The study examines the current situation of urban poverty, poverty reduction initiatives and safety net in Cambodia. It also analyses factors that create urban poverty, takes advantage of lessons learnt through programs supporting urban poverty and safety net in order to improve policies addressing social exclusion and to influence policy-makers, increases the understandings of causes, factors and mechanisms that push urbanization, to help reduce regional development gap between rural and urban areas. Finally, the study provides policy options to find ways which facilitate social integration of urban poor through training programs, alternative income generating activities, and cultural activities.
