23-28 September 2019

United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC),

Bangkok, Thailand

2019 KOICA-ESCAP Fellowship Programme

Capacity Building on Drought Monitoring and

Early Warning

Contents

1. Country’s Profile and Status quo of Urban Development

2. Organization Role and Structure

3. Major Drought Issue

4. Government Policy and Strategy

5. Expectation for the programme and other subjects

-Land Area: 181.035 km2

-Population: 15.3 million (2019)

-Population Density 86/km2

-Population growth rate: 1.2%

-GDP Annual Growth Rate 7.5%

-GDP per capita 1205.3USD

-80% of population is living in

rural area with 72.8 engaged in

agriculture.

-Households engaged in agricultural activities in

the country totaled to

2.6 million.

-Household Agriculture:2.1 million

➢ Cambodia Overview

Country’s Profile

MAFF Organization chart

Department of Planning and Statistics

District of

Agriculture

DPS (Agricultural Statistics

Bureau)

General Directorate

of Agriculture

General Directorate of Rubber

Forestry Administration

Provincial Department

of Agriculture

National Institute of Statistics

Fishery Administration

General Directorate of Animal

Health and Production

MOWRAM

Produces crop

information

Produces Rubber

statistics

Produces forest

cover statistics

Produces fish

eries statistics

Produces Meteo

statistics

Produces

Admin

report on

agriculture

Produces A

gricultural

Statistics

Produces animal

statistics

Produces Populatio

n, GDP statistics

➢ Cambodia’s Key Agricultural Statistics

Data Collection

Type of drought issues Challenges

Meteorological drought when precipitation departs from the long

-term normal

when the actual rainfall distribution in an ar

ea is less than average rainfall

Lack of rainfall

Agricultural drought when there is insufficient soil moisture to meet

the needs of a particular crop at a particular

time

Lack of moisture in the soil where

crops grow

Hydrological drought when deficiencies occur in surface and

subsurface water supplies

Low levels of water in lakes and

reservoir

Socioeconomic drought when human activities are affected by reduced

precipitation and related water availability

Water shortages in drinking and

running water

Major Drought Issue

Government Policy and Strategy

The vision, mission and goals were formulated based on the analysis of institutional capacity,

observed climate change

impacts and climate change projections:

Vision: Cambodia develops towards a green, low-carbon, climate- resilient, equitable sustainable

and knowledge-based society.

Mission: Creating a national framework for engaging the public, private sector, civil society

organizations and development partners in a participatory process for responding to climate

change to support sustainable development.

Goals:

• Reducing vulnerability to climate change impacts of people, in particular the most vulnerable,

and critical systems (natural and societal);

• Shifting towards a green development path by promoting low-carbon development and

technologies;

• Promoting public awareness and participation in climate change response actions.

Government Policy and Strategy

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has identified strategic objectives:

1. Promote climate resilience through improving food, water and energy security;

2. Reduce sectoral, regional, gender vulnerability and health risks to climate change impacts;

3. Ensure climate resilience of critical ecosystems (Tonle Sap Lake, Mekong River, coastal ecos

ystems, highlands, etc.), biodiversity, protected areas and cultural heritage sites;

4. Improve capacities, knowledge and awareness for climate change responses;

5. Promote adaptive social protection and participatory approaches in reducing loss and damage

due to climate change;

6. Strengthen institutions and coordination frameworks for national climate change responses; and

7. Strengthen collaboration and active participation in regional and global climate change processes.

Rice Cultivated Area risk by DroughtDrought 4 August – 10 August 2019Drought 10 August – 16 August 2019Drought 16 August – 22 August 2019Drought 22 August – 28 August 2019

NAIS

Collaboration with Korean organization

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry a

nd Fisheries (MAFF) cooperates

with the Ministry of Agriculture Fo

od and Rural Affaire of the Repub

lic Korean, and Korea Agency of

Education, Promotion and Inform

ation Service (EPIS) established t

he system on “National Agri-Food

Information System” in 2015.

Expectation

Programmes Issue Expectation

Methodology to Build up an Action Plan Build up knowledge on drought monitoring

Disaster Prevention in National Territorial and City

Planning

Preparedness and Actions during and after drought

National Drought Management Policy

Institution

Achieve national policy in drought disaster management

Action Plan Preparation To ensure on Plan action to minimize drought damage.