Lower Mekong Food Security Database

Project Information

The strategic goals of the project were to reduce the poverty of targeted households in the project area. It aimed to increase food production and farm income for 39 150 poor households from intensified and diversified crop and livestock production; and increase the capacity of the poor to use the services available from Government and other sources for their social and economic development.

The expected project outcomes consisted of the following:

• Participation of communities in meeting their own needs using participatory and gender-sensitive approaches, with government agencies and other service providers able to respond to farmers needs as expressed during the participatory planning process;
  
• Increased awareness throughout the project area of ways to improve crop and livestock production, and subsequent adoption of improved methods and technology for increased farm production;
  
• Increased access of rural communities to water for supplementary irrigation in the wet season and services of safe drinking water and road communication; and
  
• Establishment of a functioning system of decentralised development, planning, financing and implementation so that project services are delivered to the target group in a sustainable and participatory manner.
  

Complementary Information

Participatory and gender-sensitive approaches were used in the project to promote a balance in gender participation of the project. For example, both women and men could benefited equally from improved road access, water supply and access to financial services.

Project Locations

Kampong Thom, Kampot