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Strategic Plan 2011- 2015

NAS Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Table of Contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations.......................................................................................................................3

Country Context..........................................................................................................................................4

NAS Background..........................................................................................................................................5

Core values..................................................................................................................................................6

Vision:..........................................................................................................................................................6

Missions:......................................................................................................................................................6

Goal:............................................................................................................................................................7

Strategies.....................................................................................................................................................7

Objective and Activity Domains...................................................................................................................8

Results-Framework....................................................................................................................................13

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Acronyms and Abbreviations

CCWC The Commune Committee for Women and Children

CDP/CIP Commune Development Plan/Commune Investment Plan

CDRI Cambodia Development Research Institution

CMDG Cambodia for the Millennium Development Goals

EFAC Education For All Committee

HCMC Health Center Management Committee

HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

M&E Monitoring and Evaluation

MoP Ministry of Planning

NGO Non-Government Organization

NAS Nak Akpivath Sahakum

OVC Orphan and Vulnerable Children

RGC The Royal Government of Cambodia

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Country Context

Food and nutrition availability and access in Cambodia is predominantly driven by weather-dependent rice production, animal and fish raising. Although Cambodia has produced a national surplus of rice since 1995-1996, access to rice at the household level has fluctuated because of unstable rainfall patterns and a lack of productive means or purchasing power. This situation has a negative impact on livelihoods, and has led to the adoption of negative coping strategies to meet food requirements. These strategies include increased seasonal migration, child labour, withdrawal of students from school (especially girls), changed food patterns to less expensive and often less nutritious food and reduced intake of food, especially for women and older girls, perpetuating a cycle of health issues, debt, deforestation and sale of livestock and land.

Inadequate economic opportunities in rural areas, limited access to land for small farmers, mine/unexploded ordinance contamination, low agricultural productivity, and poor infrastructure, limited access to productive employment opportunities and decent work and increased food prices over the last several years.

According to the 2008 Cambodia Development Research Institute (CDRI) indicated that about 12 % of households, or 1.7 million individuals were food insecure and most of these households were affected by increases in food prices. About 50 percent of such households reported cutting back on food as their coping mechanism while school drop-out rates increased from 13 percent in January 2008 to 22 percent in June 2008. The study also indicated that the number of food insecure could increase to up to 20 percent of the population, or 2.8 million, in the 2008 lean season.

According to CMDG progress report in 2010, MoP, RGC, Poverty line in Kampong Cham province is very high approximately 24.3% in 2010 compared to Cambodia 25.8%. One of the major constraints for rural productivity and poverty is the low level of skills in the workforce; about 75 percent of rural workers have a primary education or less and no skills training other than family tradition in agriculture.

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High levels of illiteracy, especially among older women in rural areas, are a barrier to expanding skills training. Self-employment is a more viable option than employment for newly trained unpaid family workers in both rural and urban areas. However, most institution based training has little curriculum dedicated to self-employment or micro enterprise management. Linked with education and vocational training, is the need to further expand agricultural extension services for improved farming and market integration. The extension and technology transfer strategy needs to focus, in particular, on the vital role women play in the food chain.

NAS Background NAS is a non profit, non governmental and non political organization, established on 1st May 1997 recognition of Provincial Governor, Kampong Cham province, on 30th June 1997 and registered within the Ministry of Interior, Royal Kingdom of Cambodia in September 1999. Within its mission, NAS was to work the changes of the better living quality of the poorest of the poor, women headed families, vulnerable people living with hopeless, people living with HIV/AIDS and chronic diseases, orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and their families in Kampong Cham province through the integrated program and to ensure the safety health, food security, gender equity, small infrastructure rehabilitation.

NAS provided the community capacity development related to the program activities in order them to manage and lead the community-based program quality and their management needed to be accountable to and transparent to their communities and stakeholders. NAS programs were built the people ownership, empowerment, and motivated the participation in decision making and to remove the power structure that was the barrier to the social and economic development, social justice and democracy practices. Through institutional assessment report shown the following strengths, achievements and weakness;

Strengths Achievements made Weaknesses• NAS has an

organizational • NAS has built human

resources in 20 • Organization faces

the difficulty in the

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structure which is written the clear roles and responsibilities

• NAS recognized relevant stakeholders, government and development partners as community based NGO working on HIV, Health, Livelihood, environment, good governance and social accountability.

• NAS has good qualified staff and most of them are graduates.

• Governance board are active and played roles in ensuring governance and transparency in organization

• NAS has management and staff equipped with experiences and skills on management, livelihood, governance and M&E

villages, 10 communes, 4 districts in Kampong Cham province

• There were 18 communities officially recognized and there were 7 issued the honorable certificates by Provincial Agriculture Department and other 11 communities were recognized by Communes Council

• The rice banks were established with benefited to 1,426 families included 754 families were women headed households.

• There were 3,840 women had their own decision related health services as birth spacing and to public hospital for safe abortion services instead of private clinic

• NAS built a concrete post at community and worked with community people in some districts of Kg Cham.

fund raising, the capacity for proposal development is need to be improved

• lack of communication, and lack of understanding of the donor policies

• Strategy for community empowerment on livelihood, gender, good governance, climate change need room for improvement

• NAS legal and operational frameworks need time and effort to develop and install.

• Professional staff on livelihood and monitoring and evaluation need to be employed and worked at national, sub national and community levels

• International volunteer staff needs to be recruited for NAS placement

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Core values

Core Values: NAS believes that builds good communication at works professionally and in ways of daily living better because people act within the following behavioral values below:

Gender equality Development with equity Dignity and non discrimination Mutual Respects and trust each to other Transparency and accountability Professionalism

Vision:Poor and vulnerable people live with well being standard and welfare

Missions:In achieving the vision above, NAS has the following mission approaches

Empowering poor and vulnerable people especially women and children

Initiating program and projects on climate change and climate change adaptation for protecting poor and vulnerable people especially women and children

Efficient and sustainable livelihood option innovated by poor and vulnerable people especially women and children.

Goal: Improving quality of living condition of poor and vulnerable people especially women and children through effective and sustainable livelihood options, climate change awareness raising and adaption and human rights based approach to programming.

Strategies

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Strategy1: Ensuring poor and vulnerable people especially women and children have a good health and specialized in livelihood.

Objective1.1 Enhancing to marketing review and livelihood planning for poor and vulnerable people especially women and children

Objective1.2. Promoting on existing farmer network to share experiences, skills and find target marketing.

Objective1.3. Strengthening farmer network to analysis on saving management.

Objective1.4. Improving capacity for poor and vulnerable people especially women and children on routine assessment of the quality of their products.

Objective1.5. Improving knowledge on human rights, gender and leadership of poor and vulnerable people.

Objective1.6. Strengthening the community health and social systems to better access of poor and vulnerable population to legal, social and health services.

Strategy2: Ensure that NAS has ability to provide services and respond to demand of poor and vulnerable people especially women and children efficiently and sustainably.

Objective2.1 Improving the implementation of NAS institutional policies and guidelines.

Objective2.2. Strengthening the capacity of NAS staff through establishing and implementing long, medium and short term on general capacity development plan.

Objective2.3. Enhancing cash inflow and outflow in accuracy and transparency

Objective2.4. Strengthening the monitoring, and evaluation system and research

Objective2.5. Creating long term strategic partnership with commune councils and specialized institution to support poor and vulnerable people.

Objective2.6. Creating and strengthen development center.5


Strategy3: Ensuring meaningful involvement of community, authority and stakeholders to protect and support poor and vulnerable people especially women and children.

Objective3.1. Enhancing local existing mechanisms such as CCWC, Community Safety Committee and other legal entities for protecting poor and vulnerable children

Objective3.2. Improving good governance and accountability in all local sectors for protecting the poor and vulnerable population especially women and children

Objective3.3. Building the capacity of people within the existing systems and networks to implement their roles and responsibilities.

Objective3.4. Encouraging community people in using of existing democratic process such as social accountability box, information board, commune development plan, procurement process etc. Objective3.5 Establishing the Implementation of policies and guidelines in an effective way.

Strategy4: Ensuring community people included poor and vulnerable population aware and adapt to climate change

Objective4.1. Improving acknowledge on better environment and acceptable sanitation and hygiene

Objective4.2. Mobilizing community to analyze and adapt to climate change Objective4.3. Establishing and implementing the local climate change resolution mechanisms

Objective and Activity Domains

Objectives Activity DomainsStrategy1: Ensuring poor and vulnerable people especially women and children have a good health and specialized in livelihood.

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Objective1.1 Enhancing to marketing review and livelihood planning for poor and vulnerable people especially women and children

Share with farmers on feasibility study/market survey

Conduct participatory review about existing local markets and national markets relevance to their products

Share with farmers association on business development plan

Facilitate to develop small business work plan

Provide revolving fund to families for initiative business.

Conduct site visit to in and out of provinces.

Objective1.2. Promoting on existing farmer network to share experiences, skills and find target marketing.

Develop annual sharing experience plan

Organize quarterly meeting to share their experiences, lesson learnt and best practices

Organize annual sharing experience events

Organize annual community market place

Organize exchange visit to visit place where we can learn from the success an failure stories

Objective1.3. Strengthening farmer network to analysis on saving management.

Create a group of saving fund Establish the saving fund policy Provide training course for

community people to prepare financial planning and management

Introduce about disadvantage of cash inflow and cash outflow

Objective1.4. Improving capacity for poor and vulnerable people especially women and children on routine assessment of the quality of their products.

Develop quality assessment tool to farmers association

Provide on-job training on how to use the quality assessment tool

Organize quarterly quality assessment

Sharing and learning from each others about quality

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assessment best practices

Objective1.5. Improving knowledge on human rights, gender and leadership of poor and vulnerable people.

Provide training course on human rights, gender and leadership to farmers association

Mainstream gender and human rights into exiting activities

Organize joint events on international women rights day and human rights day

Develop and implement activities plan for gender and human rights awareness raising

Objective1.6. Strengthening the community health and social systems to better access of poor and vulnerable population to legal, social and health services.

Introduce exiting community systems to farmers associations ( HCMC, CCWC, Community Safety Policy)

Develop and implement community service directory and communication directory

Develop and contribute community emergency fund for referral systems

Organize community forums on roles and responsibilities of rights holders and duty bearers

Strategy2: Ensure that NAS has ability to provide services and respond to demand of poor and vulnerable people especially women and children efficiently and sustainably.

Objective2.1. Improving the implementation of NAS institutional policies and guidelines.

Conduct participatory NAS self-policy Assessment & Audit

Develop policies, guidelines, and tools based on result of self policy assessment & audit

Develop mechanisms to routinely implementation of NAS policy

Objective2.2. Strengthening the capacity of NAS staff through establishing and implementing long, medium and short term on

Develop long, medium and short term capacity development plan

Provide training base on the

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general capacity development plan.

capacity development plan Develop internal saving scheme

for NAS staff capacity development

Organize NAS annual retreat Organize NAS learning

exchange between NGOs and NGOs

Objective2.3. Enhancing cash inflow and outflow in accuracy and transparency

Update Financial Policy and Procurement procedures

Install or Update NAS Financial system

Conduct external & internal Financial Audit

Create common file to share all financial reports

Create NAS friendly website to share worldwide

Objective2.4. Strengthening the monitoring, and evaluation system and research

Conduct M&E Rapid Assessment of NAS by using PRIM Tool or 12 components tool

Develop M&E Tools such as conceptual framework, result framework, resource framework and monitoring checklist

Develop NAS data base system Provide on job training to NAS

M&E person and management on monitoring tools, data collection, data processing, data verification, data analyzing and data use

Objective2.5. Creating long term strategic partnership with commune councils and specialized institution to support poor and vulnerable people.

Draft Term of reference for institutionalized partnership between NAS and CCWC/CC

Develop work plan for integrating of NAS main activities into with CDP/CIP

Provide technical support to CCWC on the social issues program implementation of activities

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Provide on job training to CC/CCWC on proposal writing and planning preparation

Support CCWC/CC to mobilize community resources

Objective2.6. Creating and strengthening development center.

Conduce assessment to explore the possibility for NAS development centre

Conduct fund raising to procure development zone

Develop development centre plan for long term investment

Start to do agriculture and biogas for sharing with farmers association

In partnership with CCWC and Farmers association to organize community market place

Strategy3: Ensuring meaningful involvement of community, authority and stakeholders to protect and support poor and vulnerable people especially women and children.

Objective 3.1. Enhancing local existing mechanisms such as CCWC, Community Safety Committee and other legal entities for protecting poor and vulnerable children

Introduce good governance and social accountability and development concepts to CCWC and farmers association

Develop Term of reference for CCWC, Community Safety Committee, Education for All Committee and others

Create Community Platform where all members of community network can meet and share their insights and experiences

Introduce the importances of local democratic process and on how to use accountability box, information board, CDP/CIP, Procurement process…

Objective 3.2. Improving good governance and accountability in all local sectors for protecting the poor and vulnerable population

Create community watchdogs in local service delivery and local decision-making.

Support CC/CCWC to organize

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especially women and children

community forums on clients and providers ‘rights

Introduce to CCWC and others members on status of community participation in education, health, agriculture and civil registration

Support the commune councils on the formulation and implementation of the prioritized social development project

Objective 3.3. Building the capacity of people within the existing systems and networks to implement their roles and responsibilities.

Conduct assessment of capacity of community network

Provide on job training to CCWC, EFA, HCMC and others on good governance and social accountability

Promoting the roles and responsibilities of rights holders and providers’ rights in community

Encourage the community people to participate in Commune Development Plan and Commune Investment Plan and other local democratic process

Objective 3.4. Encouraging community people in using of existing democratic process such as social accountability box, information board, commune development plan, procurement process etc.

Train people on article writing Train farmers association on

social accountability box, information board, commune development plan, procurement process etc.

Encourage farmers and community people to file complaints through community forums, accountability box, information board and CDP/CIP processes

Objective 3.5. Establishing the Implementation of policies and

Conduct policy gaps analysis Working in partnership to

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guidelines in an effective way.

monitor the implementation and enforcement of policy and guideline

Broadcast the policy and guideline to community people in order to implement in efficiency and effectiveness

Initiate necessary policy or principles for protecting and supporting poor and vulnerable people

Strategy4: Ensuring community people included poor and vulnerable population aware and adapt to climate change

Objective4.1. Improving acknowledge on better environment and acceptable sanitation and hygiene

Develop community scorecard on the status of sanitation and hygiene

Organize annual campaign on hygiene and sanitation

Encourage people to build and use bio-digesters

Organize environmental day at village and commune

Organize good village exhibition and competition

Objective 4.2. Mobilizing community to analyze and adapt to climate change

Analyze and share with farmers association the status of climate changes

Disseminate and train the community about climate change and the importance of natural resources

Develop simple and practical work plan for farmers association to climate change adaptation

Support adapted climate change project initiated by community people and farmers association

Objective 4.3. Establishing and implementing the local climate change resolution mechanisms

Have partnership with provincial environment to identify the climate change issues

Develop the climate change

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resolution mechanisms

Results-Framework

Ref Results

Measurement

Unit Frequency Methods Responsi

ble

1 Increased percentage of income and saving among supported families

Population

in every three years

Both quantitative and qualitative approach

Independent Consultant

2 Increased percentage of school attendance among targeted households with orphans and vulnerable children

Population




3 Increased percentage of professional skills on livelihood and marketing among NAS staff and targeted households

Population




4 Reduced percentage of mortality and morbidity among targeted households

Population




5 Increased coverage of households in NAS Programs/Project

Semester basis

Passive surveillance/Routine Monitoring System of

NAS staff

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NAS

6 Increased understanding of targeted households on rights holders and livelihood options

Population




7 Increased risk perceptions among targeted households

Population




8 Increased percentage of villages, communes and district covered by NAS Programs/projects

Semester basis

Passive surveillance/Routine Monitoring System of NAS

NAS staff

9 Increased participation of targeted households in all processes of local democracy and human rights such as CCWC, Community Safety Committee, Education for All Committee, Accountability Box, Information Board, Health Centre Management Committee etc.

Population




10 Increased levels of implementation and enforcement of relevant laws,

Population


Both quantitative and qualitative


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policies and guidelines

approach

11 Propose principles, guideline and policy by NAS and Its alliances adopted and enforced to implementation

Semester basis


NAS staff

12 Strengthened and effective NAS institutional development and management

Population




13 Increased resources included financial resources for meeting the needs of targeted households

Semester basis


NAS staff

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