The YES Award Cambodia program is designed to be a unique, two-stage grant system.

For the initial year, accepting applications will start as early as June from students enrolled at one of the affiliated universities. Each year, including 2008, the maximum possible number of the YES Award Cambodia recipients will be announced before the application process starts. However, there will be no specific allocation set for each affiliated school. Also, there will be no ceiling on the number of applications to be accepted at each school.
After due selection process, the most brilliant applicants will be awarded the first-stage YES Award. As the YES Award recipients, they will be qualified for the YES Award Plus if certain conditions are met.

Stage I: The YES Award

• Applications are accepted and considered once per annum. Applicants must be a science and technology undergraduate at one of the affiliated universities.

• Applications are processed through the three organizations: the YES Administration Office Cambodia (“YAO Cambodia”), the YES Award Selection Committee Cambodia (“ASC Cambodia”), and the Honda Foundation Grant Committee (“HGC”) in Tokyo:

• The YAO Cambodia and the ASC Cambodia will be set up in the premise of the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (“CJCC”). All applications are accepted and registered by the YAO Cambodia, and considered by the ASC Cambodia. The ASC Cambodia chooses primary nominees based on their official academic records, and shortlist them by performing personal interviews and written essay.

• The ASC Cambodia reports its shortlist to the HGC for approval. The HGC finally names the YES Award recipients.

• The YES Award recipients will be awarded a diploma with a scholarship of 3,000 US dollars at the awarding ceremony. They will be eligible to apply for the YES Award Plus.

Stage II: YES Award Plus

• A YES Award recipient is eligible to receive for the YES Award Plus, an additional money award worth 10,000 US dollars if he/she is admitted to one of the designated graduate schools in Japan within five years after his/her reception of the YES Award. If a given YES recipient has already been admitted to one of the designated graduate school in Japan, he/she will also be eligible for the YES Award Plus.

• There will be no selection process for the YES Award Plus. Any YES Award recipient who meets the conditions above can receive it.

• Use of this monetary prize is not restricted, but the fund must be returned if the recipient fails to attend his/her admitted Japanese graduate school.

• The YES Award Plus is not an independent program, but a constituent part of the Honda YES Award program.