History

JCI Cambodia is a very young organization compared to most other JCI National Organizations around the world and in the Asia Pacific area. However, JCI Cambodia is a very proud and strong National Organization with a great passion to provide positive change to our community.

Back in 2008 and 2009, the aim of creating JCI Cambodia was to unite and utilize local business networks in Phnom Penh. The implementations, however, did not turn out as we, the founding members, had expected. We experienced trials and errors in many projects. Soon later, we learned that JCI is not only a place to create business networks alone. We learned that JCI’s strength is with the passion of its like-minded members to learn how to lead and to change to be better.

In 2010, a few founding members managed to contact Mr. Chy Sila, co-founder of CBM Corporation and Sabay Digital, to help set up an officially recognized association in Cambodia. After researching, training, and encouraging JCI around the world, Mr. Chy Sila agreed to join and had the association legally recognized by the Ministry of Interior later in 2010. He formed a committee of young entrepreneurs and young professionals in Phnom Penh to work on many communities and business-related projects. Soon JCI Cambodia was officially approved to be a Potential Member provisional Member in 2010 and 2011 respectively. In 2012, the second National President of JCI Cambodia, Mr. Kouch Sokly, and his board of directors led JCI Cambodia to become FULLY AFFILIATED JCI Member at World Congress in Taiwan.

Starting with less than 10 founding members, today JCI Cambodia has over 200 members and over 100 volunteers run by seven local chapters. We are on our way to creating more chapters in the near future.

About JCI Cambodia

More than 30 years ago, there were efforts in creating a JCI National Organization in Cambodia. Due to wars and other political instability, the setup was not successful. In 2007, two outstanding Cambodian students, Mr. Va Vireak and Mrs. Lay Kanika, who were doing short management and entrepreneurial course at Cambodia Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC), were invited to attend the Young Leader Summit, organizing by JCI Japan. They met with the 2007 JCI World President and other JCI National Presidents from Asia-Pacific.

In 2008, together with Mrs. Lay Chanrasmey, Mr. Chhen Chandara, and Mr. Heng Samnang, they were motivated & encouraged to formulate JCI in Cambodia with the visit from the APDC team and conduct the Global Training School (GTS). From 2008 to 2009, Asia Pacific Development Council had several trips to Cambodia to recruit and to motivate more key business leaders to join the set up of JCI Cambodia.

In 2010 and 2011, Mr. Chy Sila began forming a committee to get the organization recognized officially by JCI as well as the Cambodian government. In 2012, JCI Cambodia’s National President, Mr. Kouch Sokly, and the board of directors succeeded in getting approval from JCI in making JCI Cambodia a FULLY AFFILIATED member of JCI.
 

JCI Mission

• To provide development opportunities that empower young people to create positive change.

JCI Vision

• To be the leading global network of young active citizens.

JCI Creeds

We Believe:

• That faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life
• That the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations
• That economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise
• That government should be of laws rather than of men
• That earth’s great treasure lies in human personality
• And that service to humanity is the best work of life.

2021–2025 JCI Strategic Plan

Accelerate Transformation

JCI is a grassroots movement of young active citizens ages 18 to 40 who are dedicated to creating positive change in our respective communities around the world. JCI Cambodia is one of the members of this global network.

The new strategic plan for 2021 – 2025 will serve as the strategic roadmap for JCI’s planning document and give JCI Cambodia a more relevant and innovative role in empowering young active leaders to participate in the positive and sustainable development in Cambodia. Informed by the global JCI strategy, JCI Cambodia’s vision in 2025 strategy will continue to be “the leading network of young active citizen in Cambodia”, with a mission to provide development opportunities that empower young people to create positive and sustainable development impacts in Cambodia.

To realize the 2025 Vision, JCI Cambodia has set one main strategic agenda, which is about contributing to the achievement of the selected sustainable development goals in Cambodia. To achieve this agenda, JCI Cambodia will focus on three main strategic priorities, which are (1) impactful civic engagement, (2) building competent young leaders, and (3) building a resilient organization in supporting the mission. These three strategic priorities will be aligned with the five strategies outlined in the 2019–2023 JCI Strategic Plan: Impact, Motivate, Invest, Collaborate and Connect.

Under 2025 Strategy, the monitoring and evaluation mechanism is critical for the successful implementation of strategic priorities. JCI Cambodia will monitor and report on its effectiveness using a results framework with three key measures, which contribute to quality and impact of the engagement and leadership development, operational effectiveness, and organizational effectiveness.