Protecting Children From Online Grooming: Cross-cultural, Qualitative and Child-centred Data to Guide Grooming Prevention and Response: Cambodian Data Snapshot

This report presents country level analyses and outcomes for Cambodia as part of a seven-country study of children and young people’s experiences of interacting with unknown others online. The research project was undertaken by the Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University (Y&R), in partnership with Save the Children, and funding from the Tech Coalition’s Safe Online Research Fund. In this project, children and young people from Australia, Cambodia, Colombia, Finland, Philippines, Kenya and South Africa, took part in workshop consultations, facilitated in-country by local partner organisations and in Australia by Y&R. The analysis of the data generated by young participants addressed the following key questions:

How do children from different regions and cultures recognise, experience, and respond to grooming and solicitation associated with online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA)?

How can technology platforms use children’s insights to develop effective policies, practices and technology mechanisms to prevent, respond to and report OCSEA?

How can children's insights improve the accessibility and effectiveness of online safety training programs, as well as policy and advocacy to prevent, report and respond to attempted OCSEA?