Third Week of November 07 Journal

The Third Week Report:

For the third week of November 2007, we are all in KCM performed our own activities regarding to the plan. As Mr. Neth Sovann the Multimedia Coordinator resigned from project at the end of October, 2007, the CDs is lacking of the supervisor on their script writing and also sound editing. So this week I spent some of my time to assist them in editing scripts and comment on audio production; up to the end of the week 3 topics of audio production were produced. Those are Domestic Violence, Seasonal Influenza and Home Composting, based on my observation, the CDs improved their skills in writing script but eventhough they still need some supervision to make their script better enough. These scripts produced according to the result of needs assessment and baseline survey, also based on commenting of health key person in the community. But unfortunately, these products not yet convert to the cassette for distribute to Pagoda because it take long time to recording into cassette. The pagodas that have to distribute to broadcast are 11 so it’s taking at least 2 days so that why they can not distribute to pagoda.

The Research Coordinator was dispatch to Phnom Penh and Prey Veng to contact with project boundary partners like the Provincial Department of Agriculture, Department of Extension of Ministry of Agriculture, CARDI (Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute) and also with VSF organization. The mission of the RC is to build collaboration between the projects with those partners and to ask some technical books and leaflet or magazine for the reference book for content development.

Beside to these, I spent my time to look at the CV of candidates for the position of Community Facilitator (CF), as result we get 6 candidates who fit to the need of the project. In fact, all CFs were recruited since the end of 2006, but because of the delaying of the employment some of recruited CFs have other job to do and some endeavors their study. Up to present the project have 6 CFs which 4 already employed and other 2 not yet, so to fill all the Hubs the project need 4 more CFs to fill in the spare places. Hopefully all CFs will be employed to work at the beginning of December, 2007.

With my best Regards,
Dimanche Long