RWI: HR education and capacity development, 2013-2019

In summary, the following main results have been achieved at output level during the reporting period (1 January 2013 – 29 February 2020): • 83 educators (41 female and 42 male) have been trained on human rights substance and teaching methodologies. 10 of them are legal practitioners and are today providing training for future justice sector actors. • One Master Programme in International Human Rights Law of international standards established and managed by the Paññasastra University of Cambodia. • Credited human rights course, which addresses gender issues, developed and offered annually for all law students at University of Management and Economy in Battambang. • 63 female students have been provided with a scholarship to study law at the English Language Based Bachelor of Law programme at Royal University of Law and Economics. • 6 female students have been provided with a scholarship to study the foundation year at Royal University of Law and Economics. • 79 students (25 female and 54 male) have been provided with a scholarship to study the human rights master programme at Paññasastra University of Cambodia. • 9 students (6 female and 3 male) have been provided with a scholarship to study the whole human rights master programme at Lund University in Sweden. • 8 students (3 female and 5 male) have been provided with a scholarship to take an exchange course at Lund University or at Mahidol University. • Establishment of an academic network of 37 Cambodian researchers (10 female and 27 male) who have the knowledge and skills to conduct quality human rights research and to some extent from a gender perspective. • 5 (1 female and 4 male) academics have been provided with a stipend to do an exchange at Lund university and conduct individual research. • RWI's Phnom Penh Office hosted 3 Cambodian visiting researchers (1 female and 2 male), whereby two were provided with a research grant from RWI. • RWI's Phnom Office hosted 3 students from Lund University conducting field research for their thesis (2 female and 1 male), whereby 2 were provided with a travel grant from RWI. • One university-based research centre (Center for the Study of Humanitarian Law) established with 6 staff members (5 female and 1 male), hosted by RULE and regulated through an agreement between RWI, RULE and the Ministry of Education.  • 5 text- and/or reference books on human rights, including on rights of people with disabilities and research methods, have been translated from English to Khmer and distributed to university libraries and others for teaching and research. Five other publications in English on law and human rights issues in Cambodia have been produced and/or printed and made available for academics and the public. • Credited mandatory human rights courses developed and provided for all future judges and prosecutors in Cambodia, so far 217 (45 female and 172 male) judges and prosecutors took the course. In addition, 296 (53 female and 243 male) court clerks received a human rights course during their training. • Improved quality of the credited mandatory human rights course provided for all future lawyers in Cambodia, so far 270 lawyers took the course (for two years RWI and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights were providing the course and the last three years it was carried out independently by the Lawyers' training Centre with RWI providing support to the trainer).

The overall objective of the Programme was to “strengthen the environment for human rights promotion and protection in Cambodia” through strengthening the institutional capacities of selected academic institutions to develop and deliver high-quality human rights education and research as well as providing an academic platform for human rights debates and dialogue, and for strategically selected government institutions to fulfil their obligations in accordance with international human rights standards. Furthermore, the programme aimed to contribute to the effective conduct of the bilateral dialogue on Human Rights between Cambodia and Sweden.