EE/ESD Program

Title of EE/ESD project

Agricultural Project

Created : Oct 18 2007 / Modified : Oct 19 2007

Type of the Project

National / Community Level: National
Main contents and field: Agriculture / Community Development / Earth Science / Training / Women Gender

Financial resources (Granted, sponsored by or partnership with)

Organization/Institution

Tear Fund UK

Name of Grant

Amount

11,000 USD per year
(11,000 US Dollar)

Target area and people: Agricultural Project has implemented in rural areas in 2 program units of WDO program. The project has accessed in the 7 villages in 7 communes in 2 provinces and benefited to over 900 families about 4,500 people.

Background/Problems of the project: As Cambodia continues a programme of post-war reconstruction and rehabilitation many challenges remain, particularly in the area of poverty reduction. An estimated 36 per cent of the population continues to live below the poverty level. Although more than 80 % of Cambodia's population are employed in agricultural production. But some of people in the rural area they not enough food for eat because of they use more of chemical as chemical fertilizer and insecticide. As the result they use more of money for buy the Chemical and had the big problem with the soil.

The Wholistic Development Organization (WDO), Wholistic Community Development project seeks to address the physical, social, spiritual and environmental needs of communities, through enabling local Christians to be involved in actively facilitating transformational development within their communities.

Objectives/Significance of the project: Project goal: to provide the organic training to the community to improve health environment and food security.
Significance of the project: the project could effectively provide training on assistant of agricultural techniques to improve community health and food security through the agricultural projects.

Description of the project: *Design and produce materials related to the technical assistance of agriculture.
*Problem analysis with the people in community.
*Project, pig raising, chicken raising, vegetable growing, corn growing, pea growing, seedling growing, New rice variety, build the cannel around the field.
*Train the technique to community, animal raising, crop growing, compost preparation, Effective Microorganism.
*Give some materiel to community as some seed, animal
*Monitoring, after the give some materiel will be monitoring so the project facilitator was go to village two times per month.

Materials/equipments used in the project:: The project is not only provided awareness training but it also accessed to the real implementation.

*Implementation Activities: rice variety bank, home garden, tree planting, construct the canal, animal raising, SRI, ...
*Design Materials: computers, scanners, paints, pens, printers, etc
*Awareness Training: picture, lesson plan, books, Video player, paper tape, scissors,...etc.
*Implementation Materials: Sand, Bride, Cement, PVC tube, ..etc.

Result/Self evaluation (success or failure) including its reasons: The Agricultural project was impacted on the life of people :
First, the yield of products was batter as the new rice variety, vegetable. As the result they had enough food for eat.

Second, the project is also impacted on an ecology and biodiversity and improved the health environment (organic farm, and motivate them do not use the chemical), food security as well as the living condition. It is really self help projects that lead to get ownership and sustainability by the communities themselves. Now the project is getting more and popular and it is multiplied to neighbor families by own community.

Other learning from the project: *Some of people are despaired because of a very long war in which killed families members and destroyed infrastructures. So DWO staff have to motivate them before providing the train on agricultural techniques and other topics to develop the communities.

*Many farmers drank (wine) and smoked the cigarettes because they are stress and hopeless. So the WDO encourages and motivated (tell people the bad impact of wines and cigarettes) again and again to stop. As the result the people have changes.