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January-June 2006
The overall project’s objectives are to overcome its results via the 4-individual outputs throughout its operation cycle. Outputs that were designed to attain all these expected outcomes included; With a well-built relationship and strong support from local authorities, especially the district level, the project make possible to commence its activities smoothly as per project plan within this quarter. Tangible results reach out by the project within this first semester are as the following: - There were 3 temporary school buildings for the three targeted villages completed their construction within the first quarter of the reporting period. The project completed all schools construction with enthusiastic participation from local villagers, mainly the parents of children and self-help group members. There are 250 students enrolled and among which 153 are girls. The 3 temporary schools started in January and completed by the end of March 2006. These 3 schools were blocated one Phnom Spong (Kbal Lan), one in Phnom Koy (Ach Kor), and the last one is in Koh Kaev village. The size of each school is 8m long by 5m wide with 4m high. Each school can hold maximum 35 – 40 students per class, where each school devided into 2 classes (one in the morning and the other in the afternoon). Among the 3 schools, only in Koh Kaev School starts teaching grade 2 to 13 students. These children use to go to public school, but they leave the public school due to the distance is too great for them to travel each day. The project recruited 3 teachers, on for each school, where Mrs. Choun Samoeurn posted to Phnom Koy, Miss Houn Chanthou posted to Phnom Spong and Mr. Aon SamOn, posted to Koh Kaev School. The teachers’ recruitment processes were made in conjunction and close collaboration between the Project Manager and the Department of Education Youth and Sport (DoEYS) office. For future capacity building and motivation to the local teacher, the project request the for good coordinated with DoEYS to have included the new recruited teacher into other teacher training or related teaching skills where they are beneficial for the community and the children in these targeted villages. The project had also made some short of recognition paper with the DoEYS to acknowledge that these teachers will be becoming a government contracted teacher in the future so that they are on official list for official certification. The project has also achieved to the plan where it aim to reach 220 of the poor children to have access to school uniforms, writing materials, school bags, and kits (pencil, writing slates, note books) and other teaching aid supplied (blackboard, student attendants recording book, text books, exercise book and writing materials) to all of the three schools that are supported by the project. The project had also established 3 children’s clubs and where there are approximately 25 children per club. The purpose of having children’s club establishment is to make chance for children to have full access to information regarding sense of community building, child rights and participation and where they can act to involve in their ways of response to child issue. The clubs structure is to set for an encouragement of children to form themselves into independence groups within their respective villages so that they can meet and discuss their day-to-day concerns, build trust and confidences amongst the children at their village. In this term, the children are the point where the project aims at promoting the sense of community and civil society transformation and democracy awareness raising. Throughout the reporting period, the project conducted 2 training to each club on 1 – anti-child trafficking, and 2 – children’s rights. Moreover, the project staff always took some times to visit children at home to convince them and aware them to know their right. In order to encourage and motivate the children to come together into the group and to be used as an incentive for children, the project supported with sporting equipments such; volleyball with net, football, rocket, jumping rope to the club in Koh kaev, Phnom Spong and Phnom Koy. These sports equipment are made available for the club member to play when they meet and/or after they their group meeting. It is noticed that the children in these poor villages do not have access to sports or leisure activities, so they are additional attraction equipment for encourage them to come and play and entertain their childhood as much as they want. Advocacy: the project also planed for community wide even which focused on child rights and anti-child trafficking to be taken place within this period. In June 1st 2006, the project celebrated a child right’s day with the cooperation from villagers and local authorities. The event taken place in Phnom koy village, Salakrav commune, Salakrav district, Pailin Municipality. The event started from 7:30am until 12:00 o’clock where its main message was to raise the awareness on child’s rights. The participations in this event are from Salakrav District Governor, commune leaders, village heads, Phnom koy school director and district education youth & sport officer with approx. 150 participants. The event has adjourned after the Salakrav district governor’s speech where he stress specifically on the promotion of child rights and the effort that every individual have to help reducing the number of child violation, trafficking, child labor exploitation. June 20th 2006, project conducted a whole day workshop on child’s rights and anti-child trafficking to the local authorities; in salakrauv district office, with chaired by Salakrav Deputy Governor and attended by Commune Leaders, Village Heads and Village Development Committee (VDC) representatives from all targeted villages. There were at least 20 participants participated in this event. The main subject that discussed within this workshop was child’s rights human rights and anti-child trafficking. June 22nd 2006 project staff led 20 children (clubs representative member) from Phnom Spong, Phnom Koy and Koh Kaev village, to conduct excursion visit to Salakrav district governor office. The team was brief and oriented of the governing structure by Salakrav district deputy governor. The deputy has made some remark to the children that he wants the children to be grown up as a dynamic and full strength so that they can be the positive replacement of an old generation. The children are the new waves and who can influence or transform the society’s development perspectives effectively. Throughout the first semester, the project completed setting up 3 self-help groups within 3 targeted villages. The main purpose of having self-help group formation was to facilitate the disadvantage and marginalized population to raise the sense of community and social structure restoration and reclaim for social unity. Each group is managing by their representative and who are democratically selected amongst the members. The group is an autonomous where members are the very poor villagers. The project completed the formation of 3 self-help groups within the 3 targeted villages which are Koh Kaev, Phnom Koy and Phum Spong of Sala Krao commune, Sala Krao district of Pailin municipality. One of the main expected outcomes of this output is to resolve the economic pressure so that they could maneuver to set up long term development and self-sufficiency. The project had also accomplished the formation of 3 self-help groups within the 3 targeted villages where the total members of the groups are 10 families of the poorest of the poor who are from the three targeted village above. The project conducted 3 training sessions on group functioning, management to the group and their member. The project made available of small amount ($ 25) revolving capital for each group, which they can be use to increase their crops production activities. In addition, the project support light agricultural tools such as knife, ax, hoe and seed to poor families with total fund $ 155.16 within this period. Within an early of the project commencement, we found out that a bridge that located in Phom Spong village needs repairing. We encouraged for partial contribution from villagers in order that we could rebuild this bridge for public access. There was a great success achieved by the project that a hug contribution from villagers of local labor and some small timbers. The project only spends some amount of funding to cover nail and some necessary wooden frames. It is clear that with the motivation and facilitation from the project, there is obviously that the villagers could see the benefit and show up their will to work together for their community efficiently. Throughout the reporting period, the project conduct 11 meetings time for the 3 targeted villages. These meetings were set for discussion on project activities implementation within each village and to find alternative to develop future planning. There were 9 (3 times per village) meeting were held in three villages, Phnom Koy, Phnom Spong, and Koh Kaev with the villagers, village leaders and Village Development Committee (VDC) to identify the poorest in the community. 30 families identified as to be the most needed and they were all included into self-help group for supporting. The project supports food assistance such; fish can, rice, fish-salt and ingredients to families who are food shortfall within this reporting period. Travel: The project manager is require to spent 75 percent of his time in field in order to facilitate, project monitoring, coordination and follow up on activities to ensure that the project objectives are attained and achieved effectively. Within this reporting period, we found that the propose budget is not met to the real requirement as the cost of fuel has been increased. It is therefore, the line of traveling cost may have request for some revise to meet the actual. N/A The target village selection are normally base on factors such as the recommendation from local authority who help to identify which are the most need and priority for an NGO to assist while the other is to judge on real situation which assess by CVD staff to see which are those recommended village shall the project targeted. After the physical assessment to the recommended villages, we decide to take 3 villages out of the 6 to commence our project within this first year. These 3 villages are Koh Kaev, Phom Spong and Phnom Koy village. Among the 3 targeted villages, we found that Koh Kaev is located remotely into the deep forest. Road access to this village is difficult, especially during raininy season. It is recommended that if there is any plan of visit to the village, it should be scheduled for dry season. General assessment to the overall project accomplishment within this reporting period, we found that the targeted families who were selected to be members of self-help group are extremely poor. Most of these people were originally fled from other province to relocate in Pailin for gemstone mining. Due to the lack of earning from natural resources hunting, they are forced to relocate in remote villages in seek for better income by employing as local laborers. Many families do not possess land for both, home and cultivation, hence some families who has small size of farmland but the quality is very poor. The geographical areas in these targeted villages are sandy and dry condition. It is very hard to cultivate crop because the soil does not have enough fertilize. The primary stage that the project should put effort in to help these people was to make sure that food security is met within the first year one and two. In order to achieve this critical outcome, the project shall evoke more attention on irrigation system development, natural fertilizer, compose management and looking for possible land assistance to the landless families.
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Cambodian Vision in Development
Battambang, Cambodia