Bio-diversity

This project is fully funded by UNDP TRAC fund. The project is aiming at improving health of Community Forestry members and raising awareness of villagers and school students on mechanism of using clean water and contributed to reduce water born diseases. This project covered 22 villages, 5 communes in Otdar Meanchey province. With support from UNDP TRAC fund, project was able to conduct awareness raising meeting with villagers, school student and monks on forest resources conservation, provide 4 pumping wells to 4 villages, credit sell of 774 Ceramic Water Purifier (CWP) to 774 families, provide 126 CWP for public centers including 46 CWP for pagodas, 76 CWP for schools and 4 CWP for remote community based health centers. The project also credit sell of water 220 jars to community forestry members, 1 for commune council office and two for small pagodas use for collecting/harvesting rain water. This project will provide direct benefit to 1,047 women through credit sell of CWP and water gar as most of women role is collecting and boiling water for the whole family members. By have CWP as well water jars and pumping well closed to their house, more than 1,000 women can save firewood and their time spend for boiling water and collecting unsafe water sources. Project also provides capacity building to on how to use CWP and the advantage of harvesting rain water to 4,786 beneficiaries (1583 women, 1,398 men and 1,805 school children. For sustainability used of pumping well, project has assist villagers to organize water use committee to maintain and mange those pumping wells. Project expected that from those intervention women and their family will have good health and have more times to participate with community development work, especially participated in forest resources conservation through participate in patrolling of forest land manage by community forestry.

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