YCC, a youth leading NGO that has an extensive youth network at national and sub-national level to support youth participation in improving the sectors of socio-economic right, democracy and governance reform, natural resource management, quality of education, entrepreneurship and business development, leadership and policy development, and international peaceful relationship and cooperation. By 2023, YCC and its youth networks assist 78 million young people, including those who are most at risk and all young people, to take part in democratic social development activities, particularly those that aim to combat social inequality and poverty. YCC has a strong financial management system including financial policy, procedure, staff policy and a financial committee for the internal financial monitoring and controlling. YCC uses QuickBooks and Excel to manage financial statements and reports. YCC has internal control over financial transactions, with a dedicated committee that is responsible for expenditure verification. Additionally, monthly Cash Counts take place as well as Surprise Cash Counts to ensure that all transactions have been recorded appropriately. Besides, YCC also has annual audits that comply with international standards of auditing. YCC has a strong monitoring and evaluation system including data collection, entry, cleaning, analysis, and reporting. Each project or program has its own monitoring and evaluation plan which helps our project/program team to track and assess the results of the interventions throughout the life of a project/program. YCC also has end-project evaluation that complies with donor’s requirement. YCC staff are equipped with more experience, ability, skills, and knowledge in providing capacity development to target beneficiary groups and grassroots. Since it was founded, YCC has strategized to provide capacity development to youth networks to ensure that they have enough knowledge and capacity to advocate for their rights and their community issues through our approaches of training, coaching, and mentoring. As the example, YCC has formed up 17 youth networks and provided lots of capacity building to them and now they become the key actors to play a role in disseminating information and mobilizing community people to enhance the social accountability in their community.
Youth Council of Cambodia
Vision
YCC’s vision is to see a society with active participation of youth in strengthening democracy, economic development, good governance, social accountability, human rights, natural resource management, health, gender, and Cambodia’s development with honesty, peace, and sustainability.
YCC’s mission is to foster greater participation among Cambodian youth and strengthen their capacity to be an informed and influential voice in the development of Cambodian society.
Sothy was selected as 7th Executive Director of the Youth Council of Cambodia by its Board of Executive Director on 28 July 2015. He is a Cambodian with more than 15 years of experiences in democratic and governance reform, social/business development, and civic engagement sectors in both local and international level in Cambodia. He has additional experience working as a consultant for organizations such as Oxfam America, World Vision International, International Republican Institute, and Handicap International. He also has expertise in facilitating research and development.
Mr. Sothy earned his bachelor’s degree from Business Administration from National Management University and his Master Degree of Public Management from the School of Government in the ATENEO de Manila University in the Philippines.
Tel: (+855) 077 72 32 67
Email: im.sothy@ycc.org.kh
He has over 10 years’ experiences working in Cambodia for child and youth development, social accountability, civic engagement in good governance, and research development. He started with YCC to successfully implement and manage the I-SAF project (Implementation of Social Accountability Framework) in 2016. Sina holds master’s degree in Social Services and Development from Asian Social Institute (ASI), the Philippines under a MISEREOR Scholarship. He did his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP). He was a participant of the KOICA Fellowship Program on Global Training Session for Peace-building and International Cooperation Educator. He was also a alumnus Of Community Solutions Program (CSP). The Community Solutions Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and supported in its implementation by IREX. As a U.S. Department of State fellow with the Community Solutions Program, he completed the IREX-administered Community Leadership Institute and received ten Continuing Education Units from the George Mason University (GMU). GMU is a higher education institution located in the United States which certified the rigor of the Community Leadership Institute of which he completed 100 hours of leadership development coursework.
Tel: (+855) 012 900875
Email: phiek.sina@ycc.org.kh
Rufa has more than 10 years of successful experience in administration and financial management. She specializes in grant financial management, which is funded by USAID through FHI360 and EWMI. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy at ICCT College Foundation, Inc., Cainta, Rizal, in the Philippines.
Tel: (+855) 015 759649
Email: rufa.fernando@ycc.org.kh
To increase access to financial services (credit/savings) to women and youth to support livelihoods and build assets to offset shocks to youth led groups.
The project will provide comprehensive services, specifically this includes 1) Strengthening existing youth led group groups, 2) Forming new youth led groups. 3) Increasing access to financial services through financial education and linkage with microfinance institutions, 4) Provision of vocational training, entrepreneurship training, financial education, and job placement for decent work to youth who migrated from rural provinces, 5) Provision of training on C-BED to youth led group members, 6) Provision of vocational training to youth and input support for non-agricultural livelihoods and diversification of income sources, 7) Provision agri-business training on (chicken and vegetable) to potential youth led group members, 8) Provision agri-business training on (chicken and vegetable) to 100 potential youth led group members, 9) Conducting successful young entrepreneurs event and link up to national platform, 10) Provision of training on leadership and public speaking to youth of youth led group members, 11) Conducting awareness raising on reproductive health among youth led group members, 12) Establishing mobile library to disseminate saving for change concept, implication of migration, C-BED and financial education at secondary school and community, 13) organizations including local organizations are involved in dialogues about women’s and youth’s challenges and present them in at least two formal political spaces; and, 14) Establishing Migrant Worker Resource Centre, one in each target province through the collaboration with ILO and relevant government department, especially provincial department of labor and vocational training, 15) Working with provincial department of labor to enhance their capacity for labor-oriented skills to youth, and 16) Working with provincial departments to inform policy for youth and migration and Commission research on daily youth migration across borders
YCC will become a strong, independent, and responsible democratic youth network of Cambodia for a greater participation in democratic process to address issues and concerns of Cambodia’s youth.
To promote viable pluralism in Cambodia by equipping young party leaders with skill necessary to compete peacefully and democratically, while fostering productive interparty and intraparty interactions.
For each relevant specific objectives to be delivered, main components of this project’s activities would include capacity building for party youth leaders, developing and conducting a joint party action plan and project, and facilitating dialogues and promotions via social media. Therefore, the project will monitor youth leaders to demonstrate improvement to their capacity. To measure increased capacity, YCC will collect attendance sheets from each of the multiparty training courses to demonstrate the total number of party youth leaders exposed to training on Multiparty Young Future Leadership Training Program. YCC will also collect the action plans created by interparty youth leaders to future gauge the impact of the program.
To increase the fulfilment of social and economic rights of vulnerable youth with a particular attention to young women from Cham’s ethnic minority and indigenous young people through access to inclusive quality education, vocational training, and fair and more decent work.
To advance reconciliation following atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia by supporting ongoing transitional justice and reconciliation needs.
To build proactive partnerships between youth, civil society, and local authorities to act on climate change impacts, environmental protection, and disaster risk reduction DRR.
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