Promoting community resilience through increasing adaptive capacity to climate change in Battambang Province, Cambodia
| Country | Cambodia |
| Period of Contract | 2015-02-26 To 2015-06-26 |
| Name of Client | Help Age Cambodia |
| Address of Client | #309, Group 27, Chrey Kaong village, Slakaet district, Battambong province. |
| Donors | N/A |
| Contract Value | 9500 USD |
| Name of associated organizations | N/A |
Description
Promoting community resilience through increasing adaptive capacity to climate change in Battambang Province, Cambodia project aims to demonstrate climate change management in five villages and to build awareness of Disaster Risk Reduction management and practices in 35 communities, in Aek Phnom District, Battambang Province. This action concerns the capacity building of Older People Association (OPA) in rural villages vulnerable to the effects of climate change for the purpose of demonstrating community resilience. This action focuses on resilient-building strategies at the sub-national and community level, including livelihoods, water resources management, awareness and preparedness. This action expects to have five outcomes:
- Capacity of Older People Association to coordinate Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and climate change management at the community level;
- Livelihoods of target communities are improved through better understanding and utilization of adaptive and resilient agricultural practices;
- Health is improved in the target communities through increased knowledge and inputs for climate change management of community water resources;
- Adaptive capacity in the 35 villages is increased through greater climate change knowledge and strengthened collaboration between community, local authorities, and government service providers at the sub-national level;
- CCCA visibility is established, and project implementation progress and evaluation findings are known among climate change key stakeholders in Battambang.
The firm provided final evaluation consultancy service, design project final evaluation method, conducted field data collection, data analysis reporting, and presentation of the finding
Specific method and approaches:
- The survey is conduct for 350 farmers in 35 communities in one District of Battambang Province.
- Conduct consultation meeting to older people association in Battambang.
Conduct dissemination workshop on result of evaluation
