Youth Council of Cambodia
Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia
History of Youth Council of Cambodia
- YCC is a registered non-governmental organization established on October 14, 2002, to advocate for peaceful democratic reform and empower youth through education and training to become active economic, social, and political citizens. YCC is an officially re-registered non-governmental organization with the Ministry of Interior (MOI) on December 13, 2016.
- Using funding from various international organizations such as International Republican Institute (IRI), East- West Management Institute (EWMI), FHI360, Action Aid Cambodia, Care International, and Bread for World), YCC adheres to the vision and mission with desire to see youth contribute to the development of Cambodia. Additionally, YCC has been implementing a series of programs aimed at addressing the issue 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 which benefited for Cambodia youth.
Our Values
- Cooperation: YCC works together with all stakeholders and participants respectfully to achieve the one common goal that we share.
- Equal Opportunity and Rights: All YCC staff, beneficiaries and stakeholders are given the same opportunities and have the same rights regardless of gender, status, race, religion, or skin color.
- Independence: YCC is a self-governing institution which shapes its own policies, objectives, and programs.
- Transparency: YCC will operate an open anti-corruption policy in all its processes and has zero tolerance for such practices.
- Positive change: YCC will continually work towards bettering the lives of vulnerable Cambodian youth.
- Participation: YCC encourages youths to become active members in all aspects of Cambodian society.
- Justice: All YCC’s program participants will be treated fairly and YCC will be committed to ensuring that Cambodian society becomes more open and equal for all citizens.
- Neutral: YCC has never, and will never, be affiliated with one particular political party nor be influenced to stray from its mission, vision, objectives and goals.
- Responsibility: YCC is responsible for using all donated money appropriately and in accordance with the wishes of the donor. YCC has a duty of care for the vulnerable youth whilst they are participating in our programs as outlined in our child protection policy
YCC capacity statement
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
Where we work
- YCC works in urban and remote areas with youth and women
(aged 15-35) who are marginalized by occupation or denied multiple rights. - YCC work in urban and remote areas with youth who are from an indigenous, high school and university.
- YCC is currently working in 13 provinces plus Phnom Penh municipality. YCC head office is in Phnom Penh.
ABOUT US
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.
Mission
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.
Goal
To coordinate the mechanisms for 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.
Strategic Direction
- Strategic Objective 1: Disaster Risk Reduction, climate Change mitigation, and national resource management.
- Strategic Objective 2: Entrepreneurship, socio-economic right, and community-based business development.
- Strategic Objective 3: Quality of Education, technology, and skill development.
- Strategic Objective 4: Civic Engagement, public service delivery, human right, and inclusive political environment.
- Strategic Objective 5: Peaceful building, international relationship, and future leadership.
Senior Management Team
Mr. Im Sothy
Executive Director
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
Mr. Phiek Sina
Program Director
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
Ms. Rufa Fernando
Finance and Admin Director
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
Board Directors
Mr. Som Chanrathana
Mr. Tek Vannara
Ms. Kun
Tea
Mr. Sot
Rin
Program
Youth Entrepreneurship Network (YEN)
Goal:
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.
Specific Objectives:
- Women and youth could have better access to basic financial service to support their livelihood and build assets to offset shocks.
- Fostering women and youth entrepreneurship and enhancing the productivity of women and youth owned enterprise.
- Women and youth empowerment in decision making, taking leadership role, and influencing.
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
Youth Empowerment for
Democracy and governance (YEDG)
Goal:
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.
Specific Objectives:
- To build youth capacity to be agents of positive change in the society through civic participation addressing the policy, social and economic concerns.
- Empower women and youth to strengthen the allocation and use of budgets and the delivery of local public services through improved access and use of information and citizen-led monitoring of budgets and the performance of Sub-National Administrations (SNAs).
- Youth capacity is built to be an agent of positive change in the community through civic engagement that affects their lives.
The program will focus on
- The Advance Democracy Seminar (ADS) Training comprises of good governance, democracy leadership, and team building. Participants who are youth network members will receive ADS training and be able to put this knowledge into practice. The assignment in the ADS training will encourage young people to work in teams in funding raising activities and submitting petitions to Commune Councillors. These are examples of community development ideas that young people can use to generate possible future projects and initiatives.
- Recently, youth clubs have been formed. They work in groups to benefit their community. Various trainings will be given by Provincial Representatives to youth club members through their monthly meetings. The knowledge received from the trainings will strengthen their capacity to engage and mobilize citizens in community development activities. Also, youth networks will work on the real needs of the community through group discussion to identify the issues in their community. Additionally, through this facilitation of the community development projects, youth will be able to exchange their knowledge and experience with one another, providing sustainable youth participation in community development activities. Moreover, through this activity, youth will be able to contribute to the development of their community more effectively as a group rather than as an individual.
- The grassroots advocacy competition will develop capacity of YCC’s youth network members and community youth through different training sessions. Moreover, the competition designed in this activity will allow youth to translate their knowledge into real practices. This competition will also provide them with space for personal development, taking their own challenges and improving their leadership capacity.
- The Annual Youth Conference is a significant activity that provides motivation to youth network members in different provinces as well as a venue for capacity development. Through different programs designed within this project, youth are provided an opportunity for sharing experiences and can learn from one another about their work and development processes in their respective provinces. Additionally, they can learn from experts in the field through training and distinguished guest speakers. The experience and knowledge gained during this conference will be able to be taken back to their respective provincial areas and further develop their capacity.
- Holding a Youth Representative Election is the most effective way to reach the objective 3. This activity will consist of mainstreaming the National Youth Policy at the grassroots level, meeting with Local Authorities and electing a Commune Youth Representative in communes. YCC will cooperate with Commune Councillors to conduct this activity. Once a Youth Representative has been elected, the youth voice will be strengthened at the local level as the elected representative would be involved in development work and meetings within the commune. Additionally, a Commune Youth Representative would serve as a link between young people, citizens, and Local Authority. This provides the opportunity for citizens and young people to voice their concerns to their Commune Youth Representative and they will bring these issues to the Local authority for discussion.
Future Youth Leadership
Goal:
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.
Specific Objectives:
- Improving multi-parties youth’s own skills in leadership, campaigning, messaging, strategic planning, and policy development to foster a more competitive political landscape for Cambodia’s democracy.
- Increasing engagement of interparty and intraparty interactions between party youth members of Cambodia’s political parties in consensus and trust building dialogues.
- To undertake research into policies and practices relating to democracy, human rights and other issues affecting Cambodian Youth, and share information with youth clubs.
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.
Youth Action in Education Strengthening (YAS)
Goal:
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.
Specific Objectives:
- Youth and women have improved access to quality education and technology training which incorporates resilient local life skill.
- Youth, especially girls from Cham communities, better access inclusive education in a way that improves their employability skills.
- Youth Civil Society Organizations are empowered to find community-based solutions to vulnerable youth social and economic exclusion, to promote vocational training, career orientation and employability.
- Youth are empowered to promote their right to social and economic inclusion, raising girls voices.
Youth Peace Building and
International Cooperation (YPBI)
Goal:
To advance reconciliation following atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia by supporting ongoing transitional justice and reconciliation needs.
Specific Objectives:
- To strengthen the capacity of youth-led groups to assist families of Khmer Rouge victims in developing resilience and healing from trauma.
- To increase awareness of the atrocities by the Khmer Rouge, the reasons and root cause of their rise to power, and ensuring future atrocities are prevented.
- To enhance restoration of relationships across generations, between citizens and government, and between local communities that experienced direct and indirect violence.
Youth for Environment Strengthening (YES)
Goal:
To build proactive partnerships between youth, civil society, and local authorities to act on climate change impacts, environmental protection, and disaster risk reduction DRR.
Specific Objectives:
- Digital environmental education programmes for youth): Gender sensitive digital environmental education programmes (EEP) for youth are created and adjusted to the needs of ASEAN Member States; digital environmental education program for youth):
- Youth-led initiatives and actions): Participatory spaces and resources are available for ASEAN youth to act on climate change, environmental protection and DRR locally and to cooperate with CSOs and local authorities in green and inclusive sustainable development and reducing climate-related and disaster risks;
- Youth mobilization and advocacy): 400 ASEAN youth (50% girls/women, 5% LGBTQ+) are mobilized to carry out evidenced-based local, national, and global advocacy through the ASEAN Green Generation Network (AGGN).
Partners
School of political science
Youth Network
News
Story
Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia
Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia. Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia
Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia
Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia. Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia
Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia
Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia. Work With You, For Youth And For Sustainable Development Of Cambodia
Story
Video
Publication
- Staff Policy
- Gender Policy
- IT policy
- Child protection Policy
- Annual Report
- Strategic Plan
Research
Action Calendar
Job Opportunity
Youth Council of Cambodia
Local partnership job
Gallery
