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Empowering marginalised families for developing self-sufficient and sustainable development The goal of this project is to develop capacity and confidence of marginalised communities to be able to meaningfully engage authorities and stakeholders on their needs and challenges in order to promote development in their communities. To achieve that, the project seeks to reduce poverty of the poorest families in Veal Veng and Phnom Krovanh district, Pursat province through integrated development approach promoting sustainable small-scale agriculture production including livestock raising and community based agricultural enterprise, and addressing immediate WASH needs of the target families.

This project was designed using participatory approach involving active participation of the community people in the target villages of Phnom Kravanh and Veal Veng district, Pursat province. The target communities are located in the least developed parts of the country with high levels of poverty. Due to remote location and poor road access, communities are placed at the margin of many government services. Findings from the design phase showed that subsistence farmers in the target communities have faced challenges in growing food to feed their families and to generate income to respond to needs of their families. Many households are affected by water borne diseases from lacking access to clean water and poor sanitation and hygiene behaviours. Their engagement with stakeholders is at a poor level limiting their knowledge and opportunities to raise their challenges and prioritised needs to service providers, including government authorities.

Through the project, it is expected that farmers will have increased capacity to improve their household incomes and livelihoods as well as be more resilient to climate change. Farmer representatives from the poorest and the most marginalised families will have their capacity and confidence developed in order to be able to make an influence in the decision for development in livelihoods and WASH.
Increased access to improved water source and safe drinking water in Sdock Pravoeuk commune, Rukhaki The project aims to support community people in rural communities in Sdock Pravoeuk commune, Rukhakiri district, Battambang province who have faced problem of accessing safer water for their daily consumption, especially during dry season as most water sources and assets dry up. The project will increase accessing to safe drinking water through improved water supply in their communities and increase capacity of local actors to promote the importance of using safe water. 

The project has targeted certain number of the commune focal points, village focal points, community leaders, and local authorities to be the trainers, role model and project implementers on water safety plan, hygiene practices and safeguarding. The project intervention is based on 1). Focusing on water safety plan by providing safe drinking water through adoption of the national guidelines of ministry of rural development, 2). Upgrading of community ponds/water facilities, and 3). Raising awareness on Safeguarding concept into the community groups. 

Throughout the project, 600 families and 3000 community people can use the water pond upgraded by project. And 40 participants in each village, in total of 2000 participants, receive knowledge on water safety plan, water facilities upgrading, safeguarding, hygiene and operation-maintenance of water system through project activities.
Organizational capacity strengthening to Ponlok Khmer The project aims to enhance PKH staff capacity on specific and professional skills to improve their daily work in supporting the lives of indigenous people and forest communities in Preah Vihear province.

PKH has 13 staff members (6 females) and has set up its system for developing human resources through annual staff performance appraisal. After the performance appraisal in late 2022, staff expressed their capacity-strengthening needs: proposal writing skills, community-based ecotourism, community-based enterprise development & marketing Fundamentals, evidence-based research, and coaching/mentoring on the financial system. 

Capacity strengthening support includes proposal writing training, community based ecotourism training, enterprise development support, financial management and finance software and safeguarding policy development. 

Please see the PKH capacity building plan to explore their expected results from this project.
HIV/AIDS education and care Cambodian HIV/AIDS Education and Care (CHEC) works to empower communities and the general public to address HIV/ AIDS, TB and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs), and to reduce stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/ AIDS and their families, including orphans and vulnerable children, and help them achieve a sense of self-reliance and dignity.  This project covers Kampong Chhnang, Kandal, Prey Veng, Kampot, and Kampong Cham provinces.  It promotes universal access to care and treatment, and seeks to ensure the availability of medicines and strengthen HIV prevention.  CHEC’s direct support to people living with HIV/ AIDS includes helping them to access resources, in terms both of materials and skills development, to enable them to improve their quality of life.  It aims to build up community capacity to support people affected by HIV/ AIDS through training in home-based care, mentoring, and support to community action groups and other structures working with HIV/ AIDS.  Training and education on HIV/ AIDS is provided for community groups, health workers and NGO staff, and CHEC hopes in future to provide training services also to government sectors.  CHEC works with the media and public fora to raise awareness among the general public, discourage risky sexual practices, and generally improve knowledge about HIV/ AIDS.  Community trainers and focal persons are mobilised to improve knowledge and awareness of HIV/ AIDS, particularly among young people and women: under this project they are specifically aiming to train 396 peer educators, through whom the message should be able to reach 622 villages.  Training and support is also given to improve the capacity of 120 community action groups (involving 1,465 individuals) in seven target districts: these groups provide care and support and prevention education in relation to HIV and AIDS within their communities, and act as human resources for local authorities to deliver community education and counselling on HIV/AIDS,TB and STIs and on anti-retroviral therapy.  125 police, district and commune officers are being trained on HIV-related human rights.  Training in income-generation skills is given to 100 people living with HIV/ AIDS and children caring for HIV-affected relatives.  Finally, CHEC aims to mobilise 1,500 community members and young people to attend community fora on HIV and AIDs awareness and rights.
Promoting Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) in Kandal province This is a two-year project which aims to increase access of rural Cambodians in Kandal Stoeung district, Kandal province to improved sanitation and to promote proper hygienic practices. The project is designed to improve hygiene through changed behaviours by promoting context-based sustainable practices in improved latrines, hand-washing with soap at critical times, drinking only safe water and environmental hygiene in 37 villages of Kandal Stoeung district.
Building capacity and resilience through promoting and strengthening WASH Water Resource Management The project seeks to build capacity of local communities, WASH management committee, women groups, school children, and government agencies on WASH practices in Siem Reap and Battambang Provinces. it will be implemented in 2 primary schools, 8 villages, 3 communes, and 2 districts, 2 provinces. There are 1, 776 beneficiaries which included 260 HHs, 806 women, 430 men, 250 school girls and 150 school boys reached by project direct and indirectly. Project will increase improved water sources for all year-round in communities and schools and will promotes improving the quality of an existing water source facilities and new improved water supply. it will promote communities to access to potable drinking water by using household and school technologies and material including safe water containers and effective water treatment. To generate sanitation demand and strengthen the supply of sanitation products and service at scale, leading to improved health for people in villages and schools through CLTS (Community Led Total Sanitation), BCC (Behaviour Change Communication), Sanitation Marketing (SM) and PHAST (Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation) tools. Project will promote in the WASH programming support for sanitation infrastructure, the promotion of behaviour change, and creation of an enabling participation of right holders, duty bearers, and private sector to stop open defecation. Project will also promote the hygiene practices with the greatest demonstrated impact on health, including hand washing with soap at critical times especially before eating and after using toilets; safe disposal and management of excreta; and improving household water storage, handling and treatment. The promotion of gender changes roles will increase the roles of women in social WASH activities and decision making process. By the end of project, people in village and schools have increased access to potable drinking water, have access to improved sanitation and hygiene to protect themselves from water related diseases. The project participants have increased and have gained more WASH knowledge, skills and capacities. Women actively participated in WASH programs and they will be more confident in expressing their ideas and opinion on WASH and other associated issues. The government, Local NGOs, CBOs will be accountable and increased good governance for WASH service delivery to communities especially they integrated women WASH related issues into their development plans.
Emergency relief and recovery support for farmers after 2011 floods Severe flooding commencing in September caused extensive damage.  By early October 176,625 families were affected, most of whom were still living in their own homes (which are typically built on stilts), or had been able to move in with neighbours, but 17,273 had had to evacuate their homes to take refuge in institutional premises, or makeshift camps on higher ground.   In terms of livelihoods, 271,197 hectares of rice seedlings were affected and 10,000 hectares of other crops (it was unclear how much of the harvest would be lost).  1,110 head of cattle and pigs had been killed. Extensive disruption of the transport network was reported, with infrastructural damage to roads, bridges and check dams, and 11,789 m of river bank had collapsed.   Markets continued to function, but very poor families, dependent on daily labour, were unable to earn money to purchase food – the price of which had shot up because of the floods – except on credit at usurious interest rates.  Caritas Cambodia therefore issued an appeal through Caritas International, presenting plans to provide immediate relief, followed by livelihood recovery intervention, to 7,000 families in 5 out of the 14 affected provinces.  The waters were then still rising, and by mid-October 17 provinces were affected, the death toll had risen to 247, and it was thought likely there would still be some weeks to go before the water could be expected to recede.   About 8% of the growing rice crop was reckoned to have been already destroyed, and concern was growing about the poorest sectors of the population. The health risks from unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation, and water-related and mosquito-borne disease were another key issue.  Caritas Cambodia requested support for distributions of food and basic hygiene requirements to 7,000 families, temporary shelter materials to 3,500 families, and distribution of rice and vegetable seeds to poor farmers to enable them to replant their devastated fields.  Caritas is also co-operating with the Provincial Health Department in particularly badly affected districts of Kampong Thom, helping the health workers to help establish mobile health clinics and see to drinking water purification.
Project Design in Phnom Kravanh district, Pursat This project is to improve practices and projects of COCD to be more accountable to their communities through listening to voices of community people, and promote their genuine participation and ownership to drive the projects. During the 3-month project period, COCD is funded to carry out design process in their existing targeted areas in Phnom Kravanh district in the climate change and livelihoods frame.

As COCD has heard positive feedback from other 2 partners of CAFOD who were funded design process, the partner seeks to improve their practices and skills in designing projects so that they can enhance the effectiveness of their projects as well as mobilise funds from existing funding agencies and new institutional donors. The partner is currently having a project in Phnom Kravanh district funded by AOP, and the project is coming to an end in June 2018. The partner is hoping to develop a quality project that will effectively address the needs of target communities and to secure continued funds from AOP.

In complementary to this design project, four COCD staff who are participating in the capacity strengthening programme with CAFOD will be able to apply learnings from the programme, and demonstrate how their capacity has been improved over time. COCD will facilitate experiences and learnings from this design process to be shared within organisation to enhance design process for all future projects.
Integration of people with intellectual disabilities into society This is a project managed by Karuna Battambang, overseen by Bishop Kike in the Apostolic Prefecture of Battambang. Through this project, CAFOD is initiating partnership with a local church in Cambodia in order to bring closer relationship and explore opportunities to work with them in development in the future.

This particular project sets to create appropriate conditions for greater involvement of people with disabilities, into social and economic activities of their families and communities in ways that accrue their self-esteem, their dignity and the respect they deserve, are increasingly created. In Cambodia, mental disability is a taboo for most people. It is a belief that it is their karma, thus they are often ignored by society, and even within their own families. The project is working with people with mental disabilities and their families to assist them to develop their cognitive, social, and physical development according to their individual needs, and to increase their access to appropriate therapies and medical care. The project is working specifically with the families of children with mental disabilities in order to improve their involvement and care for their children.

It is hoped that the target group will have more opportunities to develop their potentials and growth to meet their individual development needs so that they can participate in society to their fullest.
Community-Led Action to Regenerate Environment (CLARE) The project is to support rural communities in Preah Vihear province, which is in northern Cambodia. Rich in resources and biodiversity, the province has only relatively recently been opened to the outside. The different targeted communities are surrounded by forests and other natural resources and are mostly indigenous groups. From day to day, the communities have faced challenges of forest clearance, forestland encroachment, illegal logging, and wildlife hunting by outsiders and companies. This has really affected community people’s livelihoods as their daily needs are partly relying on surrounding community natural resources and forests. The project aims to enhance communities’ traditional platforms, improve their livelihoods, sustain natural resources protection, and regenerate the environment.

Two main areas of intervention of the project are enhancing the communities’ grassroots institutions platforms for local/indigenous knowledge sharing and sustainable natural resources protection and improving communities’ self-reliance on natural resources management via sustainable livelihoods.   

Main project activities include developing 3 sets of forest management regulations and traditional ground rules for the 3 villages participating in the programme; building 3 Indigenous Peoples (IPs) cultural centres; designing and building community-based ecotourism projects in 3 villages; establishing and training 15 patrol groups for forest monitoring and  wildlife conservation; training on Natural Resource Management (NRM) to communities; forming 3  groups for art, dance and traditional hand-weaving; creating 3 IPs women saving groups and 3 rice banks; and planting 15 kinds of seeds planted in the 3 ha of forestland.
Information sharing and advocacy for active citizenship and sustainable development The NGO Forum on Cambodia (NGO Forum) is a membership organisation, was established in the early 1980s by international NGOs campaigning to advocate an end the aid embargo imposed on Cambodia at that time. Since then, the NGO Forum has continued to evolve in response to changing internal and external conditions framing the development of Cambodia.

The NGO Forum is made up of local and international non-governmental organizations grounded in their experience of humanitarian and development assistance to Cambodia. The NGO Forum exists for information sharing, debate and advocacy on priority issues affecting Cambodia’s development. 

The NGO Forum has an important role to highlight the impact of development processes and economic, social and political changes on Cambodian citizens and on the environment. It has 3 main programmes:
1) A Development Issues Programme
2) Environment Programme
3) Land/Livelihoods programme
Promoting positive relations and behaviour change Implemented through a small organisation named Karol & Setha (K&S), an abbreviation for “Knowledge And Reflection On Life and Sexuality Through a Holistic Approach”, this is an educational programme aimed at adolescents, young adults and couples/ parents, and seeking to address issues relating to sexuality and relationships There is a strong gender-imbalance in Cambodian society which means that girls and women have access to fewer opportunities and wield little decision-making power in their relationships and communities. Gender based violence among young people is rapidly increasing. Furthermore current HIV prevention campaigns are not gender-sensitive, focusing solely on the emergency aspects of HIV and condom use without considering the underlying patterns of behaviour and gender inequality within relationships that are a major contributor to spreading the virus.  Through training for youth, teenagers, partners and NGO staff, K&S aims to enhance positive gender relationships by giving an opportunity for people to better understand themselves, their relationships and relationship dynamics in order to contribute to gender harmony, peace and development in society.  The K&S approach promotes critical thinking and the provision of full and accurate information to increase people’s sense of responsibility and help them to make thoughtful choices, adjust their behaviour patterns and resist peer pressure.
Integrated Indigenous Community Development Project - Kampong Thom This project is a continuation of KAM083 aiming to strengthen capacity of Kuy Indigenous communities and smallholder farmers to be able to get control of their land and natural resources, and to improve their household incomes and food security. The project has finished its first 3-year cycle, and the partner has successfully secured institutional funding from UKAID and SCIAF for the next 3 years. However, the partner has to respond to several requirements of UKAID before being able to use the fund.

During this transitional 10-month period, CAFOD will use this funding to allow DPA to continue essential project activities with the communities as well as to give DPA space and time to consolidate what they have built over the past 3 years in order to review and improve quality of different project components. Within this period, DPA will be carrying out capacity assessments with communities and develop action plans to be included in the UKAID programme.

Assessments and studies to be carried during the project period include:
- assessment of internal governance and management of agriculture groups and cooperatives and their ability to function independently
- assessment of internal governance and management of self-help groups and provision of savings and loans
- value chain analysis and market assessment
- safeguarding mapping of selected school project sites to practice fishponds and WASH
- carrying out hydrology study for piped and dispensed water, wells, and canals
Integrated Community Development project design This project is to encourage DPA to adopt some good practices in project design specifically for Integrated Community Development with the Indigenous communities. It is also to increase communities' influence on project design and build ownership and control over the project. It is expected that by the end of the this six-month project, DPA will be able to demonstrate quality project proposal that clearly links learnings and builds upon progress on projects that they have implemented in Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri communities. The project will then have clear documentation on baseline, M&E framework so that evidence of changes becomes concrete.
Empowering farmer groups towards livelihood improvement through sustainable agriculture in Pursat The project is to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable rural households through sustainable agriculture and to strengthen relationships in Pursat through capacity building to small-scale farmers to innovate and adapt agricultural techniques in order to improve their food security through SRI and Saving for Change. The project will build the capacity of four farmer associations, supporting them to function more effectively and to act on community concerns. Members of farmer associations will be supported to work with other farmers in the community to increase and diversify agricultural production and to improve the quality of market-oriented agricultural products.
Cambodia Programme framework workshop As the Cambodia strategy paper has been approved, this workshop is conducted to bring Cambodia partners together to consult on programme framework, in response to the strategy. The purpose of the workshop is to:
- Define a framework including outcomes and indicators for Cambodia programme
- Identify future partnership with partners as well as capacity needs
Integral care of the sick and their families The overall objective of the project is to provide consultation and treatment on primary health care free of charge to poor and vulnerable people in the target areas and to contribute to reduce poverty and enhance Cambodian health status. In cooperation with Provincial Health Departments and relevant health facilities, the project seeks to build capacity of the vulnerable groups through education on primary health care, and assist them to make use of different health related resources available within the communities.