ABSTRACT
The Creative Industries Support Program (CISP) in Cambodia ran from 2008 to 2012, funded with US$3.3 million from the Spanish government. Kuy Indigenous peoples mainly reside in the rural north of Cambodia (as well as parts of Laos and Thailand). They traditionally mix rice farming with livelihoods derived from the forest. Spiritual beliefs are Animist mixed with Buddhism. Data collection between January and April 2011 began with three interviews: the UN–CISP coordinator; the director of a consultancy company hired to train Resin Producer Associations (RPAs) on marketing and finally the director of a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) recruited to the CISP Oleoresin programme. In contradiction to the official CISP logic, implied in the assumptions and sensitivities of the project document, there are differences in outlook between the two resin associations in Rovieng. Fundamentally, this research explores the everydayness of social enterprises in two adjacent villages, in Rovieng District, which lies to the south of Preah Vihear Province in northern Cambodia.
