Institutional Development at village and Commune Levels (Community Organisation)
Community-based collective self-help groups, capable of
mobilising local resources for the development of community welfare,
and for the strengthening of a net of social security for children
at risk from losing their family support, are the primary stakeholders
of the projects.
Wathnakpheap and its district-based local partner organisations, encourage
and facilitate the building up the capacity of:
- Commune Councils (CC),
- Village Development Committees (VDC),
- Parent Committee(PC),
- Social Welfare Fund Committee (SWFC),
- Child and Youth Club (CYC),
- Community Animators (CA),
- Development Activity Groups (DAG).
A variety of training courses are provided to VDCs, CAs, PCs, SWFCs,
CYCs and DAGs to enable them to manage their own development activities.
This training must be completed with the first two years of the project
cycle. Each community has project life-cycle support by Wathnakpheap's
local partner for a maximum of six year: "Building up" for
the first 2 years, "Consolidation" for the 2 middle years
and "Phasing out" for the final 2 years.
Capacity building of Commune Councils has been included since they
were elected in early 2002. The communities themselves will gradually
take over the steering of development processes and the backstopping
of the community development organisations.
The program stand for an important investment in poverty alleviation
and sustainable community development, with a focus on disadvantaged
families especially women and their children. Through their program
they offer to the participating communities the possibility of empowerment
through reducing poverty and vulnerability and through furthering
social welfare within the frame of national development. Project
activities are embedded in institution building at village level,
which means that fostering local initiative and resource mobilisation
as well as knowledge transfer and training on organisation management
and life skills, come well before external material assistance.
The Project Organisations work in a participatory manner, facilitating
community involvement in project implementation and capacity building
at grass-root level.
Wathnakpheap and its partners promote the establishment
and capacity building of CYC, CEC, SWC, VDC and CC on "Group Formation/Roles
and Responsibilities" by support in planning, organizing meetings,
reporting and the Community Development Concept.
| |
CYC |
CEC |
SWC |
VDC |
CC |
| No |
MB |
No |
MB |
No |
MB |
No |
MB |
No |
MB |
| KRK |
21 |
535 |
28 |
125 |
28 |
133 |
28 |
140 |
10 |
60 |
| KDG |
27 |
610 |
26 |
78 |
26 |
128 |
26 |
130 |
7 |
49 |
| BKN |
34 |
201 |
29 |
126 |
29 |
129 |
29 |
146 |
5 |
51 |
| KVH |
10 |
160 |
26 |
81 |
26 |
130 |
26 |
143 |
7 |
|
| CTR |
|
|
3 |
9 |
|
|
3 |
12 |
1 |
|
| KPR |
|
|
2 |
6 |
|
|
2 |
9 |
1 |
|
| |
92 |
1,506 |
114 |
425 |
109 |
520 |
114 |
580 |
31 |
|
-CYC: Child Youth Club; CEC: Community Education Committee; SWC: Social Welfare Committee;
Village Development Committee; CC:Commune Council; No: Number; MB: Member
-Districts in Pursat: KRK: Krokor - KDG: Kandieng - BKN: Bakan - KVH: Krovanh
-Districts in Svay Rieng: CTR: Chantrea - KPR: Kompong Ror
Through the (COPA) organized in late 2004 with the participation of
community leaders, field staff of WP and partners, the results are
the following:
| Details of the assessment |
Krakor |
Kandieng |
Kravanh |
Bakan |
Total |
| Strong communities |
4 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
15 |
| Medium communities |
17 |
20 |
17 |
14 |
68 |
| Weak communities |
5 |
5 |
5 |
6 |
21 |
| Total |
26 |
26 |
26 |
26 |
104 |
|
|
Institutional Dev't |
Women group meeting
Capacity building to self-help
group leader
Community Center Building Construction
Exhibition of village products on International Women's Day
Community leaders meeting
|
|
Infrastructures
- Communities have been encouraged to contribute in kind of cash
or physical labor to improve and develop village infrastructure.
- Self-help group leaders were trained to mobilise local and external
resource as well as good governance in budgeting and expenditure
of the cost of village infrastructures.
| Type of Infrastructure |
Quantity |
Total Cost |
People contribution |
| Road repair |
14 |
7,982 |
5,425 |
| Bridge repair |
2 |
4,810 |
1,467 |
| Sewage |
8 |
2,260 |
340 |
| Open well |
70 |
85,781 |
15,604 |
| Pond |
10 |
9,419 |
2,087 |
| Rice stores |
8 |
4,764 |
1,641 |
| Schools (Room) |
9 |
28,051 |
6,872 |
| School repair |
6 |
7,476 |
1,119 |
| Community hall |
3 |
9,766 |
1,436 |
Total In Riels |
160,309 |
35,919 |
(Unit: 1000 Riels; 1USD: 4000R)
|
|
Infrasturctures |
Participation in making
village pond
Road construction activities
|
|
|
|