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Nomad RSI Cambodia Annual Report 2011 Nomad RSI Cambodia Annual Report 2011 Sen Monorom Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia [email protected] www.nomadrsi.org Nomad RSI Cambodia – Annual Report 2011 Photo cover: Bunong Ceremony where the elders asked the spirits to help them to success in the show held before a cultural event facilitated by Nomad RSI in November 2011. This event was an occasion to portray the new components of Nomad RSI projects in 2011 such as Bunong community self- help groups and indigenous products; the cultural exhibitions of the Mondulkiri Resource and Documentation Centre (MRDC) and the ongoing work of the Medicinal Plants groups. The report was drafted by : Sorn Sarun, Nomad RSI Cambodia Programme Director Checked and edited by : Nicolas Savajol, Technical Advisor and John Lowrie, Senior Advisor. ©Nomad RSI Cambodia 2012 All pictures and design credit to Nomad RSI – they may be used after permission is obtained with due attribution shown. Table of contents I - Nomad RSI in Mondulkiri Province _________________________________________- 3 - General situation _______________________________________________________- 3 - Team composition ______________________________________________________- 4 - Overview of 2011 – towards a broader approach to health and autonomy of the organisation ___________________________________________________________- 5 - II - Programme Results _____________________________________________________- 6 - 1. Health Education Project _______________________________________________- 6 - 2. Medicinal Plants Project: _______________________________________________- 9 - 3. Mondulkiri Resource and Documentation Centre___________________________- 12 - 4.Better Lives, Livelihoods and Choices for Indigenous Communities. ____________- 15 - 5. Impacts and Lessons Learned___________________________________________- 17 - III – Perspectives for 2012__________________________________________________- 20 - IV - Financial Report ______________________________________________________- 22 - - 1 - Nomad RSI Cambodia – Annual Report 2011 Acronyms CMEP Community Malaria Education Project CBO Community Based Organisation CNM Centre National for Malaria CISP Creative Industries Support Programme CSO Civil Society Organisation DoFAC Department of Fine Arts and Culture GF Global Fund HC Health Centre IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement ILO International Labour Organization MDGF Millennium Development Goals Fund MoU Memorandum of Understanding MoH Ministry of Health MP Medicinal Plants MPG Medicinal Plants Group MRD Ministry of Rural Development MRDC Mondulkiri Resource & Documentation Centre NTFP Non Timber Forest Product NTFP-EP Non Timber Forest Product – Exchange Programme Nomad RSI Nomad Recherche et Soutien International PRA Participatory Rural Appraisal PHD Provincial Health Department PVF Pro Victimis Foundation RUPP Royal University of Phnom Penh SHG Self Help Group TBA Traditional Birth Attendant UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization VHSG Village Health Support Group VHW Village Health Workers - 2 - Nomad RSI Cambodia – Annual Report 2011 I - Nomad RSI in Mondulkiri Province General situation Nomad RSI is an International NGO specializing in research and training related to health and health practices amongst remote and minority communities in the developing world. In addition through many other activities, Nomad RSI contributes to these communities, for example by improving livelihoods and self-help group working. Nomad RSI 's development actions are sensitive and appropriate to the needs and cultures of beneficiary communities. Nomad RSI 's standard of practice is based on in-depth social research with high value given to community participation. Vision: To accomplish permanent improvements in remote mainly Bunong Indigenous communities: for acceptable and appropriate health services to operate efficiently; better lives and livelihoods to be sustained; and community solidarity/ownership invigorated through raised capacity to uphold cultural identity and manage their natural resources. Mission Nomad RSI’s global mission is to promote and protect therapeutic diversity in health-care along with protection of the environment . Nomad RSI advocates for health problems to be approached holistically in their multiple biological, social, environmental and economic dimensions. This multi-faceted approach accords with the World Health Organization’s definition of health: “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being." Therefore Nomad RSI supports a range of therapeutic forms, through the idea of reasoned medical pluralism in which medical systems of many kinds, including biomedicine, independently find their place. Goals: 1. To promote the general health; education and well-being of poor indigenous communities, through better lives and livelihoods, especially the most vulnerable and at-risk citizens. 2. To pioneer, test and prove effective and culturally-appropriate solutions to most manifest problems such as malaria, with creative learning techniques and messages that convey concepts within the spoken-only language; belief systems and contexts of indigenous communities. 3. To facilitate medical pluralism through multi-scientific empirical research for traditional and conventional health to operate alongside each other harmoniously to maximise potential for better health for all. 4. To promote and facilitate the preservation and protection of indigenous culture through building the capacity of communities – elders; leaders, teachers and revered members such as Traditional Health Practitioners and Birth Attendants, as well as ordinary men, women and children – to operate their own civil society organisations and institutions. - 3 - Nomad RSI Cambodia – Annual Report 2011 Team composition Members and position Nomad RSI Cambodia in 2011 Sorn Sarun: Programme Director Puch Sorya: Finance Manager Office Team Som Sinet: Assistant Administrator Soeng Uk: Project Manager Sam John: Community facilitator Chan Kasol: Community facilitator Field Team Chhay Vanny Health Community facilitator Tuoun Vanny MP Community facilitator Chey Bunthy MRDC Project manager Chang Oen MRDC librarian Yong Sophana : Logistician / Driver Moen Rith: Guard Support Staff Sokheang Sokheng : Guard Ma Korb: Cleaner Brigitte Nikles: MRDC Advisor/Anthropologist Nicolas Savajol: Medicinal Plant Project Manager Technical Advisor Expatriate John Lowrie General Co-ordinator Senior Advisor Nomad RSI’s founder Laurent Pordié with some of the team during his visit of at the beginning of 2012 - 4 - Nomad RSI Cambodia – Annual Report 2011 Overview of 2011: “Towards a broader approach to health and autonomy of the organisation.” While 2010 saw the gradual reduction and re-orientation of Nomad RSI ’s main health education programme in malaria prevention, 2011 has been a year where Nomad RSI Cambodia has had to diversify to pilot new projects where cultural protection and sustainable livelihoods feature more in their design. The vision and goals of the organisation have been evolving with a broader approach towards “health and well-being” as a wider range of factors are now at-play impinging on health. These changes coincide with the planned move towards greater autonomy for Nomad RSI in Cambodia. Although this evolving strategy is led increasingly by the local team in close collaboration with indigenous leaders, it comes at a time when challenges are becoming more formidable. Fund- raising in and for Cambodia is becoming more difficult and the pace of development in Mondulkiri continues to accelerate, usually adversely affecting indigenous people. Nomad RSI’s projects increasingly emphasise the socio-cultural aspects of Mondulkiri’s main ethnic group the Bunong Indigenous people. The WHO definition “health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being ” embodies Bunong Traditional Health practices as well as Nomad RSI ’s philosophy on therapeutic diversity. Thanks to our new supporters and donor from 2010, MDG–F CISP , the Mondulkiri Resource and Documentation Centre (MRDC) has grown from more than a place for keeping information and data on Mondulkiri in to a valuable facility to develop and value Bunong culture through exhibitions, videos and theatre show. Our second-linked MDG-F CISP project is building the confidence, skills, knowledge and capacity of Bunong people for them to be more able to influence their own lives and livelihoods. New activities have facilitated collective strength and encouraged voluntary self-help group working in handicrafts, basketry, traditional dance, and cultural expression. Both projects are bringing more capacity to Bunong people to improve their livelihoods, ways of living and by doing so they themselves improve health, nutrition and well-being. Meanwhile Nomad RSI’s programme on preservation of medicinal plants and traditional medicine has continued to evolve and project Nomad RSI ’s vision of health and culture. This year has seen the emergence of 3 Medicinal Plants Groups as the main relays of the project at village level. The group members start to manage their medicinal plant resources by developing forest-gardens and cooperating with community forestries to monitor the natural medicinal plant resource. The main issues for the groups are (a) to conserve plants and access to them; (b) to strengthen their capacity to undertake such duties and responsibilities, and (c) develop income generating activities linked with medicinal plants and/or
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