Ms. Chandy Chea has close to 20 years of experience working on gender and development, gender-based violence, HIV/AIDS awareness, capacity-building programs, and advocacy with various organizations including ADB, United Nations, non-governmental organizations (NGO), and community-based organizations (CBO).
She joined ADB Cambodia Resident Mission (CARM) as a Gender Specialist in 2011. Her main tasks are promoting women’s empowerment and ensuring 28 ADB-financed gender mainstreaming projects in Cambodia deliver tangible gender-quality results. She provides technical assistance on gender mainstreaming to government counterparts, project management units (PMU), project implementing consultants (PIC), service providers, and contractors. She also provides hands-on gender training/ orientation and GAP clinics to relevant stakeholders and is involved in new project designs and project completion reports.
Her last assignment before joining CARM was with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), where she served as Gender Program Manager, one of the three pillars of the UNFPA Cambodia. For almost 7 years at the UNFPA, she provided oversight and management support to a five-year gender program implemented by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs as the counterpart and other 11-line ministries and NGO partners, aiming to build capacity on gender mainstreaming at national and sub-national levels and to strengthen an aid environment that promotes gender quality and women’s empowerment.
Chandy holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies from the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.