Cambodia Asia & Pacific
Expanding Our Impact
Cambodia reached lower middle-income status in 2015 and aims to attain upper middle-income status by 2030. Yet inequality, poverty, and low levels of human development persist, exacerbated by COVID-19, global economic shocks, and climate change. Abt works with Cambodian partners to tackle these challenges.
Through USAID’s Feed the Future Harvest III, we partner and co-invest with the private sector to make agriculture more competitive, resilient, and inclusive. This builds on the Abt-led Harvest II project, which accelerated horticultural growth and increased producer incomes.
Abt is also working to improve access to essential services for all Cambodians. The Abt-led global USAID Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS) helps Cambodian partners plan, finance, and implement solutions for tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria. Through the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) VectorLink program, and its successor EVOLVE, Abt is strengthening Cambodian capacity for entomological surveillance and insecticide resistance monitoring to improve malaria control. In addition, the DFAT-funded Australia-Cambodia Cooperation for Equitable Sustainable Services – Phase II (ACCESS II) is improving access to quality and inclusive services for people with disabilities and survivors of gender-based violence.
Select Work
Cambodia’s Social Protection Program Enters the Digital Age
Abt played a key role in helping Cambodia create a network with interoperable data management systems to improve the impact of its social protection programs.
Abt’s Buyer-led, Market Systems Approach to Cambodian Horticulture
Millions of Cambodians have risen from poverty, yet many still live in vulnerable conditions. The government of Cambodia recognized that accelerating the growth of the horticulture sector would bring new opportunities, enabling farmers to benefit from…
Lessons Learned from Private Sector Engagement Across Sectors
Using Digital Tools to Address COVID-19’s Impact on Cambodia’s Horticulture
In response to the challenges of COVID-19, USAID’s Abt-led Harvest II help actors in Cambodia’s horticulture sector use digital tools to adapt.
Young Entrepreneurs in the Food Processing Industry
USAID’s Abt-led Harvest II program helps young entrepreneurs develop their products and capacity, creating linkages with new business partners and markets.
Messaging Campaign to Reduce Orphanage Use in Cambodia Provides Mixed Results
Some Cambodian parents fear they can’t give their kids food, clothes, and education – a future. So these desperate parents hand their children over to orphanages, though they aren’t orphans. The children often face poor care and family separation at best…