Srer Khmer-WEE in Agriculture Srer Khmer will be implementing of the Women Economic Empowerment in Agriculture (WEEA) project in Pursat province, the project will be delivered over 12 months from July 2018 through June 2019. The aim of this project is to improve women#s economic position in agriculture value chains so that women enjoy a bigger share of the value they produce. The project will seek men#s participation and involvement to challenge gender imbalances. It will support women#s collectives# access to key inputs, informationand skills and their capacity to influence positively Private Sector and Government policies and practices. It will seek to support women to use a variety of tools to document project successes and to bring this evidence to key spaces (e.g. village, commune, provincial, national).The specific objectives are (i) To strengthen the capacity of women collective groups so that they can access information, financial services, and training to develop business and leadership skills. (ii) To sustainably improvethe production process so that men and women farmers enhance the quantity and quality of their products, obtain better prices, and reduce their exposure to risk and (iii) To foster women#s collective representation and voice to influence positively privatesector and government policies and practices in agricultural value chains to create a more equitable economic environment.

The proposed project was directly benefit 1,750 farmers (80% are women) from 30 villages (and an estimated over 8,750 family member beneficiaries) of the poorest and most vulnerable households in target villages members in a positive manner and agricultural production and productivity are increased and diversified, both for food security and income and farmers learn to better manage natural resources more effectively in a way that contributes tosustainable livelihoods. The criterion of target beneficiaries includes (i) ID-Poor households, small-holder HHs (land less than 1ha), landless HHs, women-headed HHs, PWD households, households affected by GBV, HIV/AIDS and natural disasters from members and non-members of SHGs groups in the target communities will acquiring the resilient techniques of vegetable, rice and livestock production, farm chemical safety, and post-harvest management.

The Integrated Farmer Field School (IFFS) on integrated agriculture and marketing (IAM) using the Farmer Field School approach of discovery and learning over 12 weeks. The farmer groups will also be encouraged to develop Individual Action Plans totackle environmental problems such as pesticide use, health and safety. Regarding group action,farmer participants will be encouraged to form and register Saving for change/Farmer Associations/ Agriculture Cooperative (ACs) toaddress larger matters andtomaintain farmer interest in the farm ecosystems and farm development on a sustainable basis. The FarmerGroups will be given additional training to support these endeavours and to increase and diversify their production and improve thequality of their market-oriented agricultural products. In addition, the project will be mobilized in the future to increase awareness on hygiene and sanitation and resilience to climate change and disaster through promote biogas, solar installation, using toilet, pond rehabilitated and improved cooking stove.

1,750 farmers directly benefit and approximately 8,750 of their family members through improved food security, increased income, access to low interest loans, and membership and engagement in Farmer Associations where members can share information about agricultural techniques and discuss and act on shared concerns. However, farmers will have abetter understanding of the opportunities offered by improved access to markets and different marketing mechanisms. Furthermore, farmers will be able to experiment with different marketing opportunities by understanding markets better and by marketing different crops through improved crops calendar.

In addition, small holders will learn how to keep records and compilelessons learned from experiences, successes/failures, and new initiatives relating to the new business model for smallholder farmers. All lesson learned, experiences, successes/failures, and new initiatives relating to this new business model will be recorded, compiled, and published in Khmer language and shared with other famers within the target areas and the wider community.