2004
Mid-year Report
Cambodia Country Programme
Identification
of national partners
A small core group of three people from CEDAC, Royal University
of Agriculture and PDAFF was set up to manage the project activities
of PROLINNOVA in Cambodia.
Communication
and information
Information
brochures on PROLINNOVA have been prepared in Khmer (local language)
and in English. The information brochures are widely distributed
to NGO partners and other stakeholders.
Inventory
of local innovation
A
total of 110 innovations/good practices are already compiled through
an inventory of farmer innovation carried out by reviewing existing
publications.
National
review
Bilateral
and multi-lateral meetings on PROLINNOVA were organised with representatives
from NGOs, educational institutions, government departments and
research institutions. As a result, representatives from 12 institutions
are already invited for a meeting to plan the national workshop
scheduled for December 2004.
Introduction
workshop
CEDAC
organised a one-day introduction workshop on “Local Innovation”
on 29th May 2004 in Phnom Penh, with the participation of 93 people
(37 women). Forty of them were farmers and members from 16 agencies
were involved. During the workshop, 18 farmers presented 18 local
innovations. At the end of the workshop, all participants gave scores
to the innovations presented. There were small prizes for those
innovators who received the highest scores.
Platform
workshops
Support
was given to ILFARM-Tramkok (Improving Livelihood of Small Farmers
in Tramkok, a project of CEDAC) to organise two workshops on PROLINNOVA
with the participation of 144 (17 female) farmers and representatives
of local authorities. The objective of the workshop was to get people
to pay more attention to local innovation processes and to take
action to further develop local innovations.
PID
training of facilitators
Two
persons, one from the secretariat office (CEDAC) and another from
the Royal University of Agriculture, participated in a two-week
training of facilitators in Participatory Innovation Development
held at IIRR in the Philippines.
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