Community Development, Cambodia

Training session in a Svay Rieng village led by an extension worker. Rice granary is in the background. Photo: CWS

CWS-Cambodia

CWS-Cambodia is helping to build a strong civil society in Cambodia, and working to help improve the standard of living of poor and vulnerable people, the equality of women, and overall peace.

The CWS Community Development Program is focusing on four strategic aims:

implementing an integrated community development project in Kompong Thom Province;

starting a water sanitation project in Svay Rieng Province and developing strategies for working with community councils;

strengthening the capacity of project staff in their approaches to community development work; and

phasing out CWS support in selected communities in Kompong Thom and Svay Rieng, as local organizations are able to take over development initiatives.

More than 4,500 families (about 22,500 people) are benefiting from this project, which is monitoring and providing technical support to the community development projects in Kompong Thom and Svay Rieng provinces. The project's impact: More efficient and effective development workers, including local CWS staff, as they implement community development work in the two provinces.

Support for Church World Service helps make this program possible.

Updated 1/25/2006

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