Create and support local networks: Friends-International was instrumental in launching the Street Children Working Group in Phnom Penh and is currently leading the Substance User Working Group in Cambodia.

Participate and develop international networking: Friends-International is a partner of the Child Support Network. It is also working with the Consortium for Street Children, Forum (network of organizations working in the field of drugs) and is establishing its own network of organizations working in the field of street children: The Street Children Network.

Participation to international forums: Friends-International participates in various international conferences (including: Drugs, AIDS, Child Rights) and facilitates international workshops (Inter-Regional Co-operation: “To Develop a Common Response to Drug use and its Consequences” supported by DOH-International and the European Commission). Friends-International with Mith Samlanh represented Cambodia at the UN Special Session on Children (2002).

Advocacy campaigns: Friends-International is designing international advocacy campaigns on Child Protection and is managing a specific web site to promote child-safe tourism (www.childrights-cambodia.org).