Archive for the ‘Cambodia’ Category
Happy 10th Birthday Banteay Srei!
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Happy 10th Birthday Banteay Srei
When, in 1985, IWDA began working in Cambodia, we hoped to build a strong and long lasting partnership with Khmer women, their families and communities, through income and food security projects, such as rice mills, empowerment and agricultural techniques training.
In 2000, after the phase out of the IWDA office, IWDA was proud and excited to support the establishment of Banteay Srei as an independent organisation.
Looking back now, in 2010, we can certainly say that a strong and long lasting partnership has been formed, through which we have learnt and grown together.
Tags: Banteay Srei, Events/Campaigns/Press Releases
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Newsletter from Cambodia
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Greetings! I would like to introduce myself, Ann Wigglesworth, and I’m delighted to have now returned to IWDA as Programs Team Leader, my second time working for the organisation.
In 1996 I travelled to Cambodia to work with the IWDA Cambodia office (now Banteay Srei). At that time we were planning the implementation of an AusAID funded project ‘Food for Change’, a project including ‘Cow Banks’ and agriculture training that was set up to respond to the dire situation of the large numbers of traumatised widows in the aftermath of Khmer Rouge atrocities and ‘killing fields’. According to Thavy, one of our first Cambodian co-coordinators, at the time ‘people were only thinking of how to fill their stomachs’. But the cows became much more than an economic asset, contributing to the healing process for widows by becoming a part of their family. They symbolised hope and renewal.
In the field of international development, it is all too rare to have the chance to revisit communities to observe project impact over the long term. It has thus been an exciting opportunity to return last month to Cambodia and the IWDA supported Banteay Srei projects after 15 years.
Tags: Banteay Srei, Programs
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Increasing Female Voices in Mine-action Planning and Prioritisation
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
An article written by IWDA consultants on the Community Strengthening and Gender Mainstreaming in Integrated Mine Action (CSGMIMA) Project in Cambodia has recently been published in The Journal of ERW and Mine Action, which highlights a pilot project aimed at ‘Increasing Female Voices in Mine-Action Planning and Prioritisation’.
Tags: Cambodia, Landmines, Safety and Security
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Community Action Against Violence Against Women
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Community Action Against Violence Against Women (CAAVAW)
Country: Cambodia
Partners: Banteay Srei, Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC)
Funder: This is funded through the AusAid Australia-Cambodia Cooperation Agreement.
The project was designed by
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Tags: ADHOC, Banteay Srei, Cambodia, Safety and Security, Violence Against Women
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Integrated Mine Action
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Community Strengthening and Gender Mainstreaming in Integrated Mine Action (CSGMIMA)
Partners: Mines Advisory Group (MAG) and World Vision Cambodia
Country: Cambodia
IWDA works in partnership with World Vision Cambodia and MAG on
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Tags: Cambodia, Landmines, MAG, Safety and Security
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Cambodia Mine Action
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
by Kate Burrell, Cambodia Program Manager
In Cambodia IWDA has commenced groundbreaking work placing gender at the centre of an AusAID funded mine action project.
Working with World Vision Australia/Cambodia and the
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