The project was designed based on primary need identification from communities and relevant stakeholders who are affected from climate change issues. The overall objective is to reduce vulnerability of climate change and improve livelihoods of rural poor depending on agriculture in Kampong Speu province through using the approach of integrated farmer field school on sustainable agriculture and climate change adaptation (IFFS on SA and CCA) by providing capacity building to target groups and local authorities on climate change adaptation.

The project duration is 18 months and will be implemented in 3 FWUCs in Kampong Speu province. There are 200 direct beneficiaries and about 1,000 Households will be involved and benefit from the project and Srer Khmer will implement the project in cooperation with partner such as PDA, PDWRAM and local authorities

Objective
To reduce vulnerability of climate change and promote climate change awareness to improve livelihoods of the rural poor dependent on agriculture in Kampong Speu province

i) Outcome 1: The selected participants? livelihood (incomes by 20 to 30% increased on the baseline survey) is improved through attending Integrated Farmer Field School (IFFS) on sustainable agriculture and climate change.

ii) Outcome 2: The local knowledge and capacity of community based organizations on livelihood and climate change adaptation to address and dialogue with commune council is improved.

iii) Outcome 3: Monitoring and evaluation of the project is documented to compare the results along the project life

Outputs and Activities
Output 1.1: One Training of Trainers (TOT) on sustainable agriculture (SA) and climate change adaptation (CCA) is conducted to enable farmer promoters (FP) to facilitate farmer field school (FFS) at their respective villages

Activities
i) Select ten (10) best practiced farmers to attend TOT especially the one who has experiences in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) farmer field school
ii) Design training curriculum on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change Adaptation (SA and CCA)
iii) Conduct Training of Trainers (TOT)

Output 1.2: Ten (10) IFFS on SA and CCA to 200 farmers are conducted to improve farmers? knowledge and skills on sustainable agriculture to improve their farming as part of CCA

Activities
i) Select target farmers within the Farmer Water User Groups (FWUGs) to attend FFS
ii) Design and prepare 16 weeks IFFS (Integrated Farmer Field School) curriculum and field guides, diary book
iii) Open FFS facilitated by Farmer Promoters (FP) and Project staff

Output 1.3: Two (2) topics of post-IFFS, SA and CCA per FFS, are conducted to improve their livelihood through application of different approaches to cope with CCA

Activities
i) Identify the needy training after FFS is finished
ii) Conduct training to each group two times per project life

Output 1.4: Individual action plan for livelihood adaptation to Climate Change is developed with assistance from project staff to improve their livelihood to cope with CCA

Activities
i) Develop individual action plan during the end of FFS with the assistance from the project staff
ii) Form saving groups and develop saving policy for funding support from the project
iii) Support individual funding needs based on the plan developed by farmers as a demonstration in the communities

Output 1.5: One exchange visit with some 30 participants outside province is organized to learn from best practices elsewhere and then farmers are able to improve their knowledge learnt

Activities
i) Identify the best practiced areas for target farmers to visit
ii) Develop concept note of exchange visit and selecting farmers
iii) Organize one exchange visit to outside province

Output 1.6: One farmer forum on livelihood and CCA with some 50 participants is organized to share experiences and reflect on what they have learnt and practice in terms of sustainable agriculture and climate change adaptation

Activities
i) Select farmers, key farmers, local authorities and counterparts to attend the farmer forum in order to share experiences
ii) Organize 3 farmer forums with 150 participants

Output 2.1: Meeting with CBO executive on SA and CCA is facilitated by the project staff to enable CBOs executives to be aware of the Climate Change and the strategy to cope with.

Activities
i) Organize a debriefing meeting with CBO executives on the project documents
ii) Invite all concerned CBO executive members to attend meetings with project staff
iii) Develop a work plan with the CBO executive members on how to organize regular meetings to share the experiences of the project especially on the progresses and challenges

Output 2.2: Training on CCA to commune council members is conducted to promote awareness to Commune Council members together with village chief in order for them to take more consideration to put in its CDP/CIP.

Activities
i) Select Commune Council members to attend the training on CCA
ii) Prepare a training concept note
iii) Develop training lessons and training guides
iv) Facilitate training with Commune Council members

Output 2.3: One reflection workshop on CCA with commune council and farmers is organized to improve the understanding of the importance of CCA

Activities
i) Organize a reflection workshop in year 1 and year 2 of the project (two workshops in total)

Output 3.1: VRA is conducted before the project started to understand the current situation in the villages

Activities

i) Select concerned farmers, local authorities, children, and counterpart to attend the VRA exercise
ii) Facilitate the VRA exercise in the target villages
iii) Organize a feedback meeting with concerned participants at the village level
iv) Finalize the VRA report as a benchmark for the project

Output 3.2: VRA is conducted at mid-term to compare with the first VRA exercise in order to see the progresses and challenges of the project

Activities
i) Select concerned farmers, local authorities, children, and counterpart to attend the VRA exercise at the mid-term
ii) Facilitate the VRA exercise in the target villages
iii) Organize a feedback meeting with concerned participants at the village level
iv) Finalize the VRA report by comparing with findings of VRA conducted before the project started

Output 3.3: VRA is conducted at end term to compare with the first VRA exercise in order to see the progresses and challenges of the project

Activities
i) Select concerned farmers, local authorities, children, and counterpart to attend the VRA exercise at the end project life
ii) Facilitate the VRA exercise in the target villages
iii) Organize a feedback meeting with concerned participants at the village level
iv) Finalize the VRA report by comparing with findings from VRA conducted before the project started

Output 3.4: Project external evaluation is conducted at end of the project cycle to measure the impact and identify strategies for future projects

Activities
i) Select a consultant based on the developed TOR
ii) Select concerned farmers and local authorities to attend the project evaluation
iii) Feedback meeting with concerned participants at the village level
iv) Finalize the evaluation report