DEVELOPMENT SERVICE

LWD provides development service for the rural poor through the implementation of the Integrated Rural Development through Empowerment Programs from 2009-2014 and Empowerment Towards Self-reliance Programs (ESRPs) from 2015-2020 aiming to empower the rural community to claim their rights, manage the community development work by themselves and individually improve their living standards.

Program Components

LWD works through partnerships and empowerment in the areas of:

  • Community governance, leadership and development
  • Human rights and advocacy
  • Food security and nutrition
  • Income generation
  • Education
  • Basic health care
  • Water and sanitation
  • Women and youth empowerment
  • Climate change adaptation, disaster risk management and    emergency response
  • Humanitarian mine action

Specific Projects

  • Community Empowerment through Access to Land Project, funded by JSDF/World Bank (2008-2013)
  • Securing Rights to Land and Sustainable Livelihoods Project, funded by EU through DCA (2011-2013)
  • Promoting Child Rights to Health and Education, funded by Sida/Church of Sweden (2011-2013)
  • Woman: Hope and Growth, funded by Finn Church Aid (2011-2014)
  • Cooperation for Women’s Economic Development, funded by Finn Church Aid (2015-2017)
  • Post Social Land Concession Livelihood Development Project, funded by ELCA (May 2015 – April 2018)
  • Cooperation for Women’s Economic Development, funded by Women’s Bank/FCA (2015-2017)

Target Areas

LWD works with vulnerable people in remote areas through holistic capacity building to sustainable livelihoods. Based on the participatory rural assessment, five target areas in five provinces with a total population of over two and a half million people were included in LWD’s Country Strategy 2015-2020. There is a representative Area Program Office (APO) at the district level in each province, and it is managed by the field office management and staff. These APOs are located in the following provinces:

  1. Battambang – APO-BAT (Covers Bavel, Kamrieng and Phnom Pruek districts)
  2. Pursat – APO-PUR (Phnom Kravanh district)
  3. Kampong Chhnang – APO-KCH (Sameakki Meanchey and TuekPhos districts)
  4. Kampong Speu – APO-KSP (Thpong, Aoral and Phnom Sruoch districts)
  5. Svay Rieng – APO-SVR (Svay Chrum and Romeas Hek districts)

Target Groups

Our target groups include poor farmers, landless and land-poor families, female-headed households, people living with or affected by HIV, illiterate adults, disadvantaged rural children, youth/women, and commune councils.