Local Humanitarian Leadership in DRR&ER Cambodia is regularly exposed to variety of natural hazards, such as tropical storms, floods, droughts, diseases, and epidemic infestation. These hazards are likely to be aggravated by the foreseen impacts of climate change. In order to participate with government to implement the Sendai framework on building local resilience, Cambodian Humanitarian Forum (CHF) was established in 2012 as a network of local humanitarian NGOs to strengthen institutional capacity, knowledge and gaps that existed in the relating to humanitarian response procedures and practices. The CHF network is designed to give a strong institutional platform for local NGOs to enable them to better participate and engage in the humanitarian architecture and response mechanisms operating in the country. The forum envisages of maintaining and promoting human dignity at community level with prevention and alleviation of suffering. It is a platformfor information sharing resources for dialogue to meet the need of the vulnerable, to promote mutual understanding between humanitarian and development organization through advocacy for better humanitarian efforts, to build and develop capacity for disaster emergency preparedness and response and the greater accountability for all humanitarian action, and to joint response.

Even there are more actors involving in DRM during the last few years but the country still facing with numnerousnumerous problems in applying the DMLaw. These developing problems are:
1) Limited understanding and ability to apply Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) / Disaster Risk Management (DRM) methodologies at national and sub-national levels

2) Unresponsive structures (staff in CDM structure are nominated from other departments, have no relevant experiences and lack of accountabilities because disaster management is not their main responsibilities)

3) Contingency plans (disaster preparedness and response plans / Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans (EPRPs) havenot been developed or updated. Some sub-national CDMs have plans but they are unrealistic and out of date) due to the CDMs do not have enough budget and capacities to do it and there is no strongly support with provided clear guidance from the national level / relevant stakeholders are working in the target provinces.
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In response to the above mentioned problems, with support from Oxfam, PADEK/CHF) initiates a one year piloting project to strengthening Local Humanitarian Leadership (LHL) capacity on Disaster Risk Management for Resilient Communities andto improve the emergency preparedness and coordination mechanisms, and capacity. This is also recommended to integrate disaster risk reduction and adaptation measures with existing livelihoods, natural resources management. To copewith the risk of floodand drought set to increase, there is an urgent need to improve the capacity of the national and sub-nationalCommittees for Disaster Management (CDMs) to prepare for disasters because they are mandated by the royal government of Cambodia since 1995 to be responsible for disaster mitigation, response and recovery. The overall goal of the project is to To improve the capacity of LHL on emergency preparedness to response and  recovery from disasters in Cambodia

The project will focus on three main areaswhere 1/ to advocate on DM Law at the national level among Local NGOs and Private sector, and other relevant stakeholders to capable to prepare for and respond to disaster and effect of climate change, 2/. Improving of coordination between Local Humanitarian Leader (LHL) and the Provincial Disaster Authority and 3/. Building capacity of Local NGOs and Commune Committee for Disaster Management (CCDM) on preparedness to respond and recovery effectively.

In implementing the project PADEK/CHF will in involveNCDM to provide training on how to train CCDM to CHF members and select 3 champion partners from three disaster prone provinces including Kompong Thom, Pursat and Takeo to implement the capacity development to CCDM of 9 communes. The champions will conduct training needs assessment to the CCDM prior to organize training on DRM. The champion will also assist the CCDM to develop and launching commune EPRP and integrate the DRM into commune investment plan. PADEK/CHF plays role to provide technical supportsto champion so that they are capable of working with CCDM in the field of DRM.