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The study explored the work of community social workers (CSWs) and their motivation and the sustainability of community social work programs in Cambodia. The results from the semistructure interview with 21 CSWs revealed that the work of social workers is in itself is a process of self-development and empowerment. On one hand, the targeted clients, women and children, showed improvement in their situation and mental wellbeing. On the other hand, remarkable changes in self-development and self-empowerment was noticeably evident among CSWs. The personal interest, incentive, and social support played a major role in job motivation while constraints to balance work and livelihood strategies, clients’ problems, limited skills and technical supports, absence of collaborative responses from local authorities, and lack of effective referral system are considered to be the main and indirect barriers to motivation of CSWs. Comprehensive intervention is required for future programs to better assist the work of social workers in the community and to ensure sustainability of social work in the rural community in Cambodia. On top of that, community awareness raising, and a well-structured referral system must be established.

Microfinance has known an impression expansion in Cambodia over the past two decades, causing the saturation of the microfinance sector. This is not without consequences for rural households. Besides commercial microfinance institutions, other sources of microcredit exist such as Self-Help Groups facilitated by NGOs such as Louvain Cooperation (LC). These groups allow rural households to make savings and take out credits among themselves and in a way that is more adapted to their needs. These different sources of credit are used alongside with other more traditional sources of credit. Most rural households use more than one source of credit. The use of these different credit sources may cause non-performing loans, leading a number of borrowers become indebted or even over-indebted. That is in this context that this research was completed. It was carried out as part of an internship with the NGO LC in Cambodia. A field research was conducted in the South of the province of Kampong Thom in Cambodia. The objective was to analyze the link between microcredit and the rural household economy.

Migration is an increasingly important economic lifeline and a factor driving social mobility for
families in Cambodia. Over the last fifteen years, internal and international/cross-border migration
has been one of the most significant transformational changes in Cambodian society and the trend is
set to continue. Rural-rural migration accounts for 13 percent, rural-urban 57 percent and cross border
for 31 percent of total migration. Migration poses both opportunities and challenges for migrants and
their families, especially children. Globally the separation of families due to labor migration is a
well-established practice. There is an observable socio-economic gradient in the patterns of family
separation and the practices of maintaining relationships over space and time. Migrants from and
within less developed countries (LDCs) are considered to be at greater risk of poor wellbeing outcomes
(health and psychological) than those with greater economic and social advantage. Migration may have
health impacts for the migrants as well as for their families left behind. The current study focuses on
the families left behind, primarily children and their caregivers.

Despite the large flow of internal and international/cross-border labor migration and its importance
to economic development and poverty alleviation, little is known of the health and social consequences
to migrants and their families in Cambodia. The link between migration and institutionalization
of children of migrant workers is also poorly understood. This study addresses the significant
health and social consequences to left behind children and family members of migrant workers in
Cambodia and how migration lead to institutionalization or fostering of children of migrant workers.
This study adopted a mixed-methods approach, including a quantitative household survey (n=1,459)
and 115 qualitative interviews with family members of the migrant households. Key informant interviews
with local authorities, management, case-workers and children living in residential care institutions
(RCIs) were also conducted to complete eight extended case studies of RCIs. The household survey
covers 56 districts across 13 provinces aiming to understand impacts of migration on Cambodian children
and families left behind. The survey sample design includes two cohorts: the Younger Child Cohort
(aged 0 to 3 years) and the Older Child Cohort (aged 12 to 17 years). Households with no history of parental
migration were also included for comparison.
This study engaged government, non-governmental actors, international organizations including
IOM, Louvain Cooperation, Plan International Cambodia, Family Care First, The University of Hong Kong,
civil society actors, and research organizations (both national and international) across all phases of the
research – from conception to formulation of policy recommendations. Therefore, the relevant policy context
and reports on consultation with local experts about the research were mapped out to inform an intervention
framework reflecting culturally and contextually relevant interventions for the Cambodian setting.

Despite their varying objectives, the programs of Belgian organisations and institutions active in Cambodia all have in common the aim of changing human behaviours that are affecting the environment, health, education, or labour rights. These organisations wanted to learn from one another on different tools and evaluation methods that can be used to analyse the effectiveness of behavioral change programming. This summary presents the study on common behavioral change model.

The complete study and the associated toolbox are also available on Louvain Cooperation website (see document 218).

This video made by Louvain Coopération (LC) in collaboration with Royal University of Agriculture – Ecoland Research Center shows how sustainable agricultural practices improved the quality of life of farmers in the province of Kampong Thom in Cambodia. LC and local partners helped vulnerable farmers to make a transition from conventional to sustainable agricultural practices. The video was made after the transition and people who take part in the project express the changes they observed in term of cultural practices, increasing yield, higher income, better quality of life (health), food security… They also have financial support from local saving groups that help the farmers financially.

This conference report produced in collaboration with the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and Royal University of Agriculture (Cambodia) discusses the way sustainable technical innovations are transferred among small farmers in the South of Kampong Thon, Cambodia. On the one hand, it considers the different factors that intervene in the transmission of the technical innovations and distinguishes those which help and those which delay the transmission. Moreover, it considers the most convenient types of support for the transmission. On the other hand, it argues how a social organization of farmers helps the transfer.

Ce mémoire de Master en Sciences de la population et du développement, à finalité spécialisée en développement de 2018 analyse les principaux déterminants de la transmission des innovations agroécologiques parmi les petits agriculteurs du sud de la province de Kampong Thom au Cambodge. Ainsi, la cohésion sociale entre les membres de groupes de producteurs (qui peut être promue par différentes approches) permet de favoriser les innovations sociales, institutionnelles, communicationnelles, mais aussi agrotechniques, qui ont tendance à se renforcer l’une l’autre dans une logique processuelle.

This article produced in collaboration with the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and Royal University of Agriculture (Cambodia) deals with the advantages of sustainable farming practices. It presents the way a non-governmental organization (MODE) spreads organic agricultural good practices to local vulnerable farmers in the central province of Kampong Thom, Cambodia. It finds significant differences between traditional agricultural practices and organic good practices. The latter leads to sustainability, increases income, food production diversity and number of risk mitigation planned or already taken action. Nevertheless, the article mentions that the global level of sustainability remains low given the local farmers’ lack of knowledge and the prominence of traditional agricultural practices.

This paper was produced in collaboration with the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and Royal University of Agriculture (Cambodia) and presented in 2017 at the 19th Organic World Congress in New Delhi (India). It presents the results of a survey to assess the benefits of spreading organic agricultural good practices to local vulnerable farmers, encouraging them to develop environmentally friendly crop production systems and to diversify their income.

This technical video shows how to modify the home page of the website of a Cambodian partner. It has two sections: first the slideshow and then the content. The slideshow consists of images sliding one by one. You can see images that emerge on the website. If you want to add a new one, it can be nice to explain what the image refers to. The content is not a simple article, it is located on the homepage.

This technical video explains how to use the photo gallery on the website of a Cambodian partner. If you want to remove a gallery, you can use different points. You can create a new photo gallery and once it’s done, just select it and apply. To do this, you must find the images on your computer/desktop. The objective is to know more about adding these images to a photo gallery within the different folders.

This technical video explains how to add a new article in the website of a Cambodian partner. Here we will see how it appears on the website. To do this, there are different menus. It is based on the administrator’s window. Behind the home page of the website, Chris defines the two things that must be done: first, to add what is named “an article”. After, the objective is to know more about the menus. These menus are linked to the articles.

This technical booklet for a Cambodian partner is particularly interesting for people who want to include useful data in their reports. In section 9, you should understand what happens when data is added in the database, especially for follow-ups and self-help groups. In what follows, it depends on what you wish. If you understand section 3.7 of the first report, you will be able to search data in the database without making mistakes.

This technical booklet focuses on how to add data unfailingly in the database of a Cambodian partner. A database will sustain the information. The mechanism cannot work entirely on its own: it needs a user to know what to perform.

The first aspect will explain at length what a form is. Depending on the nature of the information, it can be interesting to learn where the data is stored.

A local database is very easy to append new information in the database. This device was created to make it faster for you to complete the follow-up forms, but please be careful: do not forget to update the data that may have changed since the previous aftercare.

This resource guide contains information for organizations, government, associations and other development actors that want to support low-income households in setting up small-scale enterprises in Cambodian rural areas. It contains a collection of resources and examples of successful cases of small entrepreneurs. It aims to help organizations or institutions to learn more about development of cost-effective support of microenterprises for the poor.