Asia · South-Eastern Asia
9 projects · 9 organizations
Instead of handing out free stoves, SNV taught whole villages why kitchen smoke hurts, and one Cambodian district ended up officially declared smoke-free.
A French energy NGO helped Cambodian potters mass-produce a redesigned charcoal stove that burns a fifth less wood and now sits in millions of kitchens.
A Phnom Penh-based coalition of Cambodian NGOs helping lakeside communities set up protected fish refuges in the flooded forests of Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia's largest lake.
Pteah Baitong sells irrigation as a service, so Cambodian rice farmers share a solar pumping station instead of buying diesel pumps, and a Kampong Thom community now grows two rice crops a year.
Water For Cambodia's Siem Reap team has built or renovated over 2,500 latrines, and in 2025 gave seven schools girl-friendly toilets with bins, locks and emergency period kits.
Cambodia's garment sector throws away an estimated 140,000 tonnes of textile waste a year, and a partnership launched in Phnom Penh in 2025 is teaching 50 factories to sort and sell it instead.
On Arbor Day 2025 Buddhist, Christian, Muslim and Indigenous participants planted 7,420 seedlings together in an 18,000-hectare forest that monks have protected since 2001.
From a small island base in the Kep Archipelago, this community-rooted NGO has spent nearly two decades turning trawled-out seabeds back into thriving fishing grounds.
Wildlife Alliance funds ranger patrols that protect Cambodia's Cardamom Rainforest, one of Southeast Asia's last intact forest landscapes.