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Implementing Community Participatory Action Research in Disadvantaged communities in PVH,SR, and RTK The project is to support the poor and disadvantaged IPs communities in Preah Vihear, Rattanakiri, and Siem Reap province to become self-reliant in managing their natural resources and participating in community development. For many years that Indigenous Communities in Cambodia have been supported to claim their rights to legally own their forested land and protected areas. Though not many of them have been granted legal ownership by the government, those who has legally secured official recognition are not able to enforce their rights to protect their resources from being exploited by outsiders. Some communities already have their strength to apply for legal support from the government, but they do not use it for their own development. It has shown that participation from the whole community members remains very limited. Therefore, their local natural resources are not well managed, and cases of illegal logging, fishing, and land grabbing persist.

To support communities to address these issues, the project will be piloting a new approach PAR (Participatory Action Research) as a community-led development process that involves communities in the whole process of project life cycle from problem analysis to project implementation by their own capacity and resources. Through PAR process, the partner acts as good listener, clearly understands communities, and facilitates people to have critical thinking about priority issues, analyse root causes, find out solutions from one to another, and mobilise existing resources within communities. The partner will be spending the first 3 months of the project to do a participatory project design from which community initiatives will be developed into a proposal and implementation.

At the end of the project, ability and capacity of local communities will be improved. And, they will be empowered to come up with initiatives, own their plans, mobilise local resources and work collectively to protect and manage natural resources in a sustainable manner. The project objectives are:

-	To strengthen capacity of target IPs community members to be able to develop their own initiatives, community development action plans, and to engage with all stakeholders to implement their action plans. 
-	IP people (45% women) in 4 communities exercise and advocate for their rights to protect and manage their natural resources sustainably in order to promote their livelihood prosperity, and conserve their tradition, culture celebration, and solidarity practice in their communities. 

This project also complements well to the existing work that has been built with DPA on legal land and resources tenure of indigenous communities in Cambodia. And, the partner ADIC works to empower both legally recognised communities and non to advocate for and enforce their land rights.
Community Development with a focus on long-term sustainability of SRI farmers’ groups This is the second phase of community development project of a Church organization, KBO. The project target provinces are Kompong Chhnang, Pursat, Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, and Kompong Thom. The project is to support smallholder farmers in target remote areas to gain knowledge and skills to develop sustainable agriculture techniques that enhance their livelihoods and resilience to climate change. The project has revealed that farmers in the areas of intervention have faced challenges in their agriculture such as poor physical infrastructure, limited irrigation and rural roads, inadequate access to farming skills, and the lack of opportunity to extend services. With these challenges, farmers could not produce more rice, especially in the dry season and could not implement better crops due to lack of skills on new farming technique and impact of climate change. 

To support communities, in the first phase, partner worked with different ways: 1. facilitating the creation of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to let farmers work together, 2. promoting the new technique called System of Rice Intensification (SRI) that allows farmers to use less input and attain larger crops, 3. establishing a Demonstration and Training Farm (DTF) where  new techniques of sustainable farming have been studied, and 4. supporting the farmers with the commercialization of their products by setting up a Marketing Outlet and Café on the National road, where farmers can showcase their products in the outlet to local and international buyers.  

Within project phase 2, partner has identified key aspects to be developed for the financial sustainability of the communities by supporting SHGs to be legal entities, recognised by Cambodian authorities as Agriculture Cooperatives (ACs) and supporting the ACs to develop business models and in the process of certification of the AC’s organic products to allow the communities to get a premium price for their products in the market.
Empowering Women and Communities for Gender Justice in Cambodia This is a project that will empower women through developing their skills in agriculture production and engaging in the market for their agriculture products. The project will strengthen skills of women in expanding their agri business, and support them to establish network with dealers and private sectors in order for them to have more market access.

Rural women in the target areas of Battambang and Siem Reap province have largely involved in agriculture producing food for their families and generating incomes from selling products from their small-scale farming. However, due to limited level of their education, women in the villages do not have much access to information, knowledge, and new experiences that are beneficial for them to improve their lives. As they are also primary family carers, women farmers are not able to have much mobility to look for and connect with big markets and dealers to sell their agriculture products. Therefore, the project will strengthen their capacity to improve their farming productivity and to improve their coordination and networking skills to connect and negotiate with buyers, and relevant private sector to trade agriculture products in the long run by themselves.

This project is considered as an exit strategy from the target communities and the partner. CAFOD is supporting this project as the last grant with the partner.
Capacity building to help partners working on HIV address gender and livelihood challenges Local NGOs working in Cambodia on prevention of HIV transmission face challenges rooted in the inequitable relationships between men and women, and in particular they struggle to address the root causes of husband to wife transmission. According to UNAIDS, one of the key lessons learned from the fight against HIV/ AIDS is the need to address gender inequality, which is “a contributing factor to the epidemic and needs to be addressed in the long term.”  Thus, developing community-based approaches to address gender inequity would improve the effectiveness of HIV/ AIDS control strategies.  Another challenge is how to find appropriate livelihood approaches for people living with HIV/ AIDs, and their families, as they access anti-retroviral therapy and regain their health.  Some of the local partners of CAFOD in Cambodia have integrated livelihoods into their HIV programmes in order to support participants to reintegrate into their communities and support themselves and their families.  These partners have developed some good practice in this area, but would really benefit from additional support in strengthening this work and broadening out their livelihoods options.  This project is a capacity building initiative to support the CAFOD partners already active on HIV to develop best practice in the areas of livelihoods and gender based community prevention approaches.  Their learning will be supported through development of training modules, exposure visits, opportunities to exchange experience, and ongoing accompaniment support to help them adjust their programmes according to the lessons learnt.
Poverty reduction for marginalised families in Veal Veng district of Pursat The goal of this project is to reduce poverty in the poorest families in 5 communities in Veal Veng, Pursat (Western Cambodia) through community based agricultural enterprise as well as improved techniques to produce sufficient, diversified and nutritious food. Veal Veng is one of the least developed parts of the country with high levels of poverty. Due to remote location and poor access, communities miss out on government services. The district office responsible for agricultural extension services lacks resources and effective processes to engage with communities.

The project will increase and diversify incomes through collective cow bank and improved rice farming techniques. Knowledge and skills will be increased through agricultural training as well as community outreach from district government agricultural specialists. The approach that COCD will be using is community centred, driven by the communities’ identified needs and decisions.  COCD staff will facilitate between the community and government to build relations and understanding so that communities are able to articulate the issues they face and the government will be able to respond appropriately.  COCD is also researching whether a commercial scale rice drying social enterprise (which preserves the quality of rice so that it can be stored and sold for high prices) is an appropriate option for the community according to their priorities, needs and challenges as well as market viability. This will be done through community and stakeholder consultations. This information will be integrated into previously developed business plan in order to approach investors.

As a result, farmers will have increased income and livelihoods as well as be more resilient to climate change and natural disasters. The increase in income through cow banks and improved cultivation will assist the poorest and most vulnerable to satisfy their immediate basic needs as well as provide an ongoing source of financial enrichment. At the same time, the project will provide accompanied interaction with the government, that will encourage the community to feel more engaged and confident about how to seek assistance from government provided agricultural services. It will also provide opportunities for the government staff to interact and work with communities based on their identified needs, potentially influencing their ways of working to be pro-poor both in future and in their other relationships.
NGOs cooperation to influence government policies on environment and land and livelihood program The NGO Forum on Cambodia is a membership-based organization comprising almost 100 local and international non-governmental organisations, each grounded in their experience of humanitarian and development assistance to Cambodia. It effectively represents the priorities and concerns held by these NGOs in relation to the poor of Cambodia whom NGOs seek to serve.

Among the four key program areas of NGO Forum, this grant is to support on the environment program focusing specifically on REDD+ policies monitoring and agriculture policies monitoring project. Another component that CAFOD is financing to cover is the land and livelihood program in which land security and resettlement and housing right project are included.
Cambodia CSP and Programme Review This is to support a review on Cambodia programme which have been implemented from 2017 up to date. Throughout the years of implementation, changes in programming approach and partnership have been put into place in order to ensure relevance and effective use of resources to response to real needs of target communities. In addition to programme reflection that the team conducts internally each year, this review will provide an external and independent view on strategy, Cambodia programme, and partnership portfolio. This review happens at a time that CAFOD is embarking on a new strategic framework, so this will be a great opportunity to reflect on the current programme and identify potential areas for alignment in order to inform future programme design and management. 

The aim is to develop Cambodia programme through strategic reflection on programme performance, partnership portfolio, and local country context to uplift quality and alignment to the new strategic framework on Our Common Home. Some specific objectives of the review are:

 - To assess the performance of programme towards delivering CAFOD mission and programme’s intended outcomes and identify lesson learnt for future programme management and design
 - To identify the extend to which safeguarding, gender, and advocacy have been integrated into programme and projects
 - To demonstrate achievements, areas of strength of the programme, as well as areas of improvement
 - To review partnership portfolio, values of each partner, and identify challenges or gaps, if any (for example, advocacy), that inhibit realisation of strategic outcomes
 - To analyse programme areas that are aligned to the new strategic framework and new opportunities that can be introduced into the programme

An external consultant will be commissioned to carry out this strategic review assignment with support from CAFOD programme team. CAFOD will facilitate arrangements for consultations with local partners and target communities.
Community Development in the Prefecture of Battambang - Green Diocese Initiative Rural community development of Karuna Battambang aims to create the necessary conditions of the most disadvantaged communities so that they can organize themselves and work together to obtain sustainable livelihoods. The project has a period of 3 years starting from 2018 to 2020 targeting the communities in the Prefecture of Battambang including Pursat, Siem Reap, Banteay Mean Chey, Battambang, Preah Vihear, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Thom, and Pailin.

The project seeks to support communities to develop 5 capitals (natural capital, social, human, physical, and financial) that form the basis of livelihoods in order to achieve sustainable rural development. Selected farmer families will be formed as self-help groups as an instrument to promote trust, group work, and savings among members to help each other to respond to their needs. They will learn technical knowledge and skills on sustainable agriculture and carry out agriculture activities as a group to get benefits of collective and increased harvest. Some selected families will be encouraged to diversify their livelihoods through organic vegetable gardens. Proper management of waste will be promoted so that communities will live in an improved environment.

Karuna Battambang has initiated a green diocese project as a phase 1 which lasts for 3 months and consists of 2 main activities; research, and documentation of best practices of sustainable agriculture and solid waste management. Green diocese project is a preparation for the 3-year rural community development project.
Consultancy to evaluate Cambodian programme The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the relevance, appropriateness, effectiveness, efficiency, connectedness, sustainability, coordination, partnership, and accountability of the CAFOD Cambodia programme of empowering the voice and decision-making of the poorest and the most disadvantaged. The results of this evaluation will be used to improve future CAFOD programmes in other countries.

Expected key outputs from the evaluator consultant:
- A detailed Final Report (including title page, contents page, executive summary, completed achievement rating scale, a short introduction to the programme, the evaluation methodology, full evaluation of programme (findings from the evaluation in relation to the final agreed evaluation questions), a summary of recommendation, a summary of lessons indicating with whom and how lessons should be shared, annexes of photos & quotes from participants, and background characteristics of participants.
- Presentation of evaluation findings (design of PowerPoint of key findings & presentation to CAFOD) to be shared with key stakeholders during a final workshop and other forums.
- Final and cleaned raw data, including any pertinent documents generated through the data collection processes. More generally this point encompasses the safe harbour as well as safe return of all documents or property belonging to CAFOD as provided or generated throughout the process.
National farmer forum on agriculture land law This is a project to support one of the main events of farmer campaign on agriculture land law which will provide opportunities for farmers and grassroots agriculture activists from countryside of Cambodia to analyse, consult, and raise common concerns to national ministries on the draft law.
Partner capacity strengthening on child protection This is the fourth and final child protection taskforce workshop hosted by Caritas Australia in Phnom Penh. The workshop brings partner staff members as CP focal points to share current initiatives, challenges of CP mainstreaming in their work, examine strategies for the continuation of CP initiatives, and to discuss strategies for sustainability of CP in organisation and communities.

At the end of the workshop, the focal points developed action plans to mainstream CP into their work. Evaluation and actions plans from were documented and linked in Supporting Documents.
Strenthening Partnership Toward Participatory and Accountable Governance of Rural WASH in Pursat Project’s goal is increase access to and promote sound management of water resources for improved health of communities in Pursat, by: improving access to potable water; improving access to sustainable improved sanitation; increasing adaption of key hygiene behaviours. Predictable access to safe water and sanitation expands job opportunity for both men and women, improves food security and nutrition, and protects health and the environment. Srer Khmer’s WASH project includes three interdependent pillars, making it a balanced and sustainable approach: (1) providing hardware (e.g. infrastructure); (2) promoting behaviour change; (3) supporting an enabling policy and institutional environment and partner capacity development. Project will be implemented in 10 villages in Sna communes in Krokor districts in most vulnerable communities. A total of 6,692 persons ( 3,314 females) will be targeted.
Strengthening existing groups in Pourk district of Siem Reap for better community development The project was designed based on the lesson learned from the project of Socio-Economic Empowerment of Rural Communities (KAM124) by Srer Khmer Organization, which closed down its programme on 31 August 2022.

CAFOD has considered supporting the returned budget from KAM124 to COCD to hand over from October 2022 for six months. COCD will implement activities to improve the incomes of small household farmers who are members across seven villages of Trey Nhor and Lvea communes in Pourk district, Siem Reap province. COCD's approach is to strengthen the capacity of the group committee/members on governance, financial management, participation value, business planning creation, and techniques of chicken raising by 2023.

The project will implement with 7 SHGs (self help groups), 1 AC (agricultural cooperative) and 10 focal points on chicken raising & promoting in 7 villages of 2 communes in Pourk district of Siem Reap province who will get direct benefits from the project.

Project Goal: 
To improve incomes of small household farmers who are the AC and SHG members across 7 villages of Trey Nhor and Lvea in Pouk district of Siem Reap province, Cambodia by strengthening capacity of the group committees on governance, financial management, Participation Value, and business planning creation, and techniques of chicken raising for the group members.

Specific objectives:
Objective 1 - To build the capacity of Self Help and AC committees to support their member for income generation development
Objective 2 - To develop opportunities for Self-Help Groups and AC members to increase production of chicken

Project Outcomes:
- Outcome 1: the committees of the AC and the SHGs are stronger financial management and facilitation capacities (e.g. bookkeeping, leadership, accounting, reporting skills)   
- Outcome 2: the AC and SHGs members were improved technical competencies related to the chicken production.
World Vision COVID-19 Response in Blue Nile 2020 This project outlines the measures to be taken and activities that will be implemented by World Vision at Blue Nile State level to contain the virus. The plan  is built around thee pillars out of the seven pillars stated in the  Sudan Country Preparedness and Response Plan (CPRP) for Corona-virus ( COVID-19). The three pillars are: Pillars 2: Risk communication and community engagement, Pillars 6: Infection Prevention and Control, and Pillars 7: Case Management. All the three pillars focus on the major areas of the public health preparedness and response.

World Vision has presence in Blue Nile State implementing projects funded by various donors including ECHO, OFDA,  UNICEF and SHF (WV). The proposed activities are aligned to the needs and priorities of targeted communities as identified by the Sudan Country Preparedness and Response Plan (CPRP) for Corona-virus ( COVID-19) and the joint assessment by WHO and SMoH. Existing coping mechanisms will be enhanced and strengthened so as not disturb community livelihoods systems but allow diversification within the target communities and will harness organizational, technical and operational capacities among the World Vision Staff.