PROGRAMME DESIGN DOCUMENT Leuk Daek Area Development Programme World Vision Cambodia Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 1 Table of Contents 1 Programme summary 1.1 Programme profile 2 Design methodology 3 Context for child well-being 3.1 Environmental context 3.2 Social Context 3.3 Political Context 4 Child well-being status 4.1 Children enjoy good health 4.2 Children are educated for life 4.3 Children love God and their neighbour 4.4 Children are cared for, protected and participating 5 Programme rationale 5.1 Strategic importance 6 Programme description 6.1 Programme goal and outcomes 6.2 Programme approach 7 Programme transition 7.1 Management of the Transition process 8 Learning and knowledge management strategy 8.1 Baseline Study 8.2 Knowledge management and learning 8.3 Programme evaluation 9 General implementation strategy 10 Management and administration 10.1 National office capacity 10.2 Programme structure 11 References 12 Appendices Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 6 6 8 10 10 10 15 16 16 17 19 19 20 20 24 24 25 30 32 35 35 36 37 37 38 38 39 40 40 Page 2 List of acronyms AC Agriculture Cooperative ACSCED Agriculture Cooperative for Sustainable community economic development ADP Area Development Programme ADPTLF ADP team leader forum AIDS Acquire immune deficiency syndrome ALN Action Learn Network APR Annual Progress Report ARV Anti retrovirus BBB Birth Day Bound Back CCDM Commune Committee for Disaster Management CDHS Cambodian Development Health Survey CDMD Cambodian Development Mission for Disability CIP Commune Investment Plan CLTS Community Lead Total Sanitation CMS Child Monitoring System CPN Child Protection Network CSMP Child Sponsorship management project CVA Citizen Voice of Action CWBO Child Well Being Outcome DCDM District Committee for Disaster Management DME Design Monitoring and Evaluation DOE District of Education FGD Focus Group Discussion FNL Food and Nutrition livelihood FY Fiscal Year HC Health Centre HEFC Health Equity Fund Committee HHS Household Survey IPC Indirect Project Cost IPM Integrated Programming Model ITT Indicator Tracking Table KSA Knowledge Skill and Attitude LDR Labour Distribution Report LFT Learning for transformational MCCP Mobilizing Community for Child Protection Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 3 MCHN Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition MFI Micro finance Institutes MoEYS Ministry of Education youth and Sport MSC/SC Most significant Change/ story of Change NGO Non Government Organization NO National Office NPM National Policy Management OI Opportunity Infection OMO Operations Monitoring Officer OOCA Office Operation Cost Allocation P&C People and Culture PBAS Partnership Budget and Actual System PC Project Coordinator PDA Provincial Department of Agriculture PDD Program Design Document PDM Performance development management PLHIV People Living with HIV PMIS Program Management Information System PNC Post Natal Care PoA Plan of Action RC Registered Children RCF Register Children Families SC Student Council SDPC Share Direct project cost SEA Sexual exploitation SHG Self Help Group SO Support Office SSC School Support Committee STEP Sponsorship Tracking Enhancement Program STO Sector Technical Officer TD Transformational Development TDF Transformational Development Facilitator TDFTL Transformational Development Facilitator team leader UN United Nation VDC Village Development Committee VFC Vision Fund Cambodia Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 4 VHSG Village Health Support Group WASH Water and Sanitation Hygiene WFC Water Festival Card WHO World Health Organization WVC World Vision Cambodia WVUS World Vision United States Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 5 1 Programme summary 1.1 Programme profile National Office Name Programme Name Programme Goal Programme Outcomes World Vision Cambodia Leuk Daek Area Development Program Children are healthy, completed quality basic education and live in peace. Outcome #1 To contribute to the transformation of Registered Children, their families, communities and sponsors. Outcome #2 All children, pregnant and lactating women are healthy, well nourished, and protected from preventable diseases. Outcome #3 Children in target commune especially poor and poorest students completed quality basic education. Programme Impact Area Population Male 6,440 Female 6,508 Boy 3,863 Girl 4,040 Male 4,000 Female 6,508 Boy 1,738 (project estimated number of male births in 2013-15 based on ministry of planning data) Girl 2,080 (project estimated number of girl births in 2013-15 based on ministry of planning data) Programme Direct Participants for education Male 1,267 (994 ID Poor1&2 people, 84 teachers, 95 SSCs members, and 94 AC members ) Programme Direct Participants for MCHN Female 1,631 (1,180 ID Poor1&2, 62 teachers, 13 SSCs members, 376 AC members) Boy 3,029 [(Statistic student in school 2,432 (poor boys 241) and poor boys in community 597] Estimated Duration of Programme life Programme Phase Programme Phase Budget Anticipated Funding Source(s) Girl 2,469 [(Statistic student in schools 1,936(poor girls 293) and poor girls in community 533)] 15 years (FY01-FY15) Phase 3 ( Transition phase) 933,500 USD (3yrs) Source #1 -Type of funding Sponsorship -Grant funding for MCCP project funded by FEC/PNS funding. - Grant funding for ACSCED project funded by World Vision Australia. Registered Children Numbers Current Number of RC 2,500 RCs, 48% of boys and 52% girl Estimated number of RC for Year 1 2,500 RCs (FY13) Year 2 2,000 RCs (FY14) Year 3 1,000 RCs (FY15) Support Office Name National Office review of PDD: Review date Reviewer’s name and title National Office approval/agree of PDD: Approval date Approvers name and title Date Design Document first Submitted to SO World Vision United Sates Please see attached review tools OD/MQD/PQL SOM 12 July 2012( Should be updated whoever send last) Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 6 Support Office review of PDD: Review date Reviewer’s name and title Support Office approval of PDD: Approval date Approvers name and title Estimated Start Date of this Phase 1st October 2013 Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 7 2 Design methodology A mid-term evaluation of Leuk Daek ADP was conducted and completed in July 2011 by an external consultant with support from NO staffs and line management to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the program. To prepare for the process of re-design for transition, ADP staffs (05 PCs, 01 ADP manager and 03 TDFs) reviewed the evaluation and attended redesign training on 19-23 September 2011 and sector workshop on 24-28 October 2011 at Phnom Penh city. ADP staffs learned on how to process re-design with community and also key partners. Before ADP staffs conducted meeting with community, they conducted the IPM self assessment review tool on 08 November 2011 and subsequently developed a plan of action which they implemented .within the design process like inviting children to share their needs and recommendations. ADP staffs also prepared key messages box and shared key results of evaluation with the community. The messages helped community members to know where they are and what they intend to improve in the next three years. By using participatory approach, community shared their ideas to put in re-design; they raised and prioritized hot issues, which form the basis for selecting projects in the transition phase. We conducted three community workshops in the three target communes: in Preak Dech commune on 22-24 November 2011, Peam Rang commune on 13-15 December 2011 and Khbop Atav commune on 20-22 December 2011. There were 117 persons participated in the workshop. They were:one District of Education officer, 2 Commune Council members, 10 village leaders, 3 Self Help Group representatives, 11 Village Development Committee members, 5 HC staffs, 29 youths, 17 school teachers, 3 church leaders, 17 Village Health Support Groups, and 19 Agriculture Cooperative leaders. Besides community people, WVC staffs also participated such as operations manager, ADP manager, zonal health, technical officer for economic and agriculture, education, transformational development facilitators, transformational development team leader, and project coordinators To verify community needs, ADP staffs invited key partners and stakeholders to review community’s plan. There were 38 persons who participated such as one Chief of Provincial Department of Education, Sports and Youth, one Deputy of Director of Provincial Health Department, one Vice-District Governor, 2 Operational District Officers, 3 Health Centre staffs, 3 commune leaders, one District Agriculture Officer, one from the District of Education, one District of Hydrology Officer, 7 youths, 4 school teachers, 10 villager leaders and 3 AC leaders. Afterwards, key partners such as DOE staffs and also HC staffs developed solution tree on 10 February 2012. After solution tree meeting, partners and staffs came up with draft logframe. Two projects were established in response to the issues of community besides of sponsorship project such as Health and Nutrition and Education Projects. Other sectors such as disaster and agriculture, community decided to integrate into education project because the same root causes. For example, child dropout of school, the main root cause Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 8 is family’s income that is not enough to support children go to school, so community decided to integrate to education project. To make sure the log-frame aligned with secondary strategy of WVC, ADP manager, PCs and TDFTL attended design workshop on 20-24 February 2012 at Phnom Penh city. Then, through face to face review on log-frame and also through email, ADP got result for program log-frame and submitted to line management and also SO to approval. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 9 3 Context for child well-being 3.1 Environmental context Status Leuk Daek district has natural resources such as lowland forest with tall trees in amount of 14,512 hectares and rivers, lakes, and canals in amount of 8,194 hectares. These are potential resources for fish to grow and it also brings water for doing farming. Moreover, community people could catch fish for food and also for selling. However some human actions have affected the climate. The spread out of gas and other industrial pollutants from garment factory and also from Vietnam has polluted the waters. Land erosion on the river banks has also been observed. Other climate changes have intensified natural disasters that have affected the province and this district as well such as drought and flood. The recent flood damaged and destroyed household assets, livestock, crops and killed human lives and animals. To cope with these, WVC and local authority formed structure both at district and commune level to respond to the disaster by building the capacity of committee members. Existing structure, by supporting from WVC, conducted awareness to community on danger sign, preparedness plan and also responded plan for all kinds of disaster to safe for people including children. Analysis Lowland forest, river and also canal are potential resource that community could benefit from these. However, there are many challenges like community destroyed lowland forest to be firewood and sell for income. Community also has an illegal fishing by using materials that are not allowed by the law. So it reduces the fish from time to time. Moreover, community dropped garbage improperly including garbage tangible and also liquid. Those affected to hygiene, health and lost beauty of village compound. In addition, community has used much pesticide that affected to multi-biology and polluted the environment. There have been structure of disaster committee, but their capacity is still limited, especially they have not enough funding to respond when disaster happened. 3.2 Social Context The population in Leuk Daek district is 55,633 persons including 18,539 females, 17,735 males, 9,481boys and 9,878 girls. The density of population is 185 persons/square metres. 90.24% are farmers; their income is depended on agriculture products. Besides agriculture products, community earned income through fishing, garment factory worker, and also government staffs. Buddhist religion is 95 %, Christian 4% and Tao 1%. Currently, Leuk Daek ADP has 2,500 RCs. 3.2.1 Most Vulnerable Groups Status Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 10 Disabled persons, widows, children under 5 years old from poor families, pregnant women, PLHIVs, and those who are categorized as Poor 1 & 2 by the government are identified as vulnerable people. They have neither intention nor ability to access the services of health centre because they are engrossed with working or finding work to earn daily income to support their families every day. They focused less on protecting themselves and preventing illnesses. They did not also keep their children in school longer due to their limited family economic capacities. These groups earn small incomes and are at high risk in facing health and education problems. Most children born to poor families do not get fully immunized because their parents are more concerned with day to day survival rather than bringing their children to the Health Centers for immunization. Most children who are malnourished have parents who did not breastfeed them during the first six months nor gave them the proper nutritious complementary foods nor did they have enough nutritious food to feed them. Some of children, they did not stay longer in school because they were forced to stop studying to work for income generation. However, previous time, ADP supported poor children in nourished food like soybean and most of them improved nutrition status. Poor students were supported like study materials and they also were took care by teacher when they went to school because ADP always aware to school teacher to treat then as same as other. Analysis The children who drop out of school are mostly from vulnerable families whose parents do not value education much because they spend all their time working in order to meet their most basic need for food. Hence they allow their children to migrate for work. For example, children dropped out school to work at garment factory in local area and also go to Phnom Penh city. Not having much education and skills, the children sometimes fall into unsafe situations where their safety and health are placed at risk. This is why that they spend much money when they get sick. 3.2.2 Civil Society Civil Society Status: Lately the government through the Provincial Agriculture Department has promoted the formation of agricultural cooperatives which actually allows for cooperatives that are not only focused on agricultural activities. Seeing this as a way to contribute to building economic resilience the ADP has availed of this opportunity. Agriculture cooperative (AC) was established by the Provincial Agriculture Department of Kandal with support by ADP. ADP staffs and agriculture officers worked together to complete all steps of forming from step one to five. Step 1 is to orient the AC concept. Step 2, disseminate royal degree to community and let them know what is community, how can it sustain, how does government support on that. Through this step, community understood and consider for becoming to be AC member. Step 3 is to draft by-law. In step 4, community who wanted to become member of AC, they came together and vote to select the best leaders to lead the AC. This is the way that ADP leads community people to apply democracy by using their choice. Leaders of AC are called board members. They worked together to implement the business plan of AC through assembly meeting. In the by-law of AC, there is no someone making decision without agreement from other members even he/she is chairman. The benefit of AC will be shared to Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 11 members and keep some for community development. They also decided to use reserve fund for supporting poor child education and any emergency response of their members. Besides implementer as board member, AC has monitoring committee to monitor the performance of AC board to ensure they have worked in the right ways. AC is not only an idea of WVC concept to establish it, but also government structure that it wanted to engage community people to be a group which is easy to support them rather than individual household. Before ADP staffs and PDA officers worked to establish AC, all members of AC came from self help group (SHG). SHG is a group from 10-20 members who worked together for saving money, loan to members and also shared any agriculture technique to member to improve how to grow the rice and also corn. Moreover, they met each other every month to share their concern and solve the problem together. It is very helpful for them to make a good relationship. SHG is an initiative of WVC staffs that wanted them to be socialized. Health Equity Fund Committee is a group that initiated by ADP staffs under fully support of district governor to mobilize community resource to support the vulnerable people when they got sick and have no ability to pay for health service. Recently, this committee at district level is recognized by district governor, district monk leader and also operational district. The structure is allowed the monk to be chairman because monk is able to mobilize community resource through religious activities. In addition, committee have built their capacity to manage the resource with transparency. These are the ways that vulnerable are focused through mobilizing community themselves to help each other. Table: Agencies working in the programme impact area Organisation or Group Location Agriculture Cooperative Leuk Daek district Vision Fund Cambodia National Office with WVC School Support Committees Primary school in Leuk Daek Local Churches Leuk Daek Amret, microfinance institute. Leuk Daek branch office. Kredit, microfinance Leuk Daek branch Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Goals To engage community members to be a group for doing business in the area of agriculture. Support loan to the poor/poorest community including WV community partners. School development planning, manage transparent program budget and child monitoring for education. Mobilize children for education and strengthen spiritual development for community of faith. To provide a wide range of financial services for low income people as well as micro, small and medium enterprises-while at the same time achieving a high level of financial and social performance. To be a reliable and well Start and End Dates 2011-Present 2005-present 2003-present 2000-present 2001-present 2006-present Page 12 Organisation or Group Location institute. office. ACLEDA Leuk Daek branch office PRASAC Leuk Daek branch office AMK Cambodia Leuk Daek branch office Cambodian Development Mission for Disability (CDMD) Office base in Phnom Penh The Cambodia Trust Office base in Phnom Penh MARIE STOPES INTERNATIONAL CAMBODIA Office base in Phnom Penh Goals known financial institution that provides diverse and innovative financial solutions to communities, serving and protecting our clients while maintaining organizational sustainability with a commitment to the poor. To provide micro, small and medium entrepreneurs with the wherewithal to manage their financial resources efficiently and by doing so to improve the quality of their lives. To provide sustainable access to financial services for rural communities and micro-enterprises. To help large numbers of poor people to improve their livelihood options through the delivery of appropriate and viable microfinance services. Is working towards an inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society for people with disabilities. To increase disabled people's mobility and functional skills. Provide reproductive and sexual health services. Start and End Dates 2008-present 2010-present 2009-present 1999-present 2011-present 2009-present World Vision History in the Area Leuk Daek ADP is one of four ADPs in the Kandal Province operations area. It was the second ADP in Kandal operations to start with child sponsorship management project in 2002 and now Leuk Daek ADP has 2,500 RCs funded by WV USA. Leuk Daek ADP started its Assessment Phase in April 2000; its first 5-year design was from October 2002 to September 2007 and its second implementation phase was from October 2008-Sepetmber 2012. Currently, the program covers 3 communes with 10 villages include 4,338 families with total 20,851 people (10,548 females) who are direct beneficiaries. Around 2007 the ADP reduced the number of households to align with the parameters of WVC’s new ADP model, which aims to deepen TD and facilitate greater community Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 13 empowerment as emphasized in WV Cambodia’s current National Strategy. As the result, starting from FY 2010, Leuk Daek worked with only 03 communes, 10 villages and 3,998 families with total population equal to 17,853 (10,388 females) for the remaining years of the ADP life span. In the first design, the program has worked in health and nutrition, food and water security, and sponsorship. Besides these three projects, ADP has integrated Mobilizing Communities for Child Protection Project (MCCP) in 3 target villages since October 2006 up to the present with technical support from the Peace and Justice Program. This project has been working within communities (youth, adult, children and local authority) and utilised a number of techniques including conscientization and social mobilisation for ongoing community engagement on child protection issues to ensure child is safe from sexual exploitation, abuse, and child labour. There have been many successes and challenges. The main learning was lack of empowerment. It seemed efforts were insufficient to strengthen/build capacity of small/existing group to be development actors in their community, which would be the key to sustainability and ownership. However, the programme was still struggling to empower the village development actors that coincided in the redesign to increase sustainability and impact. The ADP moved towards supporting and forming community groups and working with existing group who will be able to manage activities themselves in the future, as opposed to primarily working with government structures (VDC, CDC etc). This change is in line with WVCs ADP ministry new model in term of ADP structure, staffing, planning, budgeting, reporting and monitoring that we moved from a predominantly needs-based service delivery approach to a community empowerment approach. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 14 3.3 Political Context Status Community development is the primary responsibility of duty bearers, in this case the local authority of Leuk Daek District. Some of their responsibilities and roles are to mobilize other resources both internal and external and also seek good cooperation from outsiders including private sector and other NGOs in order to respond to community needs and challenges. For example, they mobilized resource for supporting canal renovation, culvert construction, repair school building, playground, and also encouraged community people to construct household latrine in the target areas. Moreover, when the flood and other kind of disasters happened, local authority helped community especially vulnerable such as supported food, small amount of money and also settlers. Any issue related to child issue, community’s conflict are solved by local authority to make fair for community by following the law/royal degree. However, the capacities of local authorities is still limited in spreading information widely and providing public services towards ensuring safe migration, preventing or stopping child labour and gambling and also prevent school drop outs. Mainly, their capacity and focus is ensuring security of populace. While Besides this, the commune council consists of many party members who involved in development tasks. So that, this make democracy environment in term of participation together for improving living condition of people in community. However, the members from dominant party seem to dominate and influence on other members from other party in term of decision making on some particular development activities. National Committee for sub-national Democratic Development (NCDD) through supported from UN agency like UNDP have recently been more aggressive in supporting the Cambodia mandate on decentralisation, which actually empowers local level authorities to implement development activities. Recently, the Commune Council has been authorized to use commune funding allocated from the national government to respond to community development needs. When they decided to use commune fund, they identified community needs and developed the village development plan. Despite their increasing power and expanding role, the Commune Council has limited budget to do as needed. Local authority did less for software such as on creating community awareness on laws and other information, which affects them. They continue to depend on outsiders like NGOs especially for child protection, health awareness and interventions on improving child education. Local author also focused much on their role especially role in the party because they are dependent on the party to hold their position. For example, when NGOs invited for the meeting, they often joined, but if it is conflicted with party meeting, they rejected NGOs activity even the NGOs already scheduled with them. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 15 Analysis The focus by local authority on providing hardware rather than build community capacities is driven by the need to stay in power because physical and material assets are tangible assets and can be displayed to validate their leadership. The communities want and need information such as budget from the Ministry of Education to support school development. Community want to see a view green of school compound and also improve the quality of education, but school teachers explained them that education sector has not budget to support that need. Moreover, community do not have access to information on the services and the quality of those services required of health center personnel, so health centre staffs do not provide good service for poor/vulnerable. Health Centre staffs always blame them when they go to the center for health services or they say that HC do not have enough materials to support that service, but when their party members come to visit, they could provide as needed. In the ways to improve the health service, ADP run role as initiator to work with OD and HC chief to build capacity of HC staffs to have skill for taking care/cure community when they went to get the service. Up to now, the number of clients has increased because the service is improved through the training. Besides this, HCMC is a group to give constructive feedback to HC staffs. Actually, most feedback is considered and acted upon. For example, community compliant about working time of HC staffs is very short time per day (4 hours in the morning), but now it was improved and community could access service 24 hours per day because HC staffs arranged staffs to keep in routine work. Most of community people certified the HC service. Second, related to partisan politics, local authorities intend to benefit party members and families. For example, when flood happened, material supports are provided to their party members first even with commune funds. This political dynamic therefore requires the ADP to prioritize building and sustaining community capacities to advocate for them in ways that are culturally acceptable so that duty bearers hold themselves accountable to their constituents. 4 Child well-being status 4.1 Children enjoy good health 4.1.1 Status Referred to the child growth monitoring report (compared weight for age) from project, it illustrated that there was only 12% out of 581 children U2 who are malnourished in December 2011. Thus, 88% of children are well nourished. Based on JUMSTART evaluation 2012, it showed that for national level chronic malnutrition (stunting) is 31.3%, underweight is 23.7%. Wasting is 7.7%. According to the result of ADP evaluation in 2011, 90% of children under one year old got full immunization through good quality of outreach service of health center. Compared to Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 16 the national target of only 80%, so that it is good result for protecting children from infection. The full immunization children could avoid from 7 kinds of disease such as tuberculosis, hepatitis B, measles, polio, whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria diseases. In order to reduce mortality rate of children, diarrhea management is considered critical. Evaluation result showed that only 15.5% of children with diarrhea were managed correctly. The use of Oral Rehydration Therapy was low (23%) with many households giving a pill or syrup as treatment instead. They used medicines to treat the children when they got diarrhea because they could access the private clinic. Evaluation 2011 results revealed 91% of households drank boiled water and washed their hands before having meal. Environment around their houses was kept clean by burying garbage and taking other steps to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds. Health staffs reported a notable reduction in dengue fever and some other diseases. Maternal and child health and nutrition project (MCHN) has worked with health centre and also village health support group (VHSG). Both HC staffs and VHSGs had improved capacity and knowledge to support health activities. The report illustrated that HC staffs and its services were much improved and 83.5% of the population were satisfied or very satisfied with services because ADP has important input in terms of improving knowledge, staff attitudes and management through the HC Management Committee under closely cooperation with local authority. 4.1.2 Analysis Children were protected in some kinds of vaccination because mother more understood on important of immunization. Mothers have changed behaviour to take care their children; especially they applied as technical of health message. Remaining areas for improvement in the HC were speed and availability of services, and poor attitudes from a minority of staff, so community could access health service when they need. Outreach services had greatly improved accessibility, particularly for immunisation, anti-natal care and post natal care, so community could access health service both at HC location and also at village level. Moreover, program impacted area has high commitment from most VHSGs to advise for health message in community, so community could access health information through them. Up to now, health system is being strengthened; health centre service is a bit improvement as HC staffs are available most of time a day. HCMC is a committee that could help to improve the health service through the meeting by raising up any concerns of community to solve together. However, for some of vulnerable people, they did not focus much on health care, so their health conditions are not good. The ADP will continue to implement MCHN to sustain the gains made and to improve those areas that still showed poor outcomes. 4.2 Children are educated for life 4.2.1 Status Education performance indicators have improved as community understood and valued education because they decided to send their children to go to school at the proper school-age. Actually, there were over 90% of younger children attending school through evaluation report 2011. Children of poor families attended school at proper school-age. Only 5.5% of students dropped out of school while only 11.6% of school students repeat class in primary grade; still these children’s future will be affected for life because they do Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 17 not have enough capacity to earn income through their education. However the performance is alarmingly low with lower secondary – only 46.3% completed Grade 9. However the school environment has improved, thus encouraging children to go to school because their school compound is green and clean. The quality of education has improved to a certain degree, at least in primary school because teachers’ capacities have been enhanced through ADP support. They could use students centre approach to teach students and make them easy to understand. Because of education quality, students could read and calculate number as their grade. The ADP also initiated and coordinated with DOE to improve the library management by conducting the library skills training to all librarians including how to motivate and direct children’s reading activities. Youth and children’s capacities have been built through peace road club curriculum. They developed skills for emotional management and constructive relationships. In addition, they also learned on how to analyse the situation that can make them vulnerable and how to protect themselves when those situations arise. 4.2.2 Analysis The migration of young students for work is a concern because they dropped out school from 14 years old. They could not complete the basis education, so their abilities are not enough for earning income. They will lose opportunity for business because knowledge is low. They will therefore use their labour instead of their knowledge and end up earning very low and seasonal incomes. Unsafe migration is also a concern because they are too young, they are easy to be influenced by bad persons to do anything against the law and they also could be exploited by others. While primary education indicators have improved, it is not so with lower-secondary school. The ineffective school management system of class teachers affects the quality of teaching. Some teachers are not well prepared to teach and there is poor monitoring of teachers. This contributes to school drop outs. While the Ministry of Education Youth and Sport has launched a national education policy to achieve education for all by 2015, there has not been much support to teachers in terms of pay. With very low salaries, teachers have had to look to other income earning activities to support their families. So this problem affected to their performance on teaching children in compliance with student-centre and child friendly school methodology. The culture of reading was still a concern because some students did not involve in library activities. Library facilities are not enough for children, some school shared library space with school office, so students do not feel confident to join because they are afraid of teachers. SSC is an existing group to support the school development but only around 50% of SSCs are functioning well based on community reflection. They could not assist school as needed because their capacity is limited and they also have many works to do in community and thus cannot commit to do SSC activities. This is an unhealthy state because SSC is seen to be one of the community mechanisms to sustain the quality of teaching and learning outcomes and good performance in enrolment, completion and transition rates. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 18 4.3 Children love God and their neighbour 4.3.1 Status In Leuk Daek area there is only one main church and some home based churches. The church leaders played important role to share the kingdom of God to members on Sunday. Children get to learn more about the teachings and the values of the Kingdom of God during Christmas celebration. On other occasions such as, Annual Progress Report writing and Water Festival Card, they get to see ADP staffs modeling Christian spirituality such as when staff lead participants to pray to God. Children also learn how to develop positive relationships when they joined the events of sponsorship project that they played the funny game and enjoyed together. Moreover, children learn respect, a sharing attitude and openness to other opinions when they join the children club. Some mothers reported that their children have changed attitude to be polite after they got training from ADP staffs. The culture of caring are promoted through ADP staffs. For example, peer support team went to the house of students who did not attend school regularly and then encouraged their friend to re-schooling. In the children and youth club, members set up the vision. It leads children to have their own vision. 4.3.2 Analysis While there are very few Christians in Leuk Daek ADP area and they can sometimes be discriminated against, many community members respect the Christian faith especially as they see good values, attitudes and behaviour being demonstrated by the staffs. ADP took initiative to partner with local churches/home church and relevant religious groups as the means to promote the sense of caring and loving for their children including RCs. Violence in the family is reducing because community understood more on the law through program interventions. 4.4 Children are cared for, protected and participating 4.4.1 Status In the responding to prevention, protection and restoration approach in child protection program. Leuk Daek has been integrating a non-sponsorship funded sector project named Mobilizing Community for Child Protection (MCCP). The Child Protection Network (CPN) was formed to respond all kinds of child abuse, especially child sexual and exploitation. There was no case without taking action with law procedure. In addition, Cambodian government created the structure in commune level to respond for women and children affair. They were able to support the women and children issue when case happened because they were equipped capacity through government and also WVC. Child sexual abuse and exploitation is associated with many issues such as poverty and unemployment; most of the project partners were not engaged with livelihood activities. To sustain their involvement, the project should consider linking them to other economic activities. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 19 Moreover, children are cared because parents were oriented about the parenting skill and they understood on child rights. Parents also aware the child issue by parent group which formed by the project. Besides, children and youth understood on child rights and child protection. They have skill to protect themselves to avoid from abuse. They were equipped capacity to analyse who should trust on and who are taking risk for children. Children and youth played important role in order to aware their friends on risk related to child abuse. The ADP has been instrumental in promoting birth certificates through the Birthday Bounce Back (BBB) and other project actions. Today parents have fully realized the value of such a document. Youth always raised up their need through village development plan when commune council came to the village to set up the plan within community. Commune council consolidate all the needs including children and youth need to do the budget plan for using the commune fund. The fund is allocated by government. 4.4.2 Analysis While there are existing mechanisms to protect children and care for those whose rights have been violated, the functioning and capacity of these groups remain limited due to turn-over of members and the limited commitment of some members. A case in point is when children age 14 years old and up dropped out of school to work, the local authority could not respond on that issue. Some members only report to the village and commune chiefs when abuses are committed although there are other authorities and agencies that as well those should respond to such cases such as the police officer. There are some concerns of the sustainability of the Child Protection Network (CPN) and youth groups. Some of problems the groups were faced with lost members are financial and time constraints, irregular meetings, and limited capacity. It appears that the youth groups could carry on some activities after the project is phased out, but the CPN could not. Some CPN members didn’t know about their roles and responsibilities and were not active. Some groups also didn’t have regular meetings in recent months. 5 Programme rationale 5.1 Strategic importance 5.1.1 Programme selection There were significant achievements and good impact indicated from the evaluation in 2011 and from overall observation by both World Vision staff and community members and authorities. These are highlighted elsewhere in the report. However there are areas that need to be addressed during the transition period. In education, while enrolment rate for all school-­‐aged children has gone high and completion rate at Grade 6 already acceptable, completion rate for Grade 9 is still very low at 46.3% therefore education is still prioritized. Like in almost all of Cambodia including even urban centers, malnutrition still persists and access to clean and safe drinking water is still low. Thus health and nutrition with WASH is likewise prioritized. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 20 The focus will be on strengthening the capacities of stakeholders and community partners to sustain the positive gains made towards CWB. Networks will be enhanced so that community groups will have access to more resources from government and other civil society groups including private sector to help them lead and manage their groups and implement activities that will benefit their families and communities.Thus the ADP will strengthen the capacities of existing government structures such as the Health Centre Management Committee and SSCs is to address problems and availability of services (with health for HC to deliver services particularly at night and weekends, and in relation to emergencies and births). Wider feedback from the community and VHSG (including possibly community meetings), out of hours contact arrangements and possible partnership with some private health providers could be considered by this committee. 5.1.2 Contribution to local strategic priorities According to decentralization and sub-decentralization approach of government of Cambodia, commune must have own planning that called commune investment plan (CIP). The commune plan must involve from key persons, community and also children, thus the plan is responded to the needs of community. ADP is an actor that contributes to government approach. ADP always involved in commune investment plan through meeting and supporting gaps in their investments. ADP staffs always conducted community need with village leaders and village leaders raised to commune level, thus ADP plan is in harmony with the commune plan. With the design process phase 3 resulting from the input of community representatives, the local authorities, health centre, school, church, youth club, and RC families, the program redesign is really contributing towards achieving the outcomes in commune and also district plans. Referred to 05 years development plan of district council (page 10-11), program design is contributing to economic development that increase the rice/corn yield production, reducing of animal disease. For social sector, ADP design is contributing to the complete basic education, reducing mortality rate of mothers and children, strengthen health service to provide immunization to all children, improve accessing health service for community people, improve hygiene in community through using latrine and safe water. In addition, MCCP is contributing to violence reduction in the community. 5.1.3 Importance to community and partner priorities With the design process using a highly participatory approach whereby communities and other partners analyzed the causes of each issue and to plan corresponding actions, we are confident that the re-design addresses the priorities of our partner communities and other stakeholders. There are 2 main priorities issues identified as the real problems and need of poor in community. The first priority is related to maternal and child health including sanitation issues through integrated community lead total sanitation (CLTS) and the second issue is related to education and economic productivity. These specific priorities have been integrated into each specific project design. To ensure program remains responsive to community’s issues and priorities, the ADP staffs will work closely with local authority and existing groups such as ACs, SSC, YC/CC, and local Church as partner to mobilize resources and network with other NGOs and other stakeholders to sustain the development gains that have been made. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 21 In addition, the program was recommended in order to overcome all these complicated problems. The programme contributes to achieve the development priorities of the local communities and partners by including the community issues based into program redesign through facilitating them to identify root cause of problems as issue to be address and identify internal and external resources to respond to the issues. 5.1.4 Contribution to WV strategic priorities Currently WVC is focusing on two main issues, because of the particular context of Cambodia. The first is Health and Nutrition because of high rates of child malnutrition still persists in the country. 39.9% of children are stunted (chronically malnourished). Acute malnutrition (wasting) has increased to 10.9%; such a rate is categorized by WHO as a serious emergency. Underweight among children under 5 remains stagnant at 28%. Cambodia remains one of 33 alarming or extremely alarming countries in the world in terms of hunger and under nutrition. The effects of malnutrition on the individual, community and society are irreversible and far-reaching: poor brain development, poor school performance, poor productivity and a burden to society. Second is Education. Children's learning outcomes remain low due to shortages of school facilities, and also library facilities, textbooks and learning resource materials, qualified and competent teachers and the limited engagement of the community in support to their children's education, according to the MoEYS. National net enrolment rate at the lower secondary level is only 31.9 % while at the higher secondary level it is a dismal 19.4%. There is still disparity between girls and boys, with fewer girls completing high school. WV Cambodia National Strategy provided this strategic focus. While WVC has incorporated all four Child Well-being Aspirations into the national strategy, WVC wants to see focus on child health and nutrition and education. In responding to WVC strategy, Leuk Daek program has designed to empower children and community and transform structure and system. The program created space for local authority, health centres, school directors, and the vulnerable poor communities to have dialogue for common issues addressing that will lead to change government structure and systems by integrating the concept of advocacy like citizen voice action (CVA) to lead community and children to raise up what they need to request for support from local authority. In addition, the program integrated community into village development plan (VDP) and also commune investment plan (CIP) to responding to Youth and Children Clubs as social issue activities raising for prevention, protection and restoration for children. In the VDP and CIP, community are empowered to share what they need to develop their village and commune. Their need are raised up and prioritized by commune council to use the fund from government. Leuk Daek program also supports community need as to support CIP. To reach this program, ADP staffs will change from previous intervention approach and process to focus more on community empowerment approach. And shift from “implementer/practitioner” toward “facilitator” by partnering at all levels with community and government institutions to transform systems and structures toward sustained CWBO. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 22 5.1.5 Learning from previous programme experience Community and local authority closely support each other; it is good way to mobilize them to participate in development activities. In addition, building capacity of AC, it is the process to promote ownership and sustainability in their development process. Increasing participation of the poor and vulnerable in development activities strongly contributes to promote transparency of relevant stakeholders, especially government agencies. Registered children and families play important roles in supporting their communities’ development. The program integrated RCs and RC families (RCF) into the above projects to ensure physical and mental care including education, health and nutrition as well as child participation in development activities by facilitating them into RC clubs and RC families grouping. However, community behaviour change on health, education, and agriculture technique and child protection as well are still a concern. For example, for mothers who have children under 05 years old, they understood on health message, but they did not apply it all, so child health is still concern. ADP will work with existing group like VHSG to consult one by one to the person who identified did not apply as technical of health. ADP will also work closely with local authority to educate them from time to time and encourage them to apply by address any concern as real case. Community valued more on education, they knew that education can help their child to be better life, but in reality earning an income is top priority so even children are made to work to contribute to family income because daily food, that needs to feed their families member. One more thing, parents have loaned from middle man and company, they must paying back and need more money from time to time to pay for interest and principle why parents is still asked children to stop studying and go to work. Community also used much pesticide on agriculture products that affected to health and is also costly. Parents knew on child rights, but they forced their child to assist them in farming when they study. Below is key lessoned learns from evaluation and also reflection. Table: Lessons learned Learning, finding or conclusions From Assessment, Evaluation or other sources Application to this programme Sustainability of ACs still limited Build capacity of AC leaders to ensure they have enough capacity and are able to lead ACs after the ADP ends. Focus on capacity building on agriculture to individual families. Set up agriculture extension workers to continuing the agriculture technique for villager. Community got debt issue. Working with local authority to aware community people on debt issue and encourage them to save. Health Centre Management Committee’ capacity is still limited Build Capacity to HCMC to deal with issue related to health issue. Number of Post Partum Women accessed to health service is still limited . Cooperated with HC staffs and VHSGs to provide knowledge on dangerous of PNC. Health Equity Fund Committee (HEFC) is not functioned well. Work with local authority and OD to build capacity for HEFC. District Education Office (DEO) monitors to school teachers is still limited. Work with DOE to set clear plan for monitoring on school teacher’s performance. School Support Committee’s Capacity is still limited. Cooperate with DOE and school master to build Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 23 Learning, finding or conclusions From Assessment, Evaluation or other sources Application to this programme capacity for SSC. Student Council’s (SC) capacity is still limited. Work with school master to build capacity for SC to assist on child drop out of school. Applying Child Monitoring Standard is still limited Simplify CMS will be full applied. RC shortfall is concern in program Work with community to monitor RC . Child Protection Network (CPN) is the key partner for community mobilizing for child protection Build capacity for CPN Youth club is the agency to transform parents behaviour and child Increase raising awareness on child abuse, child labour and domestic violence among children and youth Youth and children’s capacity club is still limited Build Capacity for youth and children 6 Programme description 6.1 Programme goal and outcomes 6.1.1 Programme Goal Program goal is “Children are healthy, completed quality basic education and live in peace”. There are five projects (Three projects are funded by WVUS such as sponsorship project, maternal and child and nutrition project and also education project. Two projects more are integrated such as MCCP and ACSCED project with grant funding) that will be working together to achieve the program goal. The projects work for improving health and nutrition by including the community hygiene, strengthening the education system to improve quality of education and reducing the child drop out of school by integrating agriculture technique for student’s parents to do farming for support child education. The project also strengthens the capacity of AC to be functioned for helping the community in addressing on market issue and improve quality of agriculture product. Child protection is integrated into program through sector project to ensure children are protected and cared for. 6.1.2 Programme outcomes Outcome 1: To contribute to the transformation of registered children, their families, communities and sponsors. Description: RCs and their families will be confident to work with sponsorship team in assisting to development work. They know clearly what the benefit of sponsorship program for them and also community. They will also know why WVC phases out from the area and no conflict for all sponsorship process. Outcome 2: All children, pregnant and lactating women are healthy, well nourished, and protected from preventable diseases. Description: In the next three years, program wants to see all children under 2 years old are healthy. The children will be more taken care of as parents apply the health technique. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 24 All pregnant women could access health service both antenatal care and also post natal care. They could prepare the family planning themselves for getting the new children. The lactating women will take care of her children by providing the breast feeding and also nutritious food. For all children under one year old, they will get full immunization. Outcome 3: Children in target commune especially poor and poorest students completed quality basic education. Description: In the next three years, program wants to see the increasing completed basis education of children rate especially poor 1 and poor 2. Program also wants to increase the income generation through community small group and agriculture technique. Community will also have enough abilities to cope with disaster. Outcome 4: To reduce the vulnerability of Cambodian girls and boys to sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, sexual assault, and sexual abuse–deemed child SEA for the purposes of this program to improve the overall capacity of the Cambodian government and civil society to prevent child SEA, protect children, and restore child victim-survivors of SEA. Description: Program under integrated from MCCP project plans to achieve through strategy of preventing new cases and addressing the root causes of sexual abuse, exploitation, and trafficking, ensuring the protection of victim-survivors through legal and social means, and restoring victim-survivors to their communities through direct provision of quality aftercare services. The specific strategies for how WV plans to achieve these aims are elaborated to strengthen the functionality and responsiveness of existing civil society and local government structures and mechanisms that prevent and respond to child SEA, Victims/survivors of SEA (new or reintegrated) are protected from further abuse, exploitation, and/or repeat trauma in the community; and also to facilitate restorative care and, as appropriate, community transition and reintegration for child victim survivors of SEA. 6.2 Programme approach 6.2.1 General programme approach Program aims to see the community sustainability development by working with community small groups like ACs and also existing structure in order to improve child well being outcome. Program staffs will build capacity and coaching them to ensure they are able to deal with community issue and able to advocate to local authority for achieving their dream/vision. Community mobilizing for solidarity and unity will be utilized for all project activities. The program is kept building good relationship and networking among groups and stakeholders. The program takes partnership principles and the participatory approach seriously. Program desires to see community leaders and local authorities performing key roles in the program. TD approach is used in this design implementation. ADP staffs are model to community as God witness and they must change their behaviour first to follow as God model. The change can be humble attitude, willing to help poor/vulnerable and soft word. ADP staffs build good relationship with community people, in that time, ADP staffs also conscientize them and lead them to see the good and bad Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 25 attitude/behaviour for their live. ADP staffs encourage them to change bad habit and do any activities to reach their dream especially to reach child well being outcome. In the implementation, ADP staffs also coaches them and lead them to reflect what they do and set plan for improving. As the WV Development Program Approach proposes, the program will strengthen partnerships with program stakeholders and facilitate more collaboration and coordination between community groups and government authorities and agencies as well as other entities. Program staffs will play role as connector to connect community to network with other institutes and they will support each other. Capacity building is an important approach to help community to change to positive deviance. VDP and CIP are really important for community development after program phasing out. Thus program staffs will work with Commune Council to integrate community needs especially children’s need into that plan. Program staffs will also build capacity to partners on how to do the plan and advocate for priority need. Another way is for community groups to be able to access resources from other institutions for example, access loan from Vision Fund and other MFIs and they are also able to pay back with profitable. Moreover, community mobilization will be used for community development to increase the ownership of community people. Soft advocacy will also be used for the program to learn and apply according to the experience. Program looks for the possible situation to create suitable space for community and local authority or government agencies to have dialogue to deal with the critical issues encountered in community. 6.2.2 Programme partners Parent: They are resource persons to monitor/follow up children status such as education and health problem. They could encourage their children to study hard in term of reading, writing, do home work and send their children to do medical check-up in case child at serious illness. Moreover, RCs are allowed to participate in sponsorship activities if those RC parents well understood on sponsorship and the importance of sponsorship for development in their community. Therefore, program will keep providing sponsorship awareness to let all RCs parents to value on education and health to keep them know about consent agreement between ADP and parents that is to let children go to school and taking care children. District Education Officer: They are an important key partner to assist the program direction for education approach to complete the basis education of children. They also could provide the data for progressing the education and advises for change if needed. They could also monitor the school performance and provide teacher training to improve the quality of education. School Directors: They are key important partners to improve the quality of education sector. They could manage the school teachers to provide general teaching to children at school by following Ministry of Education Youth and Sport (MoEYS) curriculum, and guideline. They could manage the school to promote children to study hard and enjoy playing in school. It encourages children to go to school. They could promote the child to Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 26 strongly involve in education. They actively educate the children related to education, child protection, hygiene and sanitation. Sponsorship staffs could collaborate with them in child monitoring for responding to the child education concern. School Support Committee: They are multiple persons who come from local authority, and potential person in community. They are willing to assist in developing the school. They could mobilize the community to share the fund and also labour to develop the school. They also could engage other partner to help the school like NGOs and private sectors. They could help programs staffs in mobilizing and monitoring school development and also assist to address the issue related to education. Operational District: They could provide the technical for HC staffs and also VHSGs in term of health. They also assist the program in planning and monitoring to HC staffs to provide the quality of health service at HC located and outreach. In term of administrative work, they could also assist program staffs to reduce that work by consult on easy ways like phone except any important works. Health center: In general health center staffs will provide health care services to local community people. That service could assist the program staffs to improve the child well being especially on children enjoys good health. They also support ADP in providing medical checkup for RCs during APR and WFC. AC: Partnering to improve solidarity improving condition of the poor 1 and poor 2 by conducted saving, meeting, sharing lessons learned. They also facilitate their members to do the business that allowed by PDoA and earn income for their member. They also assist to the program for engaging community as group to be easy for developing and decision making. They also assist program for contributing profit for community development through bylaw setting. Youth Club: its group facilitate with community especially children club, and CPN for community awareness, training on child individual safety, child prevention, child abuse, and domestic violent deduction. They are also agent to transform community especially for violence parents and brick worker parents to concentrate on children education. Local authorities: They play an important role to create opportunity for program staffs to mobilize and empower the community people especially the poor/poorest people, AC member and children to join the development process and to be able to manage by their own development activities. Program aims to get involvement from local authority as they are partner for community development. Additionally, their role is to manage and support community small group for sustainable development. Vision Fund: This institute will provide loan to community people to run their business. Particularly, VFC will provide the knowledge to clients on how to make their business plan and the way of operating successful business, especially PLHA in target areas. It contributes to program activities that just only provide technical to community people. Thus, community could get technical from program staffs and could do business through accessing loan. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 27 CREDIT: To be a reliable and well known financial institution that provides diverse and innovative financial solutions to communities, serving and protecting our clients while maintaining organizational sustainability with a commitment to the poor. ACLEDA: To provide micro, small and medium entrepreneurs with the wherewithal to manage their financial resources efficiently and by doing so to improve the quality of their lives. AMRET: To provide a wide range of financial services for low income people as well as micro, small and medium enterprises - while at the same time achieving a high level of financial and social performance. AMK: To help large numbers of poor people to improve their livelihood options through the delivery of appropriate and viable microfinance services. PRASAS: To provide sustainable access to financial services for rural communities and micro-enterprises. 6.2.3 Child Sponsorship Child Sponsorship Management Project (CSMP) will integrate work plan with other projects and ensure they are strongly focused on child well-being to ensure children especially RCs participate in program activities implemented by various project staffs in the aim to benefit directly or indirectly to RCs since ADP integration plan made and monitoring tool provided. ID card scanner and simplify CMS will also help to achieve this. The CSM Project will identify or prioritise activities that would increase participation and benefit to children. All program staffs will also help to monitor RCs in term of participation, health care, child protection and education while conducting meeting/training in community. Moreover, the project will also conduct sponsorship awareness by using IEC materials through community refresher meeting, ID card scanner orientation, and both semi and annual reflection to assure community on-going support and go along the way together on sponsorship journey. Regarding the RC mapping the project cooperated with ADP staffs to identify RC families for program activities response. RCs monitoring still needed and conducted by TDFs according to Child Monitoring Standard. All child participation and benefit are collected and entered into Sponsorship Tracking Enhancement Program (STEP) system. STEP has recorded child data which could be accessible by sponsors or support office. The CSMP encourage increasing participation of community people including RCs and families by strengthening capacity of potential key partners in term of information sharing to community people, and playing role dealing with difficult RC families in relation to the development anticipation, health promotion, and child protection. Moreover, project will follow up with community small groups through cooperation with ADP staffs to ensure those groups have function to monitor and follow up RCs in any special circumstance. In case of those need support in the field of building capacity on monitoring process, sponsorship team will provide training or refresher to them. Significantly, Sponsorship team also play role to awake RC parents to follow up on RC education and health issues which primarily caring and protection for their children during home visit. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 28 The factor that contribute to effect the implementation of child sponsorship is that program has good cooperation with local authorities and potential community partners and ADP staffs through integration work plan and RC mapping which staffs could respond to RCs monitoring and families participation that has the priority activities contributed to achieve goal and child well-being gradually. Through this, program could provide information clearly to RCs parent and also community people on why project close. 6.2.4 Programme integration In order to achieve the program goal, there are three projects which are designed through sponsorship funding from WVUS. There are sponsorship project, maternal and child health and nutrition project, education project which integrates agriculture and economic development and also disaster risk reduction including preparedness and emergency response. In education project already integrated activities to achieve the common goal. For example, in outcome 1 is to empower community people especially poor and poorest families to value quality of education while outcome 3 is to improve family income of the poor and poorest to support children education. So, poor 1 &2 are encouraged to use their income through producing the agriculture products and also saving to support child education. They are also promoted to value more on education for their children and send children to go to school regularly. In output 3.4 is to encourage CCDM/DCDM to mobilize resources for disaster management. Thus, community especially poor 1 & 2 are ready to respond to all kinds of disaster and resilient in the future, because if they produce the agriculture products without considering on disaster, so disaster could destroy their products. Maternal and child health and nutrition in output 1.2 is to strengthen community group and partners to lead and practise on good hygiene and sanitation while output 2.1 of education is to improve school facility through SCs/SSC. It helps each other because community understood on sanitation and hygiene is not only working in village but also working in school as well. Thus school children could aware on hygiene at school through output of maternal and child health and nutrition project. The school compound will be cleaned through this integration. In the overall of MCHN is to improve the health of mothers and children, so the children could have a good foundation of their health. For example, children could protect from 07kinds of diseases through vaccination. They also grow normally through their mother applying health approach to feed the children. Thus, their brain is grown and they will be easy to understand for getting knowledge when they are schooling. It helps children to stay longer in education and contributes to complete the basic education for education project. Moreover, sponsorship project is main project that could build relationship between sponsors and RCs, which encourages sponsors to support fund for project. It could help to education and MCHN project to have enough funding for implementing the project activities. In addition, sponsorship project is not only working for funding, but also working for community development. For instant, community could know the important of sponsorship, how sponsor fund is used, and why project is phasing out. When community especially RCs and their families understood on sponsorship operation, they could allow children to join the sponsorship program. ADP staffs could work in community without conflict because they understand on how to use the fund. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 29 Education project could assist to sponsorship project when project wants to monitor/follow up RCs at school because our partners as teachers could help on this. Through STEP, it could help development project to know where situation of progress through sponsorship data. For example, STEP could share the education that drop school temporary, so project education could use this data to respond and reflection with partner. Some non-sponsorship funded projects are integrated in the ADP. Community mobilization for child protection (MCCP) is integrated to the program to achieve the program goal that states children living in peace. MCCP is strengthening to child protection network (CPN) which participates from local authority, police officers, health centre staffs, school teachers and also parents. Moreover, children and youth are key partners to raise awareness on children protection. They could help to educate their friends both in and out of school to be safe. They also assist in development of activities such as they join in VDP and also join monthly meeting of CC. Thus, they could raise up their need to seek support from local authority. Education project could work with youth club of MCCP to encourage youth club members to stay in school and study heard. In term of improving the income generation in education project, when poor 1 and poor 2 get sick they also could access health service free of charge because MCHN project in output 2.2 is to promote health equity fund committees (HEFC) to mobilize resources to support and monitor health services accessing of Poor 1+2 and PLHIVs families. In addition, Food, Nutrition and Livelihoods (FNL)is integrated to to support food for PLHIV. Thus, children and parents who live with HIV could improve the nutrition and also improve the quality of live because they will support from project to access OI/ARV at health centre location. However this food support phases out in January 2013. The FNL will intensify networking with local authorities to continue support for PLHIV and also promote savings among the groups. ACSCED project is integrated to the program for assisting economic development. Some activities are the same with new propose activities of education project. In the design logframe, ADP discussed with ACSCED project manager and came with an agreement to set activities in education log-frame because ACSCED project coordinator is assigned two ADPs, so that staff concerns the workload. ACSCED just cooperates to work together in village, but not be goal owner. ACSCED is designed for engaging all ACs in WVC to network in national level. ACs are strengthened at national level by capacity building, exposure visit and also share lesson learn. ACSCED also a connector from local level to higher level especially connect to ministry of agriculture to align with guideline and also royal degree of Cambodia. 7 Programme transition Transition Decision with Rationale Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 30 WVC leadership – the Operations Director in consultation with the Operations Manager, affirmed by the Senior Leadership Team members and communicated to the ADP- made the decision to transition Leuk Daek ADP for phase out not only to honour the project life which has been agreed upon with the SO but also because the ADP has shown much progress towards its objectives around food security, health and nutrition and mobilizing communities on child protection as well as around community capacity. Good feedback reports of Leuk Daek ADP have been received from its many visitors and from WVC leaders visiting it and interacting with community members and staff. Finally WVC leadership’s initial decision for the ADP phase out was validated by the findings of the 2011 evaluation. Phasing out the ADP has also given WVC the opportunity to grow new ADPs in other areas in the country with great needs on CWB. Positive impact has been shown in many areas relating to CWB. In terms of economic livelihoods, 47% reported an increase in income compared to 19% reporting a decrease in income. On health, both measles (93.1%) and full immunization coverage (97.7%) was higher than for all of Kandal province. Brestfeeding within one hour of birth was high (89.1%) while exclusive breastfeeding was still low. Incidence of diarrhea dropped down to 15.5%, demonstrating impact from the work of VHSGs and the many training conducted in communities on health and hygiene. While access to potable water is still low, there was clear evidence that environmental sanitation has improved overall with community people building more latrines and cleaning and improving their surroundings. On education, transition rate has increased from 81% in 2004 to 88.4%; completion rate for Grade 6 is now at 87.7% and the enrolment rate for all school-aged children previously at 25% is now at 72%. The reasons for these huge changes were identified as improvements in the school environment, the annual campaign for enrolment carried out by local authorities and World Vision, In terms of community structures and their growing capacities: • Community resources mobilization – youth groups could play role in raising resources and are capable to lead their own group for child protection activities. Child Protection Committee at Commune level is willing to protect children. There was no reported on child sexual abuse in the previous year. According to the survey of MCCP 2007, 63.4 percent of respondents reported that the safety of children in the community was much better and there was increased action to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation during the four years of the project implementation. • They have clear structure with acknowledgement from the authorities with role/responsibility. The Agriculture Cooperative (AC) in each commune was officially formed and registered by the Provincial Department of Agriculture in line with the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fishery. The AC leaders in boards and monitoring committee have ability to manage their group members with less support from ADP staff. In addition, the relevant departments of the government (at district and provincial levels) showed their commitment and willingness to provide support including capacity building through training, coaching and also some materials for agriculture purpose. • Structures of Water Management Committees are functioning strong. The performed well in managing and maintain the water in the canal, the farmers have sufficient water for farming. For instance, 8 cannels had been renovated for their using. Agriculture productivity increased because of good accessibility of water irrigation, the farmers could grow crops from 2 to 3 times per year. They were provided agriculture Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 31 technical skill, and they are understood and applied and as result they got high yield. Based on the result from Program Evaluation, rice yield increased 45.3%. Moreover, they have local market for their products. • Health Centre service improved – The report illustrated that HC staffs and its services were much improved and 83.5% of the population were satisfied or very satisfied with services of health center. The health center staff standby at the health center 24 hours to provide services any time as needed from the community because of at each health center have professional physicians and adequate materials. Beside, the HCMCs of each health center are strong in addressing on any concern related to health services and the behaviour of staff to make better. • SSC – the members of SSCs of all the twelve primaries and lower secondary school are actively to mobilize the community resources to support school sector in term of raising fund to repair the school building. The SSC are the key people that play role in promote education value. 99% of children were enrolled at school. Community sustainability is an ultimate goal of Leuk Daek ADP. In last redesign, program focused more on forming and also establishing community small groups to be legal groups. In this design, program discussed with key community people to increase their accountabilities both human and also financial resource. In the previous time, program got significant progress that lead community group to earn more income through income generation, agriculture products increased. Community also shared both cost and labour to support the project activities, it showed that community has increased ownership to respond with their own development. Community also changed behaviour in tern of taking care for children and also focused more on child education. This is a good seed to lead community for sustainability. 7.1 Management of the Transition process 7.1.1 Community transition process In the design community and key partners were invited to join and share concept for design especially ADP staffs shared message box that let community to know when ADP will be ended program. Key products were raised by community, so they already knew what they will do in this phase with ADP to be sustained. There are 21 products were raised up as minute of community workshop. Moreover, on 07-08 June 2012, ADP staffs conducted transition table with key community again as program learned from other ADPs in ALN for transition. The transition discussed clearly in what kind of activities that ADP and community will share to implement the project. In addition, community and key partners also set up ITT with project and indicate to achieve ITT together. This is the way for empowering them to decide on what they need. In the products there are mostly existing activities, so that ADP will build more capacity to the group who have worked to improve those activities. They will be independent to implement on their plan. Moreover, their plan benefited to them and also community Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 32 group, not benefit for other members. ADP staffs will play role in coaching and leading them on job training and also training through project activities. Moreover, ADP staffs especially TDFs team will prepare detailed plan for transition with community (appendix F). Transition and communication plan are attached in appendix E. 7.1.2 Human Resources Management ADP will follow staffs transition plan base on the Human Resources Management – National Policy Manual NSM 11 to 11.4 of staff recruitment and staffs transfer. ADP manager will discuss with line management and P& C officers to choose the option below referring to staff performance and decision making. Option I: Staffs are eligible for direct transfer to new ADP at the same grade/level and position, if they have good Performance Development Management (PDM) score and Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (KSA). Option II: ADP manager will work with Line Management and P&C officer to discuss on how to redundant staffs and also transfer eligible staffs to a new role. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 33 7.1.3 Asset disposal All assets and equipment belong to ADP office will follow the National policy of asset transfer and disposal. A committee will be formed to discuss and evaluate the quality of asset and submit to the line management for approval. 1. The cost of asset >$0 to <$499. 2. The cost of asset >$500 to <$5,000 3. The cost of asset >$ 5000 After approval from Line Management, ADP has three options for transfer to other partners’ relevant. Option I: Will transfer to other ADP needy Option II: Will transfer to community in target areas. Option III: Will transfer to the government/ local authorities/partners 7.1.4 Documentation process Sponsorship document The retention and/or disposal of sponsorship documents will follow the National Sponsorship policy. The project staffs fully checks the completeness of documents of each RC before transfer to Operations Office for 3 months after closure. They will then be archived or destroyed as required by policy. Program document All document of ADP’s life worked (soft and hard copy) will keep be kept at the Operations level for evaluation and audit when ADP closed. Financial document Refer to the National Manual of Finance Policy, ADP will keep all documents that relevant to financial. It will be transferred and keep at Operation for future reference as per audit requirements. 7.1.5 Preliminary Assessment of risk As shown in the transition rationale: • there are no significant gaps in CWB • much positive impact has been evidenced • a foundation for sound disaster management especially to floods, drought and insect infestation has been laid with capacities of committees for disaster management continuing to be strengthened • Clear orientation was given to authorities and communities on the project phaseout and there was high participation in the re-design process which also involved phase-out plans. • Furthermore, there is no actual or potential significant public transition of intention to transition nor is there an organized opposition to the transition decision. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 34 1. There will be ongoing and more detailed discussions with stakeholders and community partners on specific mechanics of phase-out. We will facilitate very clear transition planning with community. 2. The ADP will have very clear detailed discussions with RCs and their families about the purpose of project phase out and its process. 3. There was clearly stated in the Informed Consent Agreement during their (RCs) first registered into our program that WVC does not promise to provide the direct benefit to the individual RC. Generally, their WVC will use the resources to provide common benefit to our community as a whole. 4. As per the MOU, the current Leuk Daek ADP office will be handed over to the health center. 5. Process of handover of all assets will involve all partners to ensure transparency and accountability. 6. A closing ceremony will be conducted to have acknowledgement from all stakeholders and government authorities. 7. Project closure report will be done 6 months prior to project phase out. 8 Learning and knowledge management strategy 8.1 Baseline Study The baseline data is very important to make direction of the program, what is program trying to achieve. The baseline data can be found from two main sources. Firstly, the ADP tries to use the secondary data as much as possible from any availability and validity sources such as WVC national baseline 2011, JUMSTART evaluation 2012, ADP evaluation report 2011, MoEYS statistic, Cambodia Demographic Health Survey report 2010 (CDHS), MCCP evaluation 2011, Leuk Daek district data, DEO data, OD data and also AO data in order to complete the indicator tracking table of each project. Secondly, ADP staffs will conduct baseline survey if indicators data of projects are still missing. There are two ways for conducting the baseline survey. It can be FGD or HHS. It depends on the program/project indicator type. Project coordinators under support by ADP staffs will be the main responsible person to look for the data, else will participate in required tasks such as data collection team during the HHS or FGD data collection process, particularly ADP manager will participate in management support. Moreover, OMO, DME and relevant STOs will provide technical support–design sampling framework, design questionnaire, train to data collection team, and data analysis to ADP in order to successfully conduct the baseline survey. In the first year of project implementation, ADP and project staffs will conduct baseline survey after the program design is approved by the line management and support office. The data from those sources will be used and put into the project indicator tracking table, and it will be contributed to the program indicator tracking table within the outcome level. It is the starting point for program/project to move forward for implementation. Moreover, the baseline result will be shared to the community member, local authorities, and key stakeholders to understand about their community situation as well as looking for support and partnering with them to achieve the program target. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 35 Data collection process is required, then following the DME budget guidelines to budget accordingly. The approximate budget needed to conduct a baseline data collection process is $1,300, and this cost for running baseline survey will depend on reality of ADP or project baseline requirement. 8.2 Knowledge management and learning Learning process WV is a learning organization by creating a space for staffs and partners to learn from the best practice and also challenges. To follow this model, the program is also created the opportunities for learning amongst the program staffs and the community partners for learning and sharing achievements and challenges including experiences. The opportunity of staffs and community for learning together such as ADP staffs are fairly equipped with monitoring, regular learning, community reflection workshops, ADP learning days through staffs meeting, PC networks, Development tools reflection among TDF team, TDFTL and ADPTLF. By providing these learning events, staffs have multiple intelligences in term of the ability to identify strong and weakness of oneself; discover an appropriate approach to fit with ADP context. Staffs are provided as well the opportunity to exchange experience with one another as the mean of sharing and applying within community to mobilize them on how to use their local resources in order to respond to their issues and needs. For instance, ALN for transition’s ADP could provide the opportunity to ADP staffs to exploring and exchanging best practices and challenges by reflecting to what has set in SMART goal and see the real practice in the field. Through story of change, it could help community to learn and follow to practice at their families for improving the life condition. Community reflection, community exposure visit, and AC meeting, semi and annual reflection, monthly meeting, and network are equipped capacity both staffs and also community key partners. The occasions provided the abilities to grow in their thinking and analyzing skills. Their participation and learning session within the program have added fruitful fertilizer to promote their behavior change and life transform in term of learning and accepting the change in individual and family through MSC/SC. In addition, it promotes to respect to other because we are still learning, no one higher than one, but we can learn together. Staffs and community open heart to share and receive other constructive feedbacks and advices of others. Such leaning process is also contributed to promote democratic for decision making through planning, implementation and monitoring by sharing responsibility that led to achieve their visioning of future sustaining plan. Knowledge management: WVC creates the data base to store the documents through support from IT department. In Lotus Note, it can install data for project and program documents over the life of ADP that called “Projdocs”. Thus semi-annual, annual reports, Programme Design Document (PDD), budget are stored at it. Otherwise, sources of learning, for example, the Action Learning Network (ALN) minutes, ADPTL forum, strategy management and the updates information are stored on the LEAP database and the Cambodian Bulletin Board. Besides of these, WVC will apply Program Monitoring Information System (PMIS) to all ADPs to improve the management of information. Therefore, the ADP equipped capacity Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 36 to use the system and are ready to apply these tools after getting approval from senior leadership team and SO. STEP is also used to generate information from sponsor team and also ADP staffs to see the situation of sponsorship at program area. For instance: APR, WFC. On other hand, software of document we could store in system of computer, but some information will be kept at the community level because it is hard copy. For example, AC meeting minutes, instruction and guide note document, community small proposals and groups’ by law, roles and responsibility, group structure, visioning and mission. All the data and information are accessible all levels. 8.3 Programme evaluation In the next three year for transition phase, Leuk Daek ADP will conduct evaluation in the third year (FY15) in quarter 3 to evaluate the community progress and ownership toward child well being. Program will work closely with DME team to prepare ToR for detail evaluation activities. There are two data are collected both quantitative data and also qualitative data. The evaluation will do HHS to interview beneficiaries to find the quantitative data for evaluating the indicators of project. FGD and KII will be used to select the qualitative data from community group and also key partners. The method of evaluation will be prepared by an external consultant. The consultant will be goal owner to ensure quality of evaluation result. Consult will also use her/his own team for hold the evaluation process through support from ADP manager and also ADP staffs if need. Besides of this, DME team will assist ADP team to do supervise the technical support for conducting the ToR for evaluation. DME will also involve all the process of evaluation with ADP manager and also consultant to ensure evaluation are on the right ways and also reach to expect result. In the ToR processing, community and also key partners will be invited to set purpose of ToR, what progress/result do they expect to see? Then when evaluation resulted, consultant will show the evaluation result to community and keys partners under cooperate with ADP team. Community has a space for discussing with consultant when they suspect/doubt. After that meeting, the final evaluation report will be issued by consultant and sign on if need. Community and also WVC could use the evaluation result to reflect the performance for program implementation. It would be lesson learn for other ADP to reflect on. Community could use the key finding to continue for next implementation after ADP end. The indicators of project will be evaluated and reach to the program result in the level outcome. According the budget guideline of DME for budgeting on external evaluation, there are 27,140 USD will be budgeted in budget template. 9 General implementation strategy Base on the result from community both commune and also district level, there are three projects are identified to implement for next three years. There are sponsorship project, Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 37 maternal and child and nutrition project and also education project which integrated agriculture and HEA. Implementation Strategy of Programme Phase 1 PROGRAMME Phase Financial Year Sponsorship Project 03 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x X x x Education MCCP Phase 3 02 Maternal and Child health and nutrition Food and Water Security Phase 2 x x x x x x X x x x x x x x x x ASCED Baseline Evaluation/ Redesign X x x x x X 10 Management and administration 10.1 National office capacity World Vision Cambodia national office has experienced support technical officers and managers who will provide technical support for each project. The Program Quality & LEAP Department will provide technical support for program team regarding LEAP process for the project/program re/design, monitoring, and evaluation processes. The Learning for Transformation trainer team will provide the Learning for Transformation (LFT) training/refresher training to the project staff and TDFs for the effective work with the community so as to empower them to participate in the development program. The Operations Director and country Director will provide support through line management for the program implementation. Meanwhile, the MCCP project in particular will be strongly supported by the MCCP Project Team, based in the national office. In the next three years, there are three projects created. Sponsorship management project will use STEP at ADP level, so ADP needs support from sponsorship operation to use it on effective ways. Moreover, RCs will be monitored by ADP staffs and also community small group will be identified to monitor RCs with accurate data to use in STEP. Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 38 Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition is integrated WASH to contribute for achieving the project goal. Thus, project coordinator for MCHN will seek support from technical officers from Health and Nutrition and WASH program to implement the activities. Education project is integrated agriculture and economic development and also HEA, thus project staffs will seek support from those technical officers to implement the project activities. 10.2 Programme structure Referred to new focus of WVC, Leuk Daek program designed to align with that. There are three projects are identified to respond with community needed. The structure of program staffs also discussed to manage that project. Leuk Daek ADP also discussed with WVC line management to set up the new structure. The structure is promoted to staffs to work together for achieving the program goal. For example, TDFs are a goal owner to mobilize community and also select community to be partner with project. After that, project get the request from community through facilitation by TDFs, project coordinator will implement the activities as PoA. Then TDFs as working at assigned village, they continue to encourage beneficiaries who benefited from project activities to apply what they have been learnt. The impact is coming from TDFs mobilize community by partner with community members; project coordinator will implement the activities under umbrella management from ADP manager. In term of monitoring in child sponsorship, all positions are required to work together for benefiting to RCs in role of monitor for RCs presence and select them to be beneficiaries. CMS is applied and all positions are assigned to do this. Table: Roles and responsibilities: Position with the Programme Position within their organisation Responsibilities within the Programme ADP manager He/she is reported to Operation Manager ADP manager will lead and manage an ADP team to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of holistic development contributing to sustainable community transformation especially the vulnerable and children’s live. Project Coordinator for Sponsorship He/she is reported to ADP manager Project coordinator will assist the ADP manager in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating on sector project that is contributing to program outcome in a coordinated way and ensures the project promotes quality, empowering and sustainable development, in close collaboration with TDFs and community partners. TDF team Leader He/she is reported to ADP manager TDF team Leader will coach and support TDFs in playing their facilitation role for transformational development through empowering communities, reflecting and learning from one another in order to support the overall goal of ADP team and assist ADP Manager in ensuring the provision of quality services to Transformation Development in target communities through TDFs. Admin and Finance Assistance He/she is reported to ADP manager To provide financial, administrative and clerical support to staff and manager of ADP so they can give primary focus to facilitating community development processes. for MCHN for Education Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 39 Position with the Programme Position within their organisation Responsibilities within the Programme TDF He/she is reported to TDF team leader To facilitate and maintain strong community relationships, participation and empowering processes as World Vision walks alongside children, families and communities in a journey of transformational development. Driver He is reported to Admin and Finance assistance To provide the transportation for staffs and also visitors and also transport any materials to support staffs implementation. 11 References - Mr. Ly Sokha, district council, Five years development plan of Leuk Daek district council 2011-2014. - Mr. Tony Posnett, program evaluation 2011. - Statistic of Leuk Daek program area by ADP staffs 2012. - Ms. Touch Sophea, MCCP project evaluation 2011. 12 Appendices - Appendix A: Program log-frame included ITT, PoA of projects - Appendix B : Budget (Consolidated Programme Budget and Individual Project, Budgets, Project structure and staffing (Organisational Chart) - Appendix C: IPM Self-Review Tool and Action Plan Leuk Daek Area Development Programme Design FY13-FY15 Page 40