This proposal was developed by the lead applicant and the co-applicants based on their long-term experiences in advocacy and engaging in revisions of laws as well as in the implementation of the social protection program for marginalised workers.

Each organisation will focus on identifying and documenting various rightsholder groups amongst their memberships as broken down in the last paragraph below. The organisations will then create awareness of the law as well as strengthen the groups’ capacities to join in the advocacy processes of revising the law.

CFSWF as a lead-applicant will focus on identifying and documentation of the rightsholder groups among their memberships that include workers in entertainment service, food and beverage sectors. Under support from co-applicants, CFSWF will lead on key interventions of this project that include; research/study and analysis, awareness-raising, capacity strengthening, dialogue, campaigning, and coordination.

CCFC will focus on small-scale farmers in the target communities while CYN focuses on their youth members. CATU will focus on garment workers as CICA looks at its civil servants’ members. Last but not least IDEA will focus on their current membership of informal workers including tuk-tuk driver, street vendors, and domestic workers.

The National Social Protection Policy Framework (NSPPF) was endorsed by the Government in August 2017. It led to the revision of the Cambodia Law on Social Security Schemes for Persons Defined by the Provision of the Labor Law of 2002 by the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training (MoLVT) in early 2018. This social security law excluded informal workers particularly pregnant women, persons with disability and the elderly.

CFSWF and members of Solidarity House (SH) saw the urgency for collective actions to be taken to make this law more transparent and inclusive for Cambodian citizens, particularly the informal worker groups mentioned above. This one-year project is designed to work with the government and relevant stakeholders to relook at the draft law and push for further legal analysis, review, and meaningful consultations to ensure that the new law is inclusive.

This project is an initiative of the CFSWF and its five consortium partners; Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community ( CCFC), Cambodian Youth Network (CYN), Cambodian Alliance of Trade Union (CATU), Cambodia’s Independent Civil-Servants Association (CICA), Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA). It looks beyond reducing further marginalization of informal workers in general and specifically to the rightsholder groups mentioned above.