Democracy and Governance

  • When equipped with effective skills and strategies, people can come together to influence policy, protect civil and human rights, and promote peace. GHASDO’S democracy and governance programs work with communities Cambodia and worldwide to end violent conflict and to strengthen peaceful, democratic societies.
  • Together with local partners, we create platforms for collaboration, collective action, and dialogue so communities can champion the changes they need to thrive. By sharing tools, expertise and lessons learned, we help increase local capacity to address challenges today and set the stage for a better tomorrow.
  • Our programs are wide-ranging and responsive to local needs. Examples include helping citizens hold government institutions accountable, supporting peacebuilding efforts and strengthening local capacity to mitigate conflict and extremism.

Education

  • GHASDO works to ensure that every child has equitable access to quality education that prepares them to shape their lives and communities for the better. From individual classrooms to national systems and in both school and community settings, our work reaches millions of children and young people in the Kingdom of Cambodia and around the world.
  • Using our extensive partnerships and expertise, we find ways to drive measurable growth for all students, even in times of emergency or crisis. Alongside local partners, we share research and programmatic support to improve learning opportunities and outcomes from early childhood to adulthood.
  • GHASDO projects create effective, safe and inclusive learning environments by championing data-driven decision-making, reading and other studying initiatives, educator support, wraparound services for students, and more. Whether closing disparities in educational opportunity, Vocational Training, Technical or leveraging technology to enhance learning, together, we’re advancing the future of education.

Crisis and Economic Opportunity

  • Challenges like poverty, Hunger, underemployment and financial instability jeopardize safety and well-being for communities around the 24 provinces-cities and world. GHASDO helps people — particularly women, Widows, Children, Orphans, Disablish, Elderly and young people and other historically marginalized groups — create better futures for themselves and contribute to strong economies.
  • As a partner in economic development, GHASDO provides businesses, government partners, and communities with technical support, tailored labor market analysis, and data-driven guidance. From workforce development to economic inclusion to green jobs, we collaborate across areas of expertise to develop economic solutions that protect the planet and promote opportunities for all to thrive.
  • Together with our local partners, we’re strengthening livelihoods and economies so people everywhere can lead full and healthy lives.

Humanitarian Aid and Social Work

  • When communities face instability, emergencies or violent conflict, GHASDO stands up humanitarian solutions that address urgent needs and restore long-term, lifesaving services for all. Through our integrated approach, we provide technical expertise and direct assistance in health, nutrition, protection, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to improve the health and well-being of people affected by crisis.
  • With deep experience and partnerships around the world, we draw from both local and global expertise to bring crucial aid to communities facing crisis. Building on existing strengths, we develop and implement strategies to help people stay safe, nourished and healthy.
  • GHASDO’s humanitarian response teams and local partners reach and meet the needs of those who face heightened risk, including women and children, elderly people, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ people, and people who have been displaced. Together, we’re making an impact where support is needed most, saving lives today and building resilience for a more secure tomorrow.

Nutrition and Food Security

  • One or more forms of malnutrition affect every 24 provinces and Cities, jeopardizing health and well-being for millions of people 24 provinces and Cities and worldwide. Through research, innovation and advocacy, GHASDO develops evidence-based programs and public policies to improve nutrition for all.
  • Access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food is essential for communities to keep children healthy, prevent disease, promote learning and boost economic growth. Through community partnerships, policy advocacy and technical assistance, we support global and country efforts to ensure good nutrition in times of crisis and every day.
  • In the Cambodia, GHASDO teams are researching childhood obesity and raising nutrition awareness to prevent diabetes and promote good health. Globally, we’re advancing nutrition research, promoting food security and healthy habits, and preventing malnutrition for those most affected, including women, infants and children.

Health and Well-being

  • As communities face growing health crises, GHASDO draws on more than 50 years of experience to lead scientific breakthroughs and develop data-driven solutions. From strengthening health systems to preventing infectious disease, we work with local partners to create and deliver innovative programs that advance community well-being.
  • GHASDO teams seek first to understand what people need to be well, generating the evidence necessary to address their health challenges. Building on what we learn, we implement and share strategies to advance health solutions, expand access to care and promote healthy behaviors.
  • Our initiatives bring together local and scientific experts on a wide range of topics, from family planning to mental health to tuberculosis, malaria and HIV. Together, we’re tackling the world’s most pressing health issues to ensure that good health is within reach for all.

Environment and Climate Action

  • GHASDO develops evidence-based climate solutions to ensure a better future for all. With climate change posing a growing threat to people and the planet, we help communities open pathways to resilience and sustainability.
  • From undermining food security to sparking conflict and crises, climate change intensifies challenges in nearly every area of human development. That’s why we integrate climate action into all we do. By promoting green economic growth, advancing climate-smart health care and driving climate-resilient disaster recovery, we help communities recover from crisis and find more sustainable ways to learn, work, live and thrive.
  • Communities that have been historically marginalized often face the most severe risk, so our work centers their needs and perspectives. Through research, program innovation and policy advocacy, we work alongside local partners to find ways forward together.

Protection

  • Protection is key to promoting human rights and alleviating suffering. Humanitarian crises, displacement, conflict, and post conflict conditions are spaces where we foster protection norms and ensure they are instilled through engagement with civil society organizations, governmental bodies, private sector and affected populations. We aim to design activities that foster an environment that respects Cambodia law, international law, human rights, gender justice, and human dignity.
  • Children, elderly, disabled, widows have the right to be completely secure from the fear or reality of any potential abuse (either physical or emotional) resulting from an inappropriate contact by a sponsor or any other person.

Emergency

  • When a population is faced with a disaster or armed conflict, national respondents and frontline workers are the first to respond, and therefore investment of resources in local capacities is our principled action for sustainable humanitarian aid. We do not respond on behalf of local actors, our local actors lead the emergency response, and we make possible that financial and technical resources are under the disposal.

Hunger

  • Global Humanitarian Aid & Social Development is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. We save the lives of malnourished children. We ensure everyone can access clean water, food, training and healthcare.We enable entire communities to be free from hunger. works not only to treat acutely malnourished children through a community-based approach, but also to improve child survival and prevent undernutrition by addressing its underlying causes.We aim to increase the number of children countrywide who are screened and treated for undernutrition and to build the capacity of local health systems to treat undernutrition. We are committed to research, partnerships, and learning that will allow us to continually improve policy and practice to end undernutrition in all its forms by 2030.

Health

  • Global Humanitarian Aid for Social Development believes that a different kind of healthcare system is possible for Cambodia – one that addresses all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. They believe that one day, all healthcare providers will be able to prescribe solutions that improve health, not just manage disease. The organization seeks to align the forces necessary for this change, using Global Humanitarian Aid for Social Development’ work in partner hospitals and health centers to make a broader case for integrating basic resources into healthcare delivery. At the same time, Cambodia is poised for a healthcare transformation due to market-driven imperatives focused on improving patient health and reducing costs. When patients and their families seek medical care, they often face critical challenges in their lives at the same time – they have little food, they have no job, they struggle to keep up with bills for gas and electricity. Not surprisingly, these challenges affect their health. Global Humanitarian Aid for Social Development enables healthcare providers to prescribe basic resources like food and heat just as they do medication and refer patients to a program just as they do any other specialty. they recruit and train college students— Global Humanitarian Aid for Social Development Advocates – to fill these prescriptions by working side by side with patients to connect them with the basic resources they need to be healthy.

Gender-Based Violence

  • Gender-based violence (GBV) is violence that is directed at an individual based on his or her biological sex or gender identity. It includes physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse, threats, coercion, and economic or educational deprivation, whether occurring in public or private life.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

  • Growing up in a clean and safe environment is every child’s right. Access to clean water, basic toilets, and good hygiene practices not only keeps children thriving, but also gives them a healthier start in life. People living in rural areas, urban slums, disaster-prone areas and low-income people are the most vulnerable and the most affected.

Non-profit Workshops and Trainings

  • Groundworks offers a variety of workshops and trainings for nonprofit service providers, their staff, Teachers, and students.  Our programs are designed to increase practical knowledge, enhance core competencies, and gain invaluable skills for nonprofit leadership.  We also provide individualized trainings for staff and students retreats.