Wathnakpheap is a non-political, non profit making, non-sectorian Cambodian organization. It aims to improve opportunities for disadvantaged children and their families by promoting self-help initiatives.

Wathnakpheap also helps to promote children's rights in Cambodia by addressing child rights issues at a local level by advocating for children's rights at provincial and national levels.

Wathnakpheap (WP), a Cambodian NGO registered with the Government since 1997, has had a longstanding experience in community development since 1992 when its team started to work for the country programme of SKIP (Stiftung Kinderdorf Pestalozzi), a Switzerland-based international NGO. WP has its headquarters in Phnom Penh and has a Governing Board with five members.

In earlier Pursat projects, WP supported the process of localising in four districts where four project organisations were created. Three of them are independent: Komar Ney Kdey Sangkheum (KNDS), Ponleur Kumar (PK), and Anakut Kumar (AK). They have worked in partnership under the umbrella of Wathnakpheap since 2003. Only one project district organisation (Kolbot Khmer) is still under the supervision of WP but it is planning (PLANNING) to localise in 2007.

Based on 11 years of working experience in Pursat, Wathnakpheap extended the community-based child development programme to the remote areas of Svay Rieng (in late 2004) and Siam Reap province (in early 2005), with an unusually high poverty rate and outward migration. In addition, the new projects in Svay Rieng and Siam Reap Province focus on risk prevention and community-based alternative rehabilitation for children and youth victims who are at high risk of trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation.

Wathnakpheap is a non-political, non profit making, non-sectorian Cambodian organization. It aims to improve opportunities for disadvantaged children and their families by promoting self-help initiatives.

Wathnakpheap also helps to promote children's rights in Cambodia by addressing child rights issues at a local level by advocating for children's rights at provincial and national level.