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Supporting communities on improving access to safe drinking water in Pouk district, Siem Reap provin The project is to support disadvantaged people in Lvea and Trei Nhor communes, Pouk district, Siem Reap province, to enhance living conditions through better access to safe drinking water and proper hygiene practices. It is a complemented project to target communities whom are being supported by one of CAFOD partners, Srer Khmer (SK). Key lesson learnt from SK’s project implementation is that community people are facing immediate needs on accessing safe water for their daily consumption and the limitation knowledge of both local authorities and community people on safe drinking water. In Thveas village, Trei Nhor commune, there is a bottled water purification system 20L handed over from Habitat for Humanity which found with need of supports on the establishment of water management committee and capacity building in business and marketing operation to make it re-function and respond to community needs on accessing safe water. Also, With outbreaking of COVID-19 pandemic, there is a concern about people health which would be inflection of Coronavirus due to limiatation of getting information on Covid-19 implication,  precausion guidance and hygiene practices. All these challenges are critically affected people livelihood conditions.  

To support communities to overcome these issues, the project has been designed by conducting a feasibility study, all different groups of community people have been engaged through number of meetings, focused group discussion, and in-depth interview to discuss on situation analysis, resources mapping, and identify alternative actions to improve the current situation. The project objectives are:
-	To increase knowledge of community groups and local authorities on safe drinking water and proper hygiene practices through adoption of water safety plan. 
-	To increase communities’ access to safe drinking water through upgrading water facilities and increased capacity of commune and village focal points to sustainably manage the water purification system 20L (handed over from Habitat for Humanity). 
The project is proposed to work complementarily with targeted villages under Srer Khmer and to contribute to community sustainability after the project of SK would be phased out by 2022, by forming local authorities, commune focal points, village focal points and community leaders to be a water management committee and to involve in all project phases. SK is focusing on farming capacity and livelihood development, and at the meantime, RWC’s project is on safe water management and improvement of hygiene practice- It is a key sustainability of project with the strategic approach of integration between livelihood and WASH to increase community quality of life. The project has also supported communities with recent outbreaking of COVID-19 pandemic through conducting people awarenee and knowledges on Covid-19 precaution and hygiene promotion in alignment with the government IEC materials and guideline.
Co-ordinating and supporting the civil society response to HIV and AIDS In Cambodia, civil society organizations have played an important role in responding to the impact of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic, and have contributed to filling gaps within the government response. The HIV/ AIDS Coordinating Committee (HACC) is a membership organisation representing 120 NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and CBOs (community-based organisations). It acts as a forum for HIV/ AIDS information exchange, and plays an important role in co-ordinating the effort of its members in responding to HIV – especially those which focus on Most At Risk Populations (MARPs).  It promotes partnership and collaboration among and between NGOs and government, advocates for policy change and to ensure respect for the rights of people to receive proper information and services, free from stigma and discrimination.  HACC also brings together NGOs working on HIV/ AIDS to campaign for coherent and co-ordinated prevention and care/ support for people living with HIV/ AIDS, and to help identify gaps in HIV services by co-ordinating evidence-based advocacy to government and relevant stakeholders on policy, planning, and monitoring progress.  Its activities support the full range of a comprehensive response to the epidemic: this includes networking, coordination, information sharing, awareness raising, representing NGOs to donors, national and international level advocacy for change and promoting the full involvement of civil society in determining policy, setting of national targets, developing plans and monitoring process in relation to HIV/ AIDS.  HACC makes a valuable contribution to Cambodia’s nationwide response in the areas of prevention, impact mitigation, care, support and treatment.
Training Cambodian Diplomats This project is to deliver intensive induction program that is designed to build capacity of Cambodian diplomats to effectively represent Cambodia in their international assignments. The curriculum will combine knowledge and skill building for effective diplomacy, and is grounded in conflict transformation principals.

The overall goal of this project is strengthen the capacity of Cambodia’s diplomats, toward preventative diplomacy and strategic, innovate solutions to regional issues affecting the country. a one-month intensive program, implemented as four one-week modules (20 days total).   The course will be provided to twenty-five diplomats, selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).
Women, girls and out of school youth live healthy lives free from gender based violence and HIV/AIDS Since 2001 Cambodian HIV/AIDS Education and Care (CHEC) has worked to empower communities and the general public to address HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs) and to reduce stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS, orphaned and vulnerable children, and their families.
 
This project is part of CHEC’s new three-year strategy which sees a focus on HIV prevention for out of school youth, one of the groups most at risk of HIV infection, as identified by the Cambodian National AIDS Authority. CHEC has also recently identified the need to tackle high rates of gender based violence (GBV) in their target areas, due to the close links to HIV transmission. 
 
This project therefore comprises two goals, one on HIV prevention for out of school youth and one on tackling GBV for women and girls aged over 15 years old. Whilst the goals are separate, many of the activities will be linked and there will be some beneficiaries that are supported by both areas of the project. 
 
On HIV prevention, this project will provide information, life skills development and HIV prevention services and commodities to out of school youth, using youth prevention approaches and effective models of behaviour change communication. Prevention messaging will have a specific focus on gender issues which are inherent to HIV and AIDS risk and prevention in Cambodia and link directly with GBV. Activities will take place in 7 districts: Sa Ang, Ta Khmao, Boribo, Kampong Tralach, Chhouk, Preah Sdach and Srey Santhor. 
 
Concerning GBV, this project will target women, men, youth and government bodies using behaviour change communication (e.g. through leaflets, posters, booklets, community forums, campaigns and youth clubs) to raise awareness, knowledge and prevent and/or change gender inequitable and violent behaviour. CHEC will also provide counselling models for victims and perpetrators, and for enforcement of laws. Referral services to other sectors will help address the needs of women and girls who have survived GBV. CHEC will work closely with government bodies, including Commune Councils for Women and Children, to build their capacity to prevent and respond to GBV. The activities will take place in 4 districts: Kampong Tralach, Sa Ang, Chhouk and Preah Sdach.  
 
Overall, this project aims to improve the quality of life for two vulnerable populations in the above named rural districts in Cambodia.
Indigenous people’s natural resources management, disaster risk reduction and livelihoods programme Development and Partnership in Action (DPA) aims to empower and support ethnic minorities, indigenous and vulnerable communities in 29 villages in the remote provinces of Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri, so they can take the lead in their own development process, and improve their living conditions through sustainable management of natural resources and improved livelihoods.  

The project is designed to reach 8,808 indigenous people, including 3,867 women within the 29 villages and 10 communes located in 6 districts of Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri. They are being helped to protect their forest and land resources and manage sustainably, and obtain secure tenure of their land.  Training and resources are made available so they can plan to use their land and resources sustainably and to consolidate their food security through improved farming techniques, crop diversification and irrigation, fish culture, and better care of livestock.  They will also be supported to develop plans to reduce their vulnerability to climate change and disaster as well as to develop other sources of income.  Community members are also supported to become active citizens, more aware of their rights and how to access resources from the government and protect their culture.

Villages will also be supported to develop water management plans to improve their water resource management systems and access to safe drinking water.
Organisational capacity development and Financial management for Srer Khmer organization Srer Khmer is one of local partners that has expertise and experiences on sustainable socio-economic development through research, training, education and community development by promoting farmer-led activities, networking and sustainable agriculture. The partner has been a key partner supporting CAFOD to deliver strategic outcomes since 2015.

Since 2018, SK has had internal organisational leadership and management issues that have not been addressed until present. The issues have been developed over time without attention of the leadership, and staff turnover becomes significant in 2019. This has impacted the overall performance of the organisation ranging from improper compliance to organisational policies and procedures, ineffective communication, withdrawn trust and confidence among staff and funding partners, lack of clarity on structures and their roles and responsibilities. As a result, their projects have not been implemented as plan and affected to project outcomes. With these challenges, some funding partners have ended funding support to SK. In late 2019, SK’s executive director resigned amidst this period of turbulence.

In September 2019, the new ED, Ms. Alyny, has been appointed by staff and SK board members to lead SR accompanied by some experienced project staff in place. They have a high commitment to join together to run all remaining projects to achieve projects’ objectives/outcomes and improve organizational capacity as a whole. However, there are still some key challenges for SK to strengthen organizational development and financial management.      

To support SK to overcome these issues, SK will hire external consultants for supporting and coaching their management team both on organizational development and financial management. For organizational development, a consultant will conduct a need assessment to develop a series of training and coaching plan and prioritized them based on their needs. For financial management, a consultant will develop areas of focuses and action plan based on the need assessment. Also, some practical tools/templates for the internal implementation will be revisited and developed. The support is expected to run for 6 months and could be extended depending on reasonable inquiries.   

The project objectives are:
-	To improve SK organisational capacity through strengthening leadership and management so that they can overcome challenges and each role in the organisation will be executed effectively.
-	To strengthen SK capacity on financial management, so that policies, procedures and reporting are properly complied by all staff

It is an added value for CAFOD to help a local skilful partner partner during the critical time. By this support, SK will be reformed and will have future opportunities to use their skills and expertise to support rural communities in field of livelihood improvement and community development.
Holistic service provision to people living with HIV/ AIDS This project, implemented by Maryknoll and known as “Seedling of Hope” (SoH), is located in Phnom Penh and Kandal.   As the availability of anti-retroviral therapy has changed the face of HIV/AIDS in Cambodia, from dying to living, SoH has also changed its focus: originally established to provide a caring and dignified end-of life, it now focuses on sustaining and improving th equality of life for people living with HIV/ AIDS and poverty, helping them to regain and sustain overall health, develop the confidence, capacity and opportunities to earn a decent livelihood without dependence on aid, and become fully reintegrated psychologically, socially and economically in their family and community.   SOH continues to use a holistic approach in providing services to people living with HIV/ AIDS and their families, with a continuum of care and services including palliative and end-of-life care, assistance to Cambodia’s national hospitals to improve their quality of care, and a range of efforts to mitigate the impact and transmission of HIV/ AIDS.
Strengthening the domestic response to HIV and AIDS in Cambodia Following a period which saw one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in Asia in the 1990s, Cambodia has become one of the few countries to have reversed its HIV epidemic, from an estimated prevalence of 2% (among adults aged 15-49) in 1998 to 0.7% in 2013 (UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report 2013). 
 
However, this is not the “end of HIV and AIDS” in Cambodia. The HIV epidemic in Cambodia has changed from a generalized to a concentrated epidemic; HIV prevalence remains high among key at risk populations, including men who have sex with men (MSM), Entertainment Workers and injecting drug users. Generally people living with HIV are now living longer due to good access to ARVs; 89.5% of eligible PLHIV are on treatment (Cambodia Country Progress report for UNGASS 2010-2011). This means there is a strong need for continued funding to cover care and support. Stigma is still very high, impacting testing, treatment and disclosure. Furthermore, there is a risk of the gains being reversed if funding for HIV and AIDS is drastically reduced. 
 
The National AIDS Spending Assessment (coordinated by the National AIDS Authority) for 2011 and 2012 found that Cambodia’s budget for HIV and AIDS is heavily reliant on international support and is therefore highly unsustainable. In 2012, international funding amounted to 89% of the budget compared with 11% from domestic sources. On top of this, external contributions are decreasing; HIV spending has declined from over $58 million in 2010 ($55.6 million from external contributions) to $50.9 million in 2012 ($44.3 million). During this period there was no change in domestic spending ($6.6 million in 2012). 
 
Therefore, in light of many development partners withdrawing support for HIV and AIDS in Cambodia, HACC and CHEC have designed this project to strengthen the domestic response. This project aims to strengthen the capacity of Commune Councils (which, in Cambodia’s decentralised structure, are responsible for the quality of government health care in their communes) to more effectively and efficiently utilise the budget they are provided with to improve the quality of HIV and AIDS services in their constituencies and reduce the reliance on NGOs and foreign donors. Aside from this project, HACC will continue to advocate for the national government to increase the budget allocation for HIV and AIDS, including the budget that is allocated to Commune Councils.
Indigenous People Integrated Community Development Project This project aims to empower the poorest and the most vulnerable indigenous communities in 18 villages of Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri province to pursue claiming their rights to control their land and manage their natural resources (forestry and fishery) which are primary for their livelihoods development. The target communities have been affected by land grabbing from private companies limiting their agriculture production and depleting their local natural resources. However, their understanding about legal framework and procedures to claim their rights and filing complaint remains very limited.

In this project, the partner will be replicating people-led development approach in order to strengthen capacity of community committees to be able to take leadership to respond to emerging issues. The partner will be working closely with community committees to develop their understanding on legal framework, their roles and responsibilities, and government mechanisms that they can use to solve land disputes and issues of natural resources management. The communities will also be facilitated to complete legal procedures to register their land and their community forestry and fishery so that they will be protected by law. To respond to immediate needs of the poor, community people will also be supported to practice climate-friendly and diversified agriculture. Farmers will form themselves into groups and learn to collectively sell their products for better profits. The partner will help coordinate the farmer groups to develop capacity to run agriculture cooperative and legally register so that they can claim more support from the government ministry.

It is expected that the indigenous communities will understand about their rights, and make more engagement with existing legal framework, procedures, and mechanisms that enable them to claim their rights to control and protect their land and natural resources. With clear community structure and legal recognition, the communities will be able to influence government and private sector to ensure that they comply with the laws and respect indigenous people rights. The community people will also be able to develop diversified and sustainable livelihoods through farming on their protected land, and benefiting from forestry and fishery resources.
Partner capacity development This project is to strengthen partner capacity in managing development projects that will effectively address prioritised issues of rural poor communities. This seeks to support partners on approach and tools to promote greater community participation and ownership, and to enhance the ability of partners to demonstrate positive changes through improved evidentiary process and M&E mechanism. Specific capacity of partners that will be improved through this partner-personalised training project is:

•	Best practices and Participatory project design and community need assessment
•	Development of community ownership and decision making in project
•	People led development approach
•	Result based management: baseline and M&E data management
Development project design on community natural resources management with PKH The project is to support a new partner, PKH, to design a three-year project on community natural resources management of community people in Preah Vihear province. Through the project design process poor target communities will be empowered to involve in project design process and participate in decision making by putting their initiative action plan into project development to ensure their prioritized needs will be solved through project implementation. 
Partner has proposed an initial study in different communities where there have natural resources especially forest surrounded, and community people who are living there are mostly indigenous groups. From day to day, the communities have faced some challenges on forest clearance, forestland encroachment, illegal logging, and wildlife hunting by outsiders and companies. It has affected community people daily needs who are relying on surrounded community natural resources. In order to understand deeply on the issues and real needs of community people, the study will use the people led development approach (PLD) that provide opportunity to all community groups and local authorities to involve in the whole process of project study  from problem analysis to develop their own initiative action plan based on their own capacity and resources.
In response to CAFOD strategy-OCH, it is an approach that CAFOD invests time and resources for holistic, rigorous analysis and design leading to integrated, multi-year and multi-stakeholder programmes. It is also a CAFOD added value that invests time and resources for local partners to lead analysis and design with community and stakeholders to ensure that the project will respond to community needs. 
In term of learning and sharing resources among stakeholders, partner staffs who have participated in this project design process will document their experiences and lesson learnt from this design process to share within their organisation and other CAFOD partners to increase design process for all future projects.
Partner Capacity Strengthening Programme The overall objective of this partner capacity programme is to enhance the sustainability and ownership of change initiatives by local communities through increasing the capacity of the local partners supported by CAFOD in soft skills such as: active listening, inquiry and critical thinking, coaching, mindfulness, human centred design, adaptive management, creative problem solving and transformative leadership.

Programme will take a holistic approach, blending both professional and personal development. Rooted in mindfulness, participants will be asked to increase their awareness of themselves and reflect on their role and responsibility as social change agents. This will build the foundation for participants to extend that to their surroundings and their relationships. By enhancing capacity in empathy, active listening, effective communication and contemplation, participants will improve their inquiry and critical thinking skills to explore ideas (breadth) and illicit accurate information that captures underlying realities (depth). Through reflection, participants will be guided to inquire further, challenge ideas and create relevant and realistic solutions.

To facilitate this process, CAFOD is investing in a capacity strengthening programme for our local partners.  This programme will be delivered in staged phases. 
Phase 1: Introduction and co-creation of learning programme
Phase 2: Delivery of learning and development programme

Additional phases will be considered based on further proposals developed by participants as well as feedback from the management teams of CAFOD’s partners and CAFOD programme staff.