Inception and Planning Workshop

Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice

Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin

Cambodia Group

- “Enhance rainfed smallholder farmers capacity

confronting climate change sustainably by

applying SRI through Participatory Action

Research in order to improve food security,

income and occupational health status”.

Project Goal

The immediate objectives of the projects:

1. To increase the capacity of the SRI Secretariat to be functioned well as a coordination body to promote SRI application;

2. To identify appropriate techniques through participatory action researches at research institutes, academic schools and farmer level ;

3. To strengthen the capacity of human resources at national, provincial, district and farmers level to promote SRI;

Project Objective

Target Province for implementing Mekong SRI Poject

1. Obj 1: To increase the capacity of the SRI Secretariat to be

functioned well as a coordination body to promote SRI

application;

- Organize SRI net work meeting

- Gathering all relevant information on SRI from

Stakeholders and make them available for contribution;

- Provide technical backstopping visit for strengthening

SRI application;

- Coordinate with public Institutions and NGOs for SRI

promotion and application

Activities

Obj. 2: To identify appropriate techniques through

participatory action researches at research institutes,

academic schools and farmer level;

- Conduct participatory appraisal

- Carry out baseline survey

- Identify critical SRI practices for conducting more

researches

- Conduct participatory action researches on farms and at

stations;

- Conduct conference/seminar for share learning

experiences with internal and national stakeholders;

- Document all findings from the PAR

Activities

3. To strengthen the capacity of human resources at national, provincial,

district and farmers level to promote SRI application;

- Conduct inception and planning workshop

- Conduct mini-TOT at target provinces,

- Conduct Farmer Field School (FFS) and Student Field School;

- Set up on farms demonstration in FFS;

- Organize study visits;

- Organize post-FFS activities;

- Set up M&E system to identify and promote SRI application;

- Develop extension materials

- Conduct annual workshop

Activities

Annual Workplan from April to Dec 2013

No Activities Semester 1 Budget/ Person

Apr May June Output resource responsible

1

Prepare Country Strategy

Paper

A draft

CSP

Finalize Country Strategy

Paper

A final

CSP

2 Set up Project Structure

- Identify PMU institution

and member

Structure

PMU

- Establish LMU and select

district staff

Structure

LMU

Annual Workplan from April to Dec 2013

No Activities

1 Semester 2 Budget/ Person

June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Output resource

Responsibl

e

4

Conduct National Project Inception

workshop 1st W

Final Workplan,

Dissimilation

information 8000 PMU

5

Conduct Participatory Rural

Appraisal Report 6000

PMU and

Expert

6

Indentify targeted districts and

farmers Selected targets PMU

7 Base line survey

Background

information 7000 PMU

8

Design CFPAR and develop

curricula of Mini-TOT, FFS and

post-FFS on PAR

Curriculum

developed 10,000 PMU

Thank You