Strength in numbers: some results by WSM partners in Cambodia 2023

Services related to Social security: 

1.100 union leaders and workers, of which 30% women and 35% younger than 35 years, were reached through actions focusing on better access to social security through awareness raising initiatives, basic and advanced training, legal assistance and support, research and advocacy to decision makers. 

As the CLC president sits on the Board of the NSSF, they raise workers’ problems regarding the quality of the NSSF services. Within CLC, a committee was established in 2022 to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Social Security schemes and their activities contributed to an additional 500 members from the agricultural sector to register in the NSSF, as well as a new pension scheme being implemented from October 2023.

NETWORK: CLC decided to join in 2023 SP4ALL (Social Protection for All), a platform to raise awareness on social protection and reduce citizen's concerns to the duty bearers. This platform was established by Oxfam and involves several members. They have the objective to ensure a more inclusive, rights-based and shock-responsive social protection system as part of an Oxfam project which runs to January 2024 by promoting the active participation and consultation of Cambodian civil society organisations (CSOs). SP4ALL will contribute to building trust and cooperation between rights holders and duty bearers, intending to reach approximately 1,7 million individuals, comprising of formal and informal economic workers (street vendors, market sellers, domestic workers, waste collectors, tuk-tuk driver, service workers, construction workers, farmers), people with disabilities, elderly people, women and children and ID poor households who are prone to risks and economic shocks.