សេវាកម្មអភិវឌ្ឍន៍

LWD provides development service for the rural poor through the implementation of the Integrated Rural Development through Empowerment Programs (IRDEPs) 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
  • Access to education and non-formal education for adults
  • Preventive health (primary care, HIV and AIDS)
  • Water and sanitation
  • Gender/youth
  • Community-based natural resources management
  • Climate change adaptation, disaster risk management and emergency response
  • Humanitarian mine action

Specific Projects

  • Community Empowerment through Access to Land Project (JSDF/World Bank-funded Social Land Concession Project)
  • Securing Rights to Land and Sustainable Livelihoods Project (EU-funded SLCP)
  • Promoting Child Rights to Health and Education (Funded by Sida/Church of Sweden)
  • Woman: Hope and Growth (Funded by Finn Church Aid)

Target Areas

LWD works with vulnerable people in remote areas through holistic capacity building to sustainable livelihoods. Based on the participatory rural assessment, six target areas in four provinces with a total population of over two and a half million people were included in LWD’s Country Strategy. The IRDEP is multiplied by the number of the target areas, each of which has a representative area program office at the district level, and managed and implemented by the area management and staff at each office. The identification of each IRDEP includes the followings:

  • IRDEP-BB (Bavel, Kamrieng& Phnom Pruek districts of Battambang)
  • IRDEP-PK (Phnom Kravanh district of Pursat province)
  • IRDEP-KC (SameakkiMeanchey&TuekPhos districts of Kampong Chhnang province)
  • IRDEP-TH (Thpong district of Kampong Speu province)
  • IRDEP-AR (Aoral district of Kampong Speu province)
  • IRDEP-PS (Phnom Sruoch district of Kampong Speu province)

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.