About Us 

The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability-Cambodia is a local non-profit and independent NGO founded in 2015 that works to fight corruption, promote human welfare, and protect the rights of citizens through promoting good governance. ANSA Cambodia specializes in Social Accountability (SAc) approaches to achieve these goals, and promotes the application of SAc tools in local communities by community members to strengthen the relationship between citizens and their government. 

Social Accountability (SAc) is the concept and practice of constructive engagement between citizens and their government; citizens monitor the government’s use of public resources to improve service delivery, protect their rights, and promote community welfare. Beyond monitoring, ANSA enables citizens to voice their issues and concerns through coalition building and the use of communication and media. With these methods, ANSA is able to influence public policy and improve public accountability. ANSA is known as the leading NGO that works to promote and practice of Social Accountability by enriching the community of practice (CoP) through co-creating and designing tools.

Our Vision

With the help of Social Accountability practices that hold the government accountable to its people, we envision Cambodia developing into a country where citizens are capable, collaborative, and informed, and live in a society with dignity and freedom in accordance with national and international laws. 

Our Mission

ANSA Cambodia aims to enhance citizen capacity, fight against corruption, and promote good governance in order to improve the delivery of public services and resources for Cambodian citizens.  

Management 

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors for ANSA Cambodia is made up of three to five independent individuals who provide strategic leadership to ANSA’s executive committee. The roles of the BoD are to oversee operations, help fundraising efforts, appoint the Executive Director, and to approve ANSA Cambodia’s strategic plans and related policy. 

Meet ANSA Cambodia’s Board of Directors

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee for ANSA Cambodia consists of the Executive Director, the Program Coordinator, and the Finance Manager. As the chair of the Executive Committee, the Executive Director is responsible for being the legal representative of ANSA Cambodia, as well as being accountable to the Board of Directors and donors. The Executive Director leads and manages the team while building capacity for staff members both in and out of the Executive Committee.

Meet ANSA Cambodia’s Executive Committee 

PROGRAM ROADMAP

ANSA’s expertise is in the tools of Social Accountability, a process that has proven consistently to be effective. By teaching fundamental Social Accountability tools to community members, the communitites can develop the capacity to hold their local governments accountable for the delivery of necessary public services, as good governance can only be achieved through the active and constructive participation of citizens. 

These tools, such as citizen-led government monitoring, are applied in ANSA programs like Check My School Phase 2. As a project that will operate until 2020, the strategic plannig aspect is essential to the continued success of Check My School Phase 2. Training sessions are held for volunteers, community members, district officials, and school principals in order to disseminate the information so that inidivduals possess the necessary knowledge to take action to accomplish community-oriented goals.

By working with local/provincials departments of education, ANSA is able to gain support from the Sub-National Administrations with whom it aims to foster a cooperative and beneficial relationship for the community. 

ANSA supports the implementation of citizen-led monitoring within communities to promote good governance. Read here about how the process of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning is carried out:  > Read More 

The tools of Social Accountability support ANSA’s efforts to build a positive relationship between local communities and their governments. These tools promote government accountability and enhance the delivery of public services to the provinces. Read here to learn about Social Accountability in action: > Read More  

PROGRAMS

1. Check My School Phase 2 ( 2018-2020)

A primary ANSA Cambodia project, Check My School Phase 2 is an educational reform initiative being implemented in Cambodia after having success in the Philippines, with ANSA-EAP. Check My School Phase 2 aims to increase local partnerships with the Sub-National Administration, empower indigenous women and youth to access information on school services, and involve local community members in the monitoring of primary school operations.

Funded by USAID through East West Management Institute (EWMI), Check My School Phase 2 has achieved tangible policy reform from the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports (MoEYS). In partnership with Check My School, the MoEYS now requires powered fans in classrooms and electrical networks in schools. ANSA Cambodia taught communities how to monitor school performance using SAc tools, and taught schools to address their issues through strategic planning. Additionally, funds were raised to build toilets in nine target primary schools.

2. Textbook and WASH Monitoring Project

WASH is a hygeine initiative implemented in primary schools in three districts of the Ratanakiri province with little to no efficient plumbing. When students are unable to access bathroom facilities, their ability to learn at school is significantly diminished, while their risk for illness is increased. The WASH program teaches the community about the appropriate standards of hygiene that students deserve to be provided according to educational standards across the country. Using the SAc tools ANSA provides, the community is then able to advocate for these standards of hygiene for their children, and effective communication between citizens and the government can emerge. I-SAF Project

3. I-SAF Project ( 2017-2018) 

Funded by CARE International in Cabodia, the I-SAF project cocered 16 villages of 4 commnes in Veun Sai dstrict of Ratanakiri province. I-SAF cosisted of four components of access to information and budget lteracy, capacity development for comunity accountability facilitators (CAFs), citizen monitorings and learnings.

4. Textbook Monitoring Project 

The Textbook Monitoring project is an initiative in three districts of the Ratanakiri province to keep textbooks in schools and increase their availability for students who need them. The leakage of textbooks being sold by non-educators for profit has left a hole in the curriculum for primary school students, and the Textbo Monitoring Project aims to remedy this problem by not only providing new textbooks, but establishing accountability incentives for the community to safeguard the books and keep them in the hands of students.

The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports (MoEYS) announced the illegality of selling state textbooks, a measure which included printing warning labels on the textbooks themselves to prevent textbook leakage away from schools. The MoEYS committed to increasing the budget for improving the quality and distribution of textbooks to upper secondary school students. ANSA Cambodia successfully built a constructive relationship among citizens, local CSO’s, and the Royal Government of Cambodia, a coalition achieved through the implementation of SAc tools to foster transparency and trust. 

News

NEWEST: Recently, ANSA finalized two researches on access to textbooks and WASH of primary school students in Ratanakiri. In case you are interested in reading thise report, kindly reach us via e-mail: ansacambodia@ansa-eap.net

San Chey, executive director of the Affiliated Network for Social, on Monday said the government ban had indeed influenced foreigners’ decision to stay in the kingdom. <Readmore>

“Gambling is a source of crime and money laundering and other issues detrimental to social security,” San Chey, executive director of the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability told Asia Focus <Readmore>

PM rejects split of interior ministry: SAN Chey said:“I don’t think it is necessary to form a ministry of national security. The structure of the National Police is consistent with the duties of civil administration. What is necessary is improving the existing mechanisms so they complement each other,” <Read More

PM: Corrupt officials behind unauthorised construction work: San Chey, the executive director of the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, said the ACU should investigate areas undergoing a construction boom, like Preah Sihanouk province and Bavet and Poipet cities> Read More

Mr. SAN Chey reacted to the case of three nabbed over $ 1000 k payment >Read More

ANSA Cambodia Completes Check My School Phase 2 Development Training in Provinces  > Read More

Police Officers Charged with Taking Bribes— San Chey, executive director of the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, said that he welcomed the charges laid against the three police officers. “I think this is just the tip of the iceberg among other cases involving other officials,” he said.    > Read More 

Thrifty Shade of Grey: SAN Chey “Why are [illegal imports] not illegal at the border? Why are they only sometimes found illegal when they are in downtown Phnom Penh?” he asked, his voice rising. “It is not a mouse coming across the border, it is a big car. And every border gate, they are meant to check… but they allow this illegal car smuggling anyway.”> Read More

Hun Sen: Cambodia Gives the Utmost Priority to Peace– Affiliated Network for Social Accountability executive director San Chey told The Post that implementation of national social protection policies is less than optimal. “The policies are good, but the implementation cannot ensure their effectiveness yet.”    > Read More

Phnom Penh Unveils Anti-gambling Plan– “Affiliated Network for Social Accountability executive director San Chey told The Post that the crackdowns on illegal gambling are covered in the Kingdom’s Law on the Suppression of Gambling, which outlaws gambling outside unlicensed premises.”    > Read More

Degrees of Difficulty: The Cost of Cheating– “The result, says San Chey, the executive director of the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability-Cambodia (ANSA), a non-profit focused on transparency, is that some graduates “don’t know anything from university when they start a job”.    > Read More

 

Publications 

Social Accountability in Action 

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning

Contact us:

# 284 c, St 35, Borey Sony, Steung Meanchey3, Khan Meanchey, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

E-mail: ansacambodia@ansa-eap.net, Tel: +855 17559122, +85512445642.