ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Self-confidence building and Children have chance to get the livelihood improvement of the holistic development poorest Counseling with the Poorest Liveilhood Improvement Krousar Yoeung Association is specialized in: Early Childhood Care and Development, Parenting, Child Club, Counseling (with poorest and vulnerable families, and people with disability), Livelihood Improvement, Family Health Improvement, and Vocational Training to disadvantage out-of-school youths. Contents Message from Chair of Board of Directors ............................................................................1 Message from Executive Director.......................................................................................... 2 1. Who are we? ...................................................................................................................... 3 1.1. Vision.......................................................................................................................... 3 1.2. Mission ....................................................................................................................... 3 1.3. Values ........................................................................................................................ 3 2. Strategic Plan 2009-2013....................................................................................................4 3. Krousar Yoeung from 2010-2013 ....................................................................................... 4 4. Beneficiaries of Kory’s Interventions in 2013.....................................................................5 5. What are we currently doing and where? ..........................................................................6 5.1 Key Activates of Krousar Yoeung................................................................................ 6 5.2 KrY’s Projects and Key Activities in 2013 ....................................................................7 6. Our Approaches ................................................................................................................ 8 6.1 An Integrated Approach .............................................................................................. 8 6.2 Working in Partnership ................................................................................................ 8 6.3 Action Targeting the Community by Focusing on Poorest Families ............................ 8 7. Early Childhood Care and Development and Child Rights Promotion .................... 9 7.1 Community Preschool Establishment with Quality Education and Autonomy.............. 10 7.2 Parenting.................................................................................................................... 13 7.3 Early Childhood Care and Development Training ................................................................ 15 7.4 Early Childhood Resource Centre ............................................................................... 17 7.5 Free Games ............................................................................................................... 22 7.6 Child Club (Improve Studying Performance and Children Rights Respect) ........................ 24 7.7 Strengthening Child Friendly School Program Practices .............................................. 27 7.8 Network of Early Childhood Care and Development (NECCD)..................................... 29 7.9 Producing Pedagogical Games ................................................................................. 30 8. Family Empowerment ................................................................................................... 31 8.1 Counselling with the Poorest ..................................................................................... 32 8.2 Livelihood Improvement ............................................................................................ 36 8.3 Family Health Improvement ...................................................................................... 39 8.4 Vocational Training to Out-of-School Youths ............................................................... 41 9. Donors and Key partner NGOs ...................................................................................... 43 10. Financial Situation in 2013 ........................................................................................... 44 11. Strategic Plan 2014-2018 .............................................................................................. 46 Message from Chair of Board of Directors Within the period of the previous 12 years, Krousar Yoeung Association (KrY) has played an essential key role in developing the rural areas (including sub-urban areas of Phnom Penh city) of Kingdom of Cambodia. Our work has focused on Early Childhood Care and Development (that’s KrY’s core work since its inception of 2001) and on Community Empowerment (specifically the empowerment of the poorest families and vulnerable groups) and these works are increasingly important in the context of the currently development using integrated approaches. Every work of KrY has significantly contributed to the poverty reduction and to the increase in both quantity and quality of the education, basically early childhood education. Currently, I clearly realized KrY’s capacity in carrying out these works has greatly improved. In this 2013, we received a budget of USD 1,139,046 (representing a 35% increase of the budget in 2012 – USD 838,185) and got n ine ( 9) projects which allowed KrY to start working in the new field (Vocational Training to disadvantage young people) and to scale up its interventions to dominate in another new target province – Ratanakiri. With this progress, the number of the beneficiaries of KrY’s intervention also sharply increased and its details can be found in this report. This achievement does not happen by itself. It happens because of the enough technical ability and the strong determination of KrY (in helping children to get the holistic development and the child rights respect, and increasing self-confidence of the poorest to successfully improve their livelihood) which were built for many years. All of these are the key factors which has been helped KrY to remain getting successive supports from donors, local authorities and government officials and partner families so far. Therefore, I, representing all members of the board of directors of KrY, would like to sincerely extend our thanks to all donors, partners, and our key stakeholders who have contributed to the accomplishment of our activities whose achievements were highlighted in this report. Phnom Penh, February 27, 2014 Ms. Bun Sarân Krousar Yoeung Annual Report 2013 Page 1 of 56 Message from Executive Director On behalf of Executive Director of Krousar Yoeung Association (KrY), I would like to express my sincere to inform you that KrY was established in 2001 and has been operated over 12 years by initially beginning its work with community preschool establishment and parenting and then expanding its operation to cover other new key activities including counseling, ECCD training, child club, livelihood improvement, family health improvement, and vocational training. This report will highlight the key achievements of each of these above key activities in 2013 along with challenges and lessons we have faced and learnt during the implementation period. The achievements don’t happen by easy work but hard work of all KrY’s staff in combination with the supports from partner families (heads of the families and their children), the government, and especially donors who provided both financial and technical support to us. In 2013, we has spent USD 978,882 (86% of the budget received in 2013) on implementing its key activities and benefit to 31,141 people (partner families, children, and duty bearers). Local authorities in target areas, community structures such as preschool supporting committee, preschool teachers, village volunteers, child club leaders, child club supporting committee and other structures (formed by KrY) also received capacity building/trainings so that they take their roles and responsibility more effectively and contribute to the sustainability and autonomy of the practices of various community development activities when KrY withdrawals from those target areas. We also developed the Strategic Plan 2014-2018 which gives the direction for us to continuously carry out our key activities, for scaling up its operation to a bigger coverage, and for seizing other new activities for implementation within the next 5 year period. Finally, I would like to highly appreciate the efforts of all KrY's staff who has worked with high responsibility as well as board of directors and paid their best attention on their works. And once again, I, representing Krousar Yoeung Association and all KrY’s staff would like to sincerely extend our thanks to all donors, partners, and its key stakeholders who have contributed to supporting KrY’s activities till now. Phnom Penh, February 27, 2014 Ms. Ky Samphy Krousar Yoeung Annual Report 2013 Page 2 of 56 1. Who are we? Krousar Yoeung Association is a local non-governmental organization with no religious or political ties and was established to improve the welfare, intellectual and overall development of children, to enhance parenting skills, to improve their livelihoods and to empower them towards autonomy. Krousar Yoeung Association was established in November 2001 and has been officially