The implementation of these laws, for various reasons, has not been effective. With seemingly unending rising food prices together with the drop in common property resources (CPR), it is almost certain to exacerbate the feminisation of poverty in both rural and urban areas in years to come.

As a facilitator of development work and as an organisation, Padek’s intervention strategies are imbedded with a commitment “to changing the status of women in society and, therefore, advancing the gender institution in Cambodia.” (Padek Gender Policy, 2002, p.1) As such, Padek must consciously spend more time and other resources (coaching, mentoring, training, follow up, material assistance...) on women project participants (in leadership positions or agricultural experts or SHG members...) to ensure that they can do their job well and succeed in their family livelihood development and also in the public arena (as community leaders who can make decision to access and use resources for the well being of their constituents). Through these interventions, women will gradually gain the respect they deserved and society starts to think that women have the ability as much as, if not more than, men in the family as well as in the public arena.