The Scout and Guide movement in Cambodia is served by two organizations: *

Girl Guides Association of Cambodia The Girl Guides Association of Cambodia (Khmer:កាយប្ញទ្ធនារីកម្ពុជា, ''Kayarith Neary Kompuchea'') is the national Girl Guides, Guiding organization of Cambodia. It was founded in 1996 and became an assoc ...

, member of the

World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS ) is a global association supporting the Girl Guides, female-oriented and female-only Guiding and Scouting organizations in 152 countries. It was established in 1928 in Parád, Hungary, ...

National Association of Cambodian Scouts The National Association of Cambodian Scouts (NACS; km, សមាគមជាតិកាយារិទ្ធិកម្ពុជា, ) is the national Scouting organization in Cambodia. It was founded in September 2005 through the merger of t ...

, member of the

World Organization of the Scout Movement The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM ) is the largest international Scouting organization. WOSM has 173 members. These members are recognized national Scout organizations, which collectively have around 43 million participants. WOS ...

History

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and Guiding was introduced to

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in the 1930s, when several independent organizations emerged. Under the Japanese occupation during

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all Scouting and Guiding activities were banned. Scouting and Guiding was readmitted from 1945 to 1964, when it was replaced by the

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, a socialist youth movement. An effort to reestablish Scouting in 1972 lasted only until 1975, when it was banned again by the

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. After 1990, several Scouting organizations were founded. They were merged in the coeducational

and the girls-only

Cambodian Scouting in exile

Cambodian Scouting in exile existed at least into the early 1990s in

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, alongside fellow Vietnamese Scouting in exile and

Laotian Scouting At the present time, there is no known Scouting program in Laos, one of only four of the world's independent countries that do not have Scouting. In the 1930s, André Lefèvre, chief of the Eclaireurs de France, set up a training camp for 60 S ...

in exile groups. In 2008, a Cambodian troop of the

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was started in

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International Scout units in Cambodia

The French

Association des Guides et Scouts d'Europe The Association des Guides et Scouts d'Europe (AGSE, ''Association of the Guides and Scouts of Europe'') is a Roman Catholic Scouting and Guiding organization in France. It was founded in 1958 and serves about 26,600 members. The organization was ...

maintains one Scout troop in

Phnom Penh Phnom Penh (; km, ភ្នំពេញ, ) is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia. It has been the national capital since the French protectorate of Cambodia and has grown to become the nation's primate city and its economic, indus ...

for

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youth, acting as a separate association under the name ''Scoutisme au Cambodge'' (i.e., ''Scouting in Cambodia'').Scoutisme » Phnom Penh
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