2.5 Million USD of Integrated Rural Development Project in Krouch Chhmar District Reaches the Official Implementation in English

2.5 Million USD of Integrated Rural Development Project in Krouch Chhmar District Reaches the Official Implementation

KOICA News Release: translate from local newspaper

Raksmei Kampuchea Daily Newspaper:

Year 18 Volume 5324, Thursday, October 14, 2010

Phnom Penh: Meeting on Integrated Development Project in Krouch Chhmar District, Kampong Cham Province under grant aid of KOICA (Photo).

2.5 Million USD will be used on the Integrated Rural Development Project in Krouch Chhmar district, Kampong Cham province under the grant aid of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

H.E. Chea Sophara, Minister of the Ministry of Rural Development, and Dr. Shin Eui-Cheol, Representative of KOICA Cambodia Office, some KOICA delegates and other relevant government officials participated in the seminar on this development, focusing on main objectives of the project.

According to the KOICA press release which Raksmei Kampuchea received on Tuesday, October 12, revealed that the objective of the seminar focuses on the propagation of the implementation of the integrated rural development project in Krouch Chhmar, which is being implemented for 24 months, starting from April 2010. Secondly, the revelation about general information on the situation of the project implementation site, and lastly obtaining recommendation and good experiences from all participants.

To participate in the poverty alleviation of the local people, KOICA, a government agency for grant aid programs to Cambodia, is supporting the Ministry of Rural Development with the strategic plan to implement the integrated rural development program in the communities, villages, communes, districts and provinces in the whole country.

H.E. Chea Sophara, Minister of the Ministry of Rural Development, said that the implementation of the project on the Integrated Rural Development in Krouch Chhmar district provides immense benefits to the local people such as the rehabilitation of the irrigation system, water reservoir, transportation infrastructures, the introducing of new agricultural technology, health and sanitation, and the upgrading of educational system in the local community.

Dr. Shin Eui Cheol, Representative of KOICA Cambodia Office, said that the project in Krouch Chhmar enhances the capacity of national and provincial officials to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate other rural development projects. Dr. Shin added that this project reaches the invitation of government officials who are associated with the project to train in the Republic of Korea on the training course “Integrated Rural Community Development”.

Through the Ministry of Rural Development, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) provided “The Project for Rural Development in Kampong Cham” in 2006, “The Project for the Formulation of Rural Development Policy and Strategy” in 2007, and “KOICA-JICA Joint Project on the Construction of Irrigation and Rural Development in Kampong Cham” in 2009. Moreover, many other rural development-related projects have been provided through other line-ministries to develop rural physical infrastructures as well. All these projects are playing an important role in supporting the policy program of the royal government in poverty alleviation strategy, and achieving the Cambodia Millennium Development Goal in 2015.