Wathnakpheap Organization - Communities Build Cambodia

ABOUT WATHNAKPHEAP

Vision:

Communities Build Cambodia

Mission:

Contribute to improving opportunities for disadvantaged children, women and their families.
Foster Children's rights in Cambodia.

Aims and Objectives:

To improve the quality of life of disadvantaged women, children, and other vulnerable groups through community-based and locally initiated activities, and by linking development with the local culture and needs of the people.
To facilitate self-reliant development in communities by using largely internal resources, with the aim, improving the quality of communal life which will benefit all members of the community, especially its children.

The roles (and specialties) of Wathnakpheap as an NGO at national level are:

To identify rural areas in Cambodia with communities eager to enter into a partnership for development.
To identify and build the capacity of local groups and individuals to plan, organize and implement community development with a focus on marginalized children and youth.
To form and train project organization (NGOs) at District or Provincial level who will take over from Wathnakpheap such as partnerships with the communities within a period of 5-6 years.
Secure the funding for such projects by assuming accountability and the responsibility for professional quality of work and proper use of funds towards donors.

History

Wathnakpheap (WP), a Cambodian NGO registered with the Government since 1997, has a longstanding experience in community development since 1992 when its team started to work for the country program of Pestalozzi Children's Foundation (PCF), a Switzerland-based international NGO. WP has its headquarters in Phnom Penh and has a Governing Board with 5 members.

In earlier Pursat projects WP supported the process of localising in four districts where 4 project organisations were created. 3 of them are independent; Komar Ney Kdey Sangkheum (KNKS), Ponleur Kumar (PK), Anakut Kumar (AK) and working in partnership under the umbrella of Wathnakpheap since 2003. Only one project district organisation (Kolbot Khmer) is still under supervision of WP but it is planned to localise in 2007.

Based on 11 years of working experience in Pursat, Wathnakpheap extended the community-based child development program to the remote areas of Svay Rieng (in late 2004) and Siem Reap (in late 2005) Provinces, with an unusually high poverty rate and out migration. In addition, the new projects in Svay Rieng and Siem Reap Province focus on risk prevention and community-based alternative rehabilitation for children and youth victims and at high risk of trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation.

Organizational Development
Ms. Dor Soma	Wathnakpheap Head Office: • Ms. Dor Soma was appointed as Deputy Director in June 2004. • Ms. Heng Chanthon was appointed as Finance Officer in Oct-04.	Ms. Heng Chanthon
Ms. Chim Rina	Wathnakpheap's project and local partners in Pursat: • Ms. Chim Rina was appointed as project manager for Krakor District Project in November 2003. • Ms. Sok Sothavy, Director of local NGO(KNKS), partners of Wathnakpheap since January 2002	Ms. Sok Sothavy

Among the 3 WP's partner organizations, there are 2 women who were appointed as Director.
many staff of WP and partners had opportunities to attend different training course inside and outside the country during the year of 2004:

• Analysis Development Issues (2 Staffs)

• Project Cycle Management (3 Staffs)

• Project Monitoring & Planning (3 Staffs)

• HIV/AIDS Life Skills Training (3 Staffs)

Staffs are able to support communities in ranking their problem through PLA

• Poverty Reduction (1 Staff)

• Psycho Social Councelling (2 Staffs)

• Advocacy (2 Staffs)

• Participatory Learning & Action(5 Staffs)

• Community Organization Performance Assessment (14 Staffs)

• Fund Raising (2 Staffs)

• Research (4 Staffs)

• Bachelor Management (3 Staffs)

The participatory external evaluations of the Pursat projects have been done over the years:

• 2002: covered WP's program concept and strategies; management and organizational development and the sector of Community Organizing.

• 2003: covered the sector of Income Generation (include Micro-financial services) and Employment.

• 2004: Covered the sector of Education, Literacy and Skills training.

• Monthly working group meetings participated by related senior project staff are maintained at Pursat province to take action following up key recommendations of the evaluations.

The Organizational policies, constitution, staff policies, internal regulations, administration.financial-manual and field manual (practical guidelines) and governance rules are in place and a detailed master project plans exist for every project.

Strategies program expansion of WP in Svay Rieng and Siem Reap, and the Career Resource Center (CRC) are also in place. CRC is a new project aims to create employment for trainees within province town and communities. Moreover, WP's partners have been developing strategies for program expansion to Kompong Chnang and Takeo province by 2005

The information data collection of the program was computerised in a database at Wathnakpheap headquarter, after finalising the tests Wathnakpheap will train partners and staffs of the project in Krakor in 2005.

WP and its local NGO partners are increasingly networking with the government from national to provincial level, and with NGOs/IOs who are both within country and overseas such as NGO Committee on the Rights of the Child (NGO CRC), End of Child Pornography And Trafficking of Children for Sexual Exploitation (ECPAT), Vocational Training Committees (VTC). The Director involves in the Steering Committee of COSECAM, leads a group of NGOs research on Marketable Skills Training for Youth at the remote areas funding by NEP and actively shared experiences on localisation process, good governance to NGOs such as CWS, ERM.

The follow up Audit 2003 action plan, Wathnakpheap(WP) introduced financial system software “QuickBooks” mid 2004. From 2005, WP complete accountancy will use Quick Book.

Wathnakpheap's Financial Summary For 2004
INCOME	US Dollars
Balance 31 December 2003	261,480
Remitted from PCF	268,410
DED	8,665
The Asia Foundation (TAF)	25,000
International Organization Migration (IOM)	20,000
Christian Aid	3,845
ILO/IPEC	1,898
CARE	78,509
Japan Embassy	13,754
Oxfam G.B	795
UNICEF	625
Income form projects	10,020
Bank interest	6,792
TOTAL	699,793
EXPENDITURE
Education and Skill training	172,383
Child rights and social welfare	84,398
Income and employment generation	120,462
Community organizing	97,424
Management cost	65,545
TOTAL	540,212

PO Box 90, No. 3, St. 323, Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tel/Fax: (+855) 23 880 854, E-mail: wp@online.com.kh