CEPA - Cambodia

History

Culture and Environment Preservation Association (CEPA) was founded in 1995 by four social and environmental activists committed to preserving their natural resources. Realizing and believing that the issues of natural resource management were first and foremost the most important problems facing the country and were in need of immediate and permanent solution.

The organization focused its early work on training young activists on nature resource management and empowering forest and river depedent people on resource management. In the past ten years the organization has expanded to include advocacy on environmental rights, community-based forest management, and research.

These efforts has helped indigenous communities and ethnic minorities in the north-eastern part of Cambodia preserve their culture by asserting their rights at the same time accepting development through the practice of sustainable methods to conserve their natural resources. read more...

Ongoing Projects

Community Forestry Project

Stung Treng is one of the remote provinces situated in the northeast part of Cambodia about 481 km from Phnom Penh. The province border Lao, PDR to the North, Ratanakiri province to the East, Mondulkiri province... read more...

Community Fishery Project

The fisheries sector is a primary source for economic development in Cambodia, which is covered 8 to 10% of Cambodia GDP. The Cambodia is rich of rivers and wetlands that is the potential for fresh... read more...

Eco-Tourism Project

To increase community’s awareness on conservation and generate additional income for people living in Veurn Sien Village, O'Svay Commune through community-based pro-poor eco-tourism development... read more...

Sustainable River-Based Management Project

In the era of globalization countries in the Mekong region has tried to catching up of economic development with the developed countries in over the world. In each country in this region accelerate economic growth without... read more...

Publication and Web Page project

The information plays an important role in society development. If we look at Cambodia context it has been shown that Cambodia people has no access to information especially the medias are still limited for remote... read more...

Environmental Activist Training Project (EATP)

Students and local communities are limited in term of capacity in natural resources management; sustainable development, analysing development issues, awareness of national legislative framework and international policies, and... read more...

Staff Capacity Building Component (SCABC)

CEPA is solid non-governmental organization in Cambodia, it has been implemented several programs associate with community based fishery and forestry resources management, watershed management, capacity building of... read more...

Sala Phum Project

Local communities are taught how to record their indigenous knowledge through participatory learning approach. Villagers living along the Mekong River within the RAMSAR Site have been able to document information on... read more...

Disaster Risk Reduction Project

The people of the ten high vulnerable villages living along SeSan river of Ratanakiri province reduce their risks significantly through Disaster Risk Reduction Activities and they can initiative community helping system for living with... read more...

Climate Change Adaptation Project

To raising awareness local community, government officers, NGOs worker and interest people about the knowledge and experiences of climate change that effected to biodiversity, eco-system, the community’s livelihoods, especially... read more...