I and other students joined a Youth Study Tour on June 19 organized by the World Bank Cambodia to two provinces, Kampong Cham and Kratie. The first program of the tour was to meet the Vihear Loung Sangkat Council in Krong Soung, Kampong Cham province. This is a model sangkat, and I admire its achievements [...]
“A Lively Community Starts With You” is the slogan motivating a youth group in O’Dambang I commune of Battambang province. “I am very interested in this program,” 21-year-old Sim Savan says proudly. “I want to apply it to my community because I want to see it vital and lively.” To get things moving Mr Savan [...]
Meung Sokny, 34, a resident of Village 6, Sangkat Veal Vong, Kampong Cham province, is delighted to talk about her problems to the Commune Research Team (CRT), because she feels she gets a quick response and better service. “Now when we want to have administrative stuff done, it is quicker,” she chuckles. “Our health services [...]
Every month Phrang Seyhou, 25, and her team go from village to village in Banteay Meanchey’s Toeuk Thla Sangkat compiling a list of villagers’ concerns and needs. Then they submit their findings to Sangkat council members. “We randomly select 15 or 20 villagers from each village and ask them for information,” says Ms Seyhou, who [...]
In July 2009, Commune Council Support Project (CCSP) facilitated the establishment of two provincial NGOs Networks to support Decentralization and Deconcentration (D&D) in Pursat and Kampong Cham provinces. The initiative to create the new networks bases primarily on the success and experiences of four existing provincial NGOs networks that CCSP facilitated to establish in 2007, [...]
Agricultural production in a village in Pursat has increased, thanks to a cash-for-work project implemented by Ponleur Kumar (PK). Damnak Thnong village in Bakan district’s Khnar Totoeung commune, has 175 families; 41% of which are categorized as the poorest. The project enables farmers, more than 90% of villagers, to plant rice at least 2-3 times [...]
Thnout Chum sits along National Road 5, about 15km away from Pursat provincial town. In terms of geography, in Thnout Chum commune there are mountains, rivers (Thlear Maorm River) and forest, which covers over two-thirds of the total area of the commune. Thnout Chum is divided into 14 villages, with a total population of 11,550, [...]
A consultative meeting between civil society organizations and Ministry of Interior (MoI) on draft of 10-Year National Program for Sub-National Democratic Development (NP-SNDD) was held on September 2, 2009 in Phnom Penh. The meeting was hosted by Commune Council Support Project (CCSP) and facilitated by NGO Liaison Office (NLO). Altogether 50 participants representing CSOs, development [...]
Three New Projects Worth $71.5 million to Help Govt. Fight Poverty The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors endorsed, in May 2008, the extension of the Bank’s Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Cambodia until 2011, citing strong progress on reform efforts and the government’s commitment to the reform agenda. The decision to extend the [...]