The proposed project aims at supporting the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in gaining a better understanding of the needs of returnees with the intention to effectively manage the sudden large scale population flows throughout Cambodia by: 1) Conducting a rapid needs assessment of the returning and returned migrants in several provinces in collaboration with relevant Government ministries in charge of coordinating data collection processes at district and commune levels.

The objective of the project is to support the Royal Government of Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training to implement the Prakas (Sub-decree)108: On Education of HIV/AIDS, Safe Migration and Labour Rights for Cambodian Workers Abroad. The project will contribute to the development of safe migration education modules for pre-departur education and will provide logistical support for the facilitation of such training. It will also serve to help facilitate HIV/AIDS Pre-Departure Training for prospective labour migrants.

The primary objectives of this proposed three-year project is to contribute to the efforts of the Cambodian Government meet its obligations under the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) through increasing awareness levels to the risk and avoidance mechanisms of trafficking and providing complementary psychosocial assistance to vulnerable/marginalized border populations. The project will build on the successful model developed through the Childhood Mental Health and Anti-Trafficking Project in Rattanak Mondul District.