In order to achieve the vision on green growth, Cambodia has laid out its National Policy and National Strategic Plan (2013-2030), targeting at continuing the simulation of economic growth and environment protection, sustainable natural resources management, reducing people's poverty, enhancement of gender equality, social equality, and good governance. Key strategies to effective implement the National Policy and National Strategic Plan include green technology exchange and transfer, green investment, green job opportunity and green economy management.
CTCN Support
This project, guided by the Ministry of Environment of Cambodia, CTCN, and SSA, aims to enhance climate technology deployment in Cambodia's rural agriculture sector for strengthening capacity of Cambodian agroecosystem in climate resilience and efficiency production. Climate events are occurring more frequently with great intensity, and having impact on farming activities with crop failure or yield loss. In addition, facing barriers including limited technology awareness, restricted access to financing and high cost of climate technology supply chain and policy gaps are the main challenges.
The project aims to carry out market assessments, including activities for awareness raising, capacity building, policy enhancements and private-public partnerships. The project spans 12 months entailing two consultation workshops, and development of comprehensive reports on roadmaps to overcome abovementioned barriers.
Expected Outcomes
The following are proposed outcomes for consideration that could potentially help to address the identified challenges and take advantage of potential quick wins.
- Understanding current status on SMEs in target sectors in Cambodia and raising awareness on the uptake of ESTs by SMEs
- Recommendation on innovative financial instruments tailored to the adoption of climate and EST technologies