Summary

This document presents a new Health Insurance Project (HIP) co-managed by the textile employers' association (GMAC) and a French NGO (GRET) is being launched and may bring considerable progress towards social security in the field of health in Cambodia. This is a three-year program financed by AFD and covering work-related health risks of textile workers and their families, thus involving about a third of the Cambodian population. The HIP is an experimental programme aimed at creating the health branch of social security in Cambodia. Some staff members of the National Social Security Fund are to be integrated in the programme and the Ministry of Employment had agreed to give its cooperation.