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Sahmakum Teang Tnaut Organization (STT) is a Cambodian land and housing rights NGO supporting urban poor and vulnerable communities to access to land tenure security, adequate housing, climate justice and social protection. Located in Phnom Penh, STT was founded in 2005 and officially registered in 2006 as a local NGO supporting urban poor communities. “Teang Tnaut” means “Palm Leaves” and palm leaves are used by poor communities, to build rooves, and walls for their houses. This simplistic name was chosen to forever remind STT that its work serves the poorest members of society.
STT started as a small NGO that focused on technical upgrades in poor communities but over the past decade, many communities have been affected by development, land transfers, and evictions. As a result, STT has since grown to produce community maps, research and advocacy in order to achieve its goal of helping poor communities realize their rights to land and housing. STT’s efforts in Phnom Penh alone have reached 270,000 people. STT and its partners have helped communities express their concerns to national and international media, donors as well as national and international NGOs.
Vision:
STT envisions urban poor and vulnerable communities receiving adequate housing, and improved living conditions and prosperity.
Mission:
STT's mission is to develop advocacy tools, to empower, and to support urban poor and vulnerable communities to obtain adequate and comfortable housing.
Core Values
Housing rights: STT believes that Cambodian people have the right to housing to fulfil their basic needs as per UN convention on the right to adequate housing. It is STT’s fundamental belief for STT existence.
Evidence-based research/data: STT believes fact-based/reliable information and evidence serves as fundamental tools for effective advocacy. They help reducing victimization and enhancing positive responses and confidence within communities.
Professionalism: All STT work and activities need to be carried out in a proper and systematic way that reflects best practices and professional standards of process and quality.
Transparency and accountability: STT believes transparency and accountability enhances the trust of stakeholders, so for all its work and activities, STT will share information and be accountable to all relevant stakeholders (internal and external).
Teamwork: STT staff believe that working and collaborating with each other could achieve great synergy and results. Thus, STT staff will work and support each other in complementary ways to achieve common goals.