CSOs

Focusing on the concrete institutional pressures currently facing Cambodian civil society organisations, this article examines shrinking funding landscapes, operational fragmentation, and emerging ecosystem approaches. It highlights collaboration, shared infrastructures, AI-supported adaptation, and public trust as key dimensions of future civic resilience.

Kruy Phal sits at a small store on a dusty road right next to a massive condominium development in southern Phnom Penh, selling snacks, groceries and bright colored ice cream popsicles. Village residents stop at her store, buy a pink or purple or bean filled popsicle, not far from the boulevard that dissects the fast-disappearing Boeung Tompun lake.