The project 2012
In 2012 AYEM was mandated by the NGO AVSF (Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières). It made an impact assessment of the Komrong-Daïkou project focused on the farmers' organzations in Cambodia. Through this collaboration, they wanted to suggest to AVSF an effective evaluation tool and a possible way of improving the project to fall within a sustainable perspective.
An impact assessment of the Komrong Daikou project
The study was leaded by AYEM and mandated by AVSF. They did a report on the current situation of the farmers' organizations two years after the end of the KOMRONG DAIKOU project. Farmers's organizations are farmers meetings gathered on the subject of a common economical project. The purpose was to support the farmers' organizations, in order to improve their economical and technical capacities and also their influence toward politicians.
The KOMRONG DAIKOU project took place in four provinces. The study targeted three of those provinces, each of its have its own distintive features. Individual and collective interviews were done with people in charge of farmers' organizations and member families.
As a result they suggested concrete and pertinent measures to AVSF for a project renewal. They especially setted up with member families and people in charge of farmers' organizations solutions adapted to their problems and their expectations.
AVSF (Agronomes et Vétérinaires sans Frontières)
The KOMRONG-DAIKOU project
Cambodia gets out of one of the graver humanitarian crisis of History : years of wars and intern conflits shaped the political, economical and social landscape of the country. Nowadays Cambodia is a country which 80% of the population lives in a rural area and where rural and urban poverty is omnipresent. In those circumstances many national and international NGOs, such as AVSF, work for the reconstruction of the civil society in order to give them the tools to get out of the poverty cycle.
The KOMRONG DAIKOU project falls within this approach. It took place from 2007 to 2010 in four Cambodian provinces : Batambang, Kampong Thom, Prey Veng and Takeo. 120 farmers'organizations, that is to say 4 200 families, benefited from the technical and methodological support from AVSF.
AVSF is a NGO internationally knowned that aims to reduce poverty in rural areas. Indeed it works since thirty years for rural populations of developing countries. Thanks to its experience, its wide establishment and its development politic for the most destitute people, AVSF is a major player for development in the world.
AVSF leads almost 60 development projects in 19 countries. It works through support actions for sustainable management of natural resources, perennial development of breeding and farming and strenghtening of farmers' organizations.
In Cambodia the association acts in collaboration with local and technical partners such as ADA (Agricultural Development Action), a Cambodian NGO, and the DAE (Department of Agricultural Extension). Those structures are also serious partners AYEM worked with to carry out its project.
The main purpose of the KOMRONG DAIKOU project was to guarantee food security structuring and strenghtening farmers' organizations. The actions leaded by AVSF enabled them to give to their members :
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the possibility to develop economical activities of greater scope
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an access to quality services in agriculture and animal health (credit, technical innovation diffusion, farming products commercialization)
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the opportunity to give their interests to the regional and national decision-makers to influence more the agricultural politics
To get more information about AVSF and about the KOMRONG DAIKOU project : http://www.avsf.org/en
More information about the project 2014