ABOUT THE PROJECT

The project on “Promotion and Preservation of Human Rights in Rural Cambodia” aims to upgrade the quality and to increase the impact of the work of the “Proto-Ombudsmen” through a systematic training approach, including the development of new methods and curricula and the education of master trainers for their continuous qualification through training and consulting.

Co-funding by the European Commission and Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and in partnership with ISFOL, an Italian vocational training and research Institute; the project will have 72 new citizen advisors based in the commune and villages level, who were trained on democracy, human rights, family law, land law, criminal law, conflict management and alternative dispute resolution and advocacy and administrative skills, to provide legal counselling to poor and illiterate people in the rural areas, on the problems relating to their daily life. The legal service provided by the citizen advisor is free of charge.

With the extension of the network into two more provinces totalling of 254 citizen advisors, the project will further contribute to the protection of human rights and peaceful alternative dispute resolution.

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