Development Project Context Project Outline (PO)

1. Project Name

Increase family income to enable children to grow up healthy.

Project Duration : 3 years

Beneficiary : 200 families (1,000 villagers, 400 children)

Cost estimation : ~$46,316 (Forty Six Thousand Three Hundred and Sixteen US Dollars only)

PART A: PROJECT DESCRIPTION

2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This pilot project is designed specifically for the improvement and development to meet the current need of the villages or communities in the third world countries. In the context of developed countries with heavy industries and technology advancement, such a project will be defined as an old and slow development process. Therefore, the below project is piloted in one or two villages as a trial.

General Situation in Thom district, province, Cambodia

Angkor Thom district as well as other districts of Cambodia faces a number of challenges including a lack of classrooms, poorly trained teachers, high illiteracy, poverty, low income, poor crop production, malnutrition and poor health care. The district of has a population of about 19,000 people of 3,300 families scattered over 25 villages and 4 communes. Almost all villagers are subsistence farmers and are very poor.

With family income in Angkor Thom district at roughly 9 US$ per month paying for living is very difficult. Rice growing is a common means to secure food supply in Angkor Thom as well as other parts of the country. Villagers practice a traditional rice growing method. However, there are only 2,016 hectares of land in the whole district recorded available for rice growing; the rest of is mine-affected, as it used to be a battleground. The yield is often very small due to poor irrigation system and primitive growing means. Each family (~6 members) owns less than one hectare of land with about 1.2 tons harvest. Poor crop after harvest season sends the parents to look for other means to support the family. Raiding forest for firewood, reeds for crafts, slashing trees in the jungle to expand land for rice growing, risking in mine-affected areas. As a result, children face malnutrition severely. In order to support the family, children also take part in collecting firewood or bamboo shoot for selling and cooking, catching fish/crabs from the nearby ponds, looking after household and young siblings and even working in brick factories or neighbors’ field or plantation for a little payment in return, leaving their schools behind. Without source of sanitary water, raw water drinking from nearby ponds or wells is very common, resulting children suffer from diarrhea, and many other diseases.

Possible Intervention

Increasing family income is a good and appropriate intervention, which will upgrade living standard of local people and safeguard children from exploitation and physically suffer. An immediate and charitable investment on gardening vegetables with a short period of time but high price is projected out. Any particular type of vegetables depends on geographical areas. In Angkor Thom geographical areas, instead of encouraging rice growing in none existing irrigation system, sugar can plantation is defined as short time consuming (6-9 months) but high price in accordance with the local needs.

(a) Training plantation skill and techniques and directly actual practice

200 poorest families are prioritized and selected as members of sugar can plantation teams for a hand-on experiment/practice and lesson facilitating by organization with reliable and sustainable administration cost as well as expertise (local or international NGOs) that programmed itself for community development projects. A 2-hectare land is determined as a hand-on class. Members will be scheduled to come and experiment with guidance from the expertise. Educational material such textbooks using understandable local language will be particularly designed and distributed to all members as references. At the same time, they can start working on their fields possibly with the observation and consultation from the expertise. The sugar trees growing on the 2 hectare of land of the experiment will provide to the poorest members out of the 200 selected poorest members free of charge to transplant on their fields.

(b) Drilling wells to water the plantation and plowing fields

A part from the training and free of charge sugar can seedling provision, a need of pumping wells is defined to keep the project implementation sustainable. As mentioned above that poor families owns arid land which is not available for rice growing and far way from the irrigation system will be prioritized, the provision of wells will mean offering irrigation system and water consumption to each families. Without wells to ensure water supply, such a plantation will result negatively. As each family possess about one hectare of land, 1 well for 2 families is deemed necessary to ensure water supply for the field as well as families’ need. It will remains as each family’s treasure to make use of. Help plowing villagers’ field while entering implementati on process is the first direct and appropriate support. Selected villagers surely couldn’t afford to plow their own fields at the start of working while suggesting their own gardens as they suffer from drought for 2 consecutive years. Therefore, it is considered necessary to intervene in plowing fields and drilling pump as a means to secure long- run project on their own after 3-year project completion.

In light of the current situation, such an intervention and support will increase family income. Therefore, school-aged children will also be able to fully attend the academic class and free from hunger and exploitation. As long as the parents have good income to secure the family, children don’t need to work heavily to support the family, while at this age they should be given schooling and growing up healthy opportunity in a safe and protected environment.

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3. OBJECTIVES

Describe the objectives of the project in relation to community development.

The project aims to:

· Improve standard of living through increasing family’s income · Protect children from exploitation and hunger · Insure a safe environment for children · Grow up healthy · Secure food supply (as income increase) · Reduce environmental deterioration (decrease slashing agriculture, logging for firewood, and burning forests, etc.)

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4. OUTPUTS

Unit Output Cost Total Quantity Code Description A Wells drilling ~$200 ~$20,000 100 pumping wells

B Ploughing fields ~$28 ~$5,600 200 hectares of land

C Educational materials ~$2 ~$400 200 textbooks, 200 note and writing books books

D Installation of Solar ~$3,500 $3,500 1 station with an ability of Energy station for Water watering 8-15 m³ per day pumping at Experiment field

E Senior agricultural ~$300 ~$10,800 3 year period Technician (employed) (month)

F Assistant to Senior ~$100 ~3,600 3 year period Technician (month) (locally employed)

G Experiment Field ~$200 ~$400 2 hectare of land preparation (field clearance)

H Ploughing experiment ~$28 ~$56 2 hectare of land field I Sugar can seedling for ~$80 ~$160 2 hectare of land experiment field + transportation

J Evaluation tools and ~$150 $1,800 Outcome analysis and means Documentation

Total: ~$46,316

This is only a rough cost estimation.

4 5. DESCRIPTION OF BENEFITS

As this is a pilot project, beneficiaries are limited in accordance with selected area.

Direct beneficiaries Indirect Total No. of Beneficiaries Beneficiaries No. of Family No. of Villagers No. of children 200 1,000 400 1,400

6. FORECAST EXPENDITURE BY QUARTER

Year 1 Output Code Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total G 400

H 56

I 160 D 3,500 E 900 900 900 900 F 300 300 300 300 C 400 A 10,000 10,000

B 1,680

5,316 1,600 11,200 12,880 30,996 Total

Year 2 Output Code Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total E 900 900 900 900

F 300 300 300 300

B 1,960 1,960

Total 3,160 3,160 1,200 1,200 8,7200

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Year 3 Output Code Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total E 900 900 900 900

F 300 300 300 300

J 450 450 450 450

Total 1,650 1,650 1,650 1,650 6,600

7. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Members of the project will take part in learning and hand-on practice at the experiment fields. They will get, in return, growing skills, pumping wells and free ploughing particularly one hectare of land for each family, and free seedling to set up plantation on their owns. Authorized authority will officially donate a 2-hectare plot of land for experiment. In addition, concerning district institution will be taking part in evaluating, strategizing and following up. A part from the above two agricultural technicians, semi technicians from the community are specifically agreed to take part in implementing, planning and monitoring. Upon the completion of the project, all stakeholders such as Non-governmental Organizations (local/international who are interested in development program), local authority, community Development committee, and villagers take part in defining well-implemented process and deadlock for future planning. If succeeded, NGOs will take it as example to expand in other program areas through out the country. The experiment field can be offered to local authority’/qualified partner to manage based on certain agreement that they will continue to facilitates for the sake of the community. We can follow up or take part as advisor/monitor to make sure of sustainable project continuation.

Expectation of the project

The project expected not particularly one type of crop. It will depend mainly on geographical areas, local interest, and local market needs. To secure food supply, variety of crop can be identified. As a result, different agricultural programs will be projected out to meet the needs of each village and community based on available sources in order to up-grade the standard of living of villagers.

8. IMPLEMENTATION AGENCY

Selecting implementation agency is crucial to make sure the project is smoothly implemented. The organization(s) with community development program, secure administration cost, capable staff in capacity building to transfer skill for local people are highly recommended to carry out the project.

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