Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)

Governance & Funding

CCHR is governed according to our bye-laws. We have a Board of Directors and a panel of Counsellors – successful and influential individuals who have a passion for human rights and support our work. CCHR is managed day-to-day by the Management Committee chaired by CCHR’s Executive Director.

The Management Committee has sought to create and nurture a lean efficient organisation in which middle management is limited in favour of increased responsibility and space for significant input from project leaders. CCHR’s success is rooted in the hard work of our excellent staff.

Board of Directors

Moul Samneang

Moul Samneang currently serves as Country Director for the Harpswell Foundation where she supports bright young university women to equip them with leadership skills and to ensure their intellectual and emotional well-being while they receive scholarships of room and board with Harpswell dormitory and leadership center for university women. She is also Program Coordinator with SHE-CAN, where she serves as a focal point in the country and coordinates the scholarship candidates to go for undergraduate program in US universities. Samneang has over twenty years of experience working on design, management, and implementation of programs related to women’s basic rights and security within civil society organizations. Samneang led the program on violence against women at The Asia Foundation; managed education initiatives that provided scholarships to girls from economically disadvantaged families; and served as field adviser for Give2Asia. Her expertise lies in women’s political participation, gender-based violence, trafficking of women and children, and girls’ access to education. Samneang received her Master’s Degree in Development Management from the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines.

Sotheavy AT

Sotheavy AT is the Founder of Think Plastic, a digital environmental advocacy campaign that motivates citizens to take action to reduce plastic waste and single-use plastic across the country. The campaign has reached more that 4 million Cambodians in less than a year. Previously, she was the Senior Innovation Program Manager for DAI Global, LLC/USAID’s Development Innovations project, where she led digital training courses and directed projects to increase access to opportunities in technology education and employment for girls and women. She has 15+ years of experience working for companies, development partners, and NGOs across Asia. Sotheavy specializes in strategic communications, video production and multi-media broadcasting, and directing impactful digital projects. Sotheavy is also a winner of Women of the Future Awards South East Asia 2020 in the Media and Communications. In October 2019, Sotheavy AT was awarded as The Environmental-Friendly Model Operator by the Ministry of Environment.

Ros Sarayendeth

Ros Sarayendeth, earned bachelor degree in Psychology from Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2002 and a Teacher with Bachelor Degree of Educational Science and English from Faculty of Pedagogy in 2003. He also graduated his master degree in Development Management in 2013 from Norton University. Endeth has experienced in providing psychological support and rehabilitation for people with mental health problem and experienced in providing training to youth in community and school. He is also has experienced in coordinate a project which provided community-based intervention to children with disability.

Sek Sophorn

Sek Sophorn is an attorney-at-law and founder of the Rights and Business Law Office in Cambodia. He got master degree in law. He has a wealth of experience working on legal and judicial reforms, election, labor rights, and long experiences with civil society organizations and has worked on a number of human rights cases, particularly those concerning land conflicts affecting indigenous communities. He was a legal instructor at a Rule of Law and Democracy program run by University of San Francisco, got trainings on human rights standards in Copenhagen, on ILO and UN standards on indigenous peoples' rights and mediation. He has also acted for 10 years as a national project coordinator for the ILO where he has coordinated with Government and NGOs/IOs/UN to put in place indigenous community legal entity procedure and Communal land titling process in Cambodia. He has lectured on Media Law at the Royal University of Phnom Penh.

Chheat Sreang

Mr. Chheat Sreang has more than 10 years of experience in development management, leadership, programme management, development research and teaching. He is currently the Program Director at the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) and is a part-time lecturer at the University of Cambodia. He earns an MA degree in Cultural Studies from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) in 2004 and a European Master in Global Studies from the University of Vienna (Austria) and University of Wroclaw (Poland) in 2007. He received a bachelor arts in history from RUPP in 2002. He was a research fellow and program coordinator at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) and has published several articles and working papers on development, local governance, and public sector reform in Cambodia. Sreang was a human right advocate at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) between 2007 and 2009 and a local development practitioner at the Lutheran World Federation Cambodia. His current research interest centers around the topics of local development, democratization, public sector reform, urban governance, local politics and development, and youth's political participation.

CCHR focuses on results to ensure that it employs management practices that optimize value for money and the prudent use of its human and financial resources, ensuring that the organization is run both effectively and efficiently - especially in relation to CCHR’s finance policy. We believe that incorporating a results based approach into the development of CCHR polices provides a sound underpinning to the implementation of our financial policy; and in program and project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Our approach ensures that we, CCHR, are held accountable to our donors, supporters, the people we work with daily and the public through the results that we deliver and impact we have. To this end CCHR has a policy of transparency and as such makes all its organizational and staff policies, and monthly fund balances, freely available online.

In this section of the website you will find information on CCHR’s monthly fund balance that covers income and expenditure by financial supporter and project, broken down into three classifications:

Human Resources
Support Cost and Administrative Support
Direct Project Cost

In additional to producing a monthly fund balance report CCHR signed a five-year agreement with auditors Fontamillas, Donasco & Co in 2009 for them to conduct an annual audit, and 3 special project audits per year.

CCHR encourages all organizations to be more transparent with their organization and staff policies, and information on their sources of funding together with expenditure.

N°	Released Date	Title
1	Aug 01, 2023	7_FUND BALANCE BY DONOR FOR THE MONTH ENDED JULY 2023
2	Jul 01, 2023	6_FUND BALANCE BY DONOR FOR THE MONTH ENDED JUNE 2023
3	Jun 01, 2023	5_FUND BALANCE BY DONOR FOR THE MONTH ENDED MAY 2023
4	May 01, 2023	4_FUND BALANCE BY DONOR FOR THE MONTH ENDED APR 2023
5	Apr 01, 2023	3-FUND BALANCE BY DONOR FOR THE MONTH ENDED MAR 2023

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On this page you will find information about CCHR’s present and past donors and supporters together with information on what aspects of CCHR work they have contributed to the development of – Community Empowerment Projects, Advocacy and Research or CCHR Core Funding.

CCHR has worked hard to encourage support from a broad range of donors and supporters for both long-term projects, and short-term project. The CCHR is deeply grateful to our donors and supporters for the financial, technical and other assistance that makes our work possible. We recognize that the majority of our support is made possible only by the generosity of taxpayers across the world – thank you.

From this page you can navigate directly to our donors and supporters website by clicking on their logo, and to the CCHR project they support by clicking on the name of the project if it appears in BLUE font.

If you are interested, you can find information on how much financial support CCHR receives from our donors and how those funds are allocated in CCHR’s ‘Monthly Fund Balance Report’ published in our Finance Section. The monthly report covers income and expenditure by financial supporter and project, broken down into three classifications - Human Resources, Support Cost and Administrative Support and direct Project Cost.