Chong Ampil commune is one of target area where communities have been facing adverse impacts of climate change in addition to impacts from other human actions including drought, flood and application of chemicals such as pesticides to eliminate pests on rice and vegetables, burning of underground biodiversity, and failure by farmers in appropriate use of chemicals as advised by provincial department of agriculture.
This produces adverse effects on soil quality as soil become less productive and rice and other crops produce lower yield. In addition farmers need to spend more while the yield becomes lower. This contributes an underlying cause of food insecurity in Chaong Ampil commune. The CIP does not offer high priority on actions to adapt to climate change.
The issue with CIP/CDP development and P&B committee: So far information generation in consultation stage was done with less than 50% of local people in each of the seven villages. Awareness by commune councillors and members of P&B committee on adaptation to climate change is also low. The two factors represent a restraint to process of CDP/CIP from responding to climate change and current needs by local people being affected by climate change as information collected from village level represents opinions of those less than 50% only. To respond to the above issues the project will implement actions as follows:
Overall objective: CIP 2015 has mainstreamed climate change adaptation actions and relevant agencies supported the actions to respond to impacts from drought.
Outcome 1: By the end of 2014 Chong Ampil commune council has capacity to develop CIP with actions to adapt to climate change are mainstreamed.

Output 1.1: Commune councillors and P&B committee (totally 25, of them 10 are women) have capacity to apply VRA tools to consult with local people in identifying issues, needs and interventions for incorporation in the CIP development.
Activity 1.1.1: Provision of a three days training on how to conduct VRA for 25 commune councillors and P&B committee members (1 day to cover concept, 1 day for practical exercise, and 1 day for information analysis);

Activity 1.1.2: Cooperation with commune councils and relevant NGOs to conduct VRA in 7 target villages of Chong Ampil commune;
Activity 1.1.3: Coordination with Chong Ampil commune council and relevant stakeholders to conduct an analysis of data collected from VRA; and
Activity 1.1.4: Holding of a meeting with commune council, P&B committee to reflect on lessons and good practices in VRA application in public consolation process.
Outputs 1.2: Draft CIP 2015 for Chong Ampil had incorporated climate change issues in sectoral situation analysis.
Activity 1.2.1: Holding of a meeting with commune council, P&B committee and relevant stakeholders to conduct an analysis of sectoral issues and needs with relevant NGOs applying the following matrices:
Activity 1.2.2: Drafting of a CIP document;
Activity 1.2.3: Holding of a meeting with local people and relevant stakeholders to validate the CIP;
Activity 1.2.4: Collaboration with commune council to participate in district integration workshop;
Activity 1.2.5: Submission of draft final of the investment programme to the district council for review and adoption; and

Activity 1.2.6: Holding meeting with commune council and relevant stakeholders to reflect on lessons and good practices in CIP process.
Outcome 2: Contribute to enhance adaptation practices of Chong Ampil communities through adaptation actions stated in CIP 2015.
Output 2.1: Some climate change adaptation actions prescribed in the CIP 2015 are supported and implemented to contribute to adaptation by the community to climate change
Activity 2.1.1 Holding meeting with procurement committee by type of supported activity to strengthen the role of members and fix schedule for bidding;
Activity 2.1.2: Organisation of bidding process for supported projects and coordinate with a bank for opening a commune private account;
Activity 2.1.3: Organisation for signing an agreement with service provider; and

Activity 2.1.4: Holding meeting with commune council to transfer the fund to the commune.
Output 2.2: Lessons and good practices from mainstreaming climate change issues in CIP development process documented and shared with relevant stakeholders.
Activity 2.2.1: Holding meeting with beneficiaries such as commune council (P&B committee) and relevant stakeholders to identify lessons and good practices for sharing;
Activity 2.2.2: Documentation of case studies of project successes;

Activity 2.2.3: Production of video or digital stories on mainstreaming climate change issues in CIP processes; and
Activity 2.2.4: Participation in workshops to share lessons and good practices from mainstreaming climate change in CIP processes.