Our Partners

API sustains a wide cooperation with a great number of civil society organisations, most of which are our project partners. They are often community based organisations active at the local level of communes or districts, and they are one of the main targets of our steady efforts towards empowerment, active participation to decision making processes and access to information. We are proud of our local partners, and we view this cooperation as an asset, as well as something that makes API unique.

At the same time, we don’t consider our partners as mere passive beneficiaries, but rather as autonomous actors in the broader process of democratisation and modernisation of the Cambodian society. Their voices are important, because they represent citizens as stake and right holders. You can find more details about them and their concerns by accessing the pages dedicated to our main programmes and projects. Among the civil society organisations active and better known at the national level, we would like to mention and give our special thanks to the following partners:

API is committed to working together with all national and international institutions who share its values of advocating for positive and peaceful social change. API builds capacity and supports institutions and organisations so they are able to tackle the issues, concerns, and needs of vulnerable and marginalised groups in the target areas. Such partnership arrangements are designed both to achieve results and build local and national capacities. API views partnerships as a relationship of substance between API and one or more organisations involving shared responsibilities in undertaking an action that has mutual benefits. To ensure a smooth run of these activities, API works with its partners acknowledging the following principles of good partnership practices:

Before a project application is submitted to the contracting authority, all partners should understand the application and their role in the project activities;
All partners should understand their respective obligations under the contract if the grant is awarded;
API will consult with its partners regularly and keep them fully informed of the progress of the activities;
All partners should receive copies of the reports – narrative and financial – sent to the contracting authority;
Proposals for substantial changes in the project (e.g. activities, partners, etc.) should be agreed by all partners before being submitted to the contracting authority;
Regular partner meetings should be held in order to ensure engagement, acknowledge challenges and success, reflect and share best practices.
Common projects should be based on a memorandum of understanding with a clear exit strategy, in case either partner wishes to end the agreement.

API also works closely with a number of Cambodian Government organisations in order to contribute to a sustainable democratic development of the country, advocate for human rights, poverty reduction, access to information, better regulation and implementation of existing laws in a number of domains, decentralisation and deconcentration, an efficient and fair management of natural resources, and many other issues. Our partners on the Government side include: