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Partners & Donors

Since CRDT began in 2001, we have made many friends and developed working partnerships with several international organizations. Our most valued partners are Worldwide Fund for Nature, the Cambodian Mekong Dolphin Conservation Project, and Wildlife Conservation Society. Please click on the links below to learn more about our partners...

ViDA Organisation

VIDA (Volunteering for International Development from Australia) is part of the Australian Government's volunteer program. Funded by AusAID, the Australian Government agency responsible for managing Australia's overseas aid program, the VIDA program places skilled Australian volunteers in developing countries in the Asia Pacific region. VIDA volunteers work with local counterparts to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development in the communities through skills and knowledge exchange, institutional strengthening and capacity building.

 

VSO is an international development charity that works through volunteers. Their vision is a world without poverty in which people work together to fulfil their potential. Instead of sending food or money, they send people from a wide range of professions who want the chance to make a real difference in the fight against poverty. The volunteers work in partnership with colleagues and communities to share skills and learning and achieve positive change together, building capacity and creating sustainable change. The volunteers are skilled professionals. They bring people together to share skills, creativity and learning to build a fairer world. VSO welcomes volunteers from an ever increasing range of countries, backgrounds and ages. National agencies in Canada, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Ireland and India recruit volunteers from many different countries worldwide. This international approach allows them to combine and learn from a rich variety of perspectives. They are by far the largest independent volunteer-sending agency in the world. Since 1958, they have sent over 43,000 volunteers to work in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, the Pacific and Eastern Europe in response to requests from governments and community organisations. Right now there are around 1,500 volunteers working in 42 of the world’s poorest countries. In all the countries where VSO works, they are represented by a Programme Office. Staff and volunteers in the Programme Offices work together with local partner agencies, and increasingly with the people whose interests VSO aims to serve, to agree a programme of development priorities in their country and region. 

 

Donors

 

Project: Strengthening and Development of Community Based Eco-Tourism in Kratie

The Fundacion Promocion Social de la Cultura (FPSC) is a private Spanish non-profit organization that has been working since 1987 to support human development and the promotion of culture.  FPSC has been actively supporting projects in over 30 countries with the support of private donors and public institutions. The FPSC targets human, social and economic development by recognizing and strengthening the dignity of people through their work. The FPSC’s programmes and projects fully respect the cultural identity of the people. FPSC focuses on supporting “small, dynamic and independent organizations”, as this permits on one hand, to strengthen and to capitalize the work done and on the other, to face future challenges with a high capacity of management, optimization of resources and low-cost budgets.

 

The Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECID) was established in November 1988 as a management authority of the Spanish policy of international cooperation for development. The latter is a fundamental aspect of the relationship between democratic states with countries that have not reached the same level of development. Therefore, development cooperation is part of the external action of States and must be based on an interdependent and solidarity of international society and the relationships it develops. AECID is an entity of public law under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation through the Secretariat of State for International Cooperation (SECI) and is responsible for the design, implementation and management of projects and programmes for development cooperation, either directly from its own resources or through collaboration with other national and international NGOs.  

 

Project: Civil Society and Pro-Poor Market Development for Alternative Livelihood Sustainability

Oxfam was one of the first international aid agencies to start working in Cambodia in 1979, after the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime was ousted from Phnom Penh. During the 1980s, Oxfam worked with the Royal Government of Cambodia to rebuild the devastated infrastructure of the country, with a heavy emphasis on providing clean water and sanitation. In the build-up to the elections in 1993, Oxfam started to concentrate on the need to build strong and supportive civil society institutions. This approach still characterises our programme in Cambodia today. Our focus here ranges from providing sustainable livelihoods to ensure food and income security, to dealing with problems caused by natural disasters and deforestation, and campaigning for the protection of workers’ rights in foreign-contracted factories.

 

Project: Dolphins for Development: Chance for Survival Phase II

Established in 1988 as a private foundation under Swiss law, the Pro Victimis Foundation's primary mission is to alleviate the plight of forgotten victims of natural or man-made disasters. PVF funds development and reconstruction aid programmes at the request, in general, of non-governmental organisations or social entrepreneurs. Priority is given to victims who receive little or no assistance. The Foundation’s headquarters are in Geneva.

 

Project: Dolphins for Development Capacity Building and Environmental Education for Wetlands Conservation Awareness

              

The Wetlands Alliance Programme (WAP) is a collaboration consisting of four partners: WWF, the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the Coastal Resources Institute (CORIN) and the World Fish Centre. The programme/collaboration was designed as means to strengthen local-level capacity for sustainable, poverty focused wetlands management. WAP will focus on building relationships between national and local institutional partners in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam using the existing staff capacity and experience. This unique approach will allow Alliance members to simplify, streamline and enhance collective efforts towards effective wetlands management. Through collaboration and improved coordination, Alliance members will be able to work with a greater number and wider range of institutional partners than possible on an individual basis.

 

Project: Dolphins for Development Projects

WWF has been active in Cambodia since 1997, working on a range of conservation programs around many parts of country. Using the best available scientific knowledge and advancing that knowledge wherever possible, WWF works to preserve the diversity and abundance of life and the health of ecological systems by protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species; promoting sustainable approaches to the use of renewable natural resources; and promoting more efficient use of resources and energy and the maximum reduction of pollution. WWF is committed to reversing the degradation of the natural environment and to building a future in which human needs are met in harmony with nature. The WWF Living Mekong Program has been working throughout the region for four years on conservation along the Mekong River, and includes the Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin as a flagship species for conservation. Since January 2005, WWF Cambodia has assumed management of the Cambodian Mekong Dolphin Conservation Project (formerly MDCP) and CRDT and WWF Cambodia share a Cooperation Agreement in order to better coordinate activities related to dolphin and ecosystem conservation along the Mekong River.

 

Project: Integrated Development for Damrei Phong

The McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based private philanthropic organization, seeks to improve the quality of life for present and future generations. Through grant making, coalition-building, and encouragement of strategic policy reform, they use their resources to attend, unite, and empower those they serve.

The Australian Government's overseas aid program is a federally funded program that aims to reduce poverty in developing countries. The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) manages the program. Australia gives aid because it wishes to help those less fortunate than their own citizens. Nearly one billion people live on less than US$1 a day. Two billion people have no access to clean water, while 150 million children never get the chance to go to school. Australians believe that giving aid is the right thing to do; it makes a real difference to other people's lives.

 

Project: Sustainable Land Use and Management in Support of Ethinic Bunong Communities

 

WCS has been working in Cambodia since 1999 under a MoU with the Royal Government signed jointly with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Environment. WCS’ focus is on saving wildlife and their habitats. They achieve this through research, field-based training and capacity building for Government staff, pioneering environmental education programmes and the production of appropriate technology and awareness raising materials, and through sustainable resource management initiatives. Today WCS is at work in 53 nations across Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America, protecting wild landscapes that are home to a vast variety of species. As of 2005, CRDT and WCS Cambodia also share a Cooperation Agreement in order to better coordinate activities related to ecosystem conservation in project areas.

 

 Project: Kai’s Village Orphanage Sustainable Farm Project

CamKids, the Cambodian Children’s Charity, brings together a number of people who have been touched by the plight of Cambodian children, in one way or another, and who are dedicated to doing something to improve the quality of their lives. They are a UK registered charity, based in London whose main purpose is to help children in Cambodia who are either poor or whose parents are not there for them: orphans, street children, children living in poor rural areas and children affected by natural disasters, such as flood or famine. In a country where there is a high rate of child abandonment, they also support programs to help strengthen vulnerable families and keep them together.