Sam Sophal Cambodia National Coordinator
WHY I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT LANDESA’S MISSION:
The people in Indigenous communities as well as in many villages are at risk of losing their land because of less understanding about land tenure security, living on unregistered land, and their land surrounded by development projects and powerful people. By working for Landesa, I have opportunities to help many communities and villagers as much as possible to secure their land tenures through project intervention, scaling up of best practices, and policy recommendations.
ABOUT SOPHAL:
Sophal Sam has comprehensive experience in program coordination on law procedures and information technology for development. He has worked for Landesa since January 2021, starting from mobilization of the Cambodia team and identification of local NGO partners in Cambodia. Prior to Landesa, Sophal had more than 20 years of experience working with the Government Ministries in the roles of program coordinator and ICT program leader through the projects of ADB, UNDP, FAO, UN OHCHR, USAID Program on Rights and Justice, and NGO Networks in Cambodia. Sophal received a master’s degree in Information Technology from Norton University in Cambodia and received many major trainings through jobs in Public Relations and Communication, Result Based Management and M&E, Criminal Procedure and Criminal Code of Cambodia, Climate Change, and Disaster Risk Reduction.
EDUCATION:
- M.S., Information Technology, Norton University
LANGUAGES:
- English
- Khmer (Mother tongue)