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COSECAM Strategic Workshop and CETHCam Annual Workshop

COSECAM organized two separate events, Strategic Workshop and CETHCam Annual Workshop, on 18 and 19 March, 2010 respectively at Phnom Penh Hotel.

Both workshops gave an update to COSECAM's achievements and those of CETHCam project between October 2008 and December 2009 and the project’s revised formats, Coordinated Case Management pilot project and its approach, experience and lessons learned shared by project’s service providers.

A total of 47 people from 16 service providers, membership organizations and COSECAM attended CETHCam workshop on the first day and 48 people joined COSECAM annual workshop on the second day. All participants were senior staff from those organizations.

Those service providers included Cambodian Defenders Project, Legal Service for Children and Women, KnK Network Cambodia, Komar Rik Reay, Meatophum Komar (Homeland), Cambodian Children Against Starvation and Violence Association (CCASVA), Cambodian Women's Development Agency (CWDA), Cambodian Center for the Protection of Children Rights (CCPCR), Domnok Toek Cambodia, Domnok Toek Poipet, Healthcare Center for Children (HCC), Komar Ney Kdey Sangkheum (KNKS), HAGAR, Destiny, EDVP and Ockenden.

COSECAM Coalition Director, Mr. Tuon Vicheth, said in the workshop that CETHCam project, funded by the European Commission through Netherlands-based ICCO, focused on three main activities, which included eliminating illegal or abnormal migration, reducing human trafficking, and ensuring that the victims and vulnerable people enjoyed a sustainable livelihood.

“To this end, we have carried out three activities. Firstly, we strengthen the institutional framework. I want to say that we can succeed in implementing a project to support the victims as long as the institution is strengthened. Secondly, we build the capacity of staff from partnership organizations, government’s officials, and the operators. Thirdly, we protect, rehabilitate and reintegrate the victims,” said Mr. Tuon Vicheth.

“Today, I would also like to forward EU’s message. EU wants sustainable livelihood of target groups or target beneficiaries,” he added.

New chairwoman of COSECAM Steering Committee, Mrs. Hun Phanna, who is also acting director of CWDA, suggested to the workshop that members of the coalition share experience and knowledge to strengthen the coalition.

“On behalf of the Steering Committee, I would like all of you who are present here to share experience and knowledge to strengthen our coalition by finding comprehensive and effective strategy to operate our coalition,” said Mrs. Phun Phanna.

According to the Finance Unit of CETHCam project, between October 2008 and December 2009, CETHCam provided a total of 587,596 US dollars to those sixteen service providers. During that period, it supported up to 3,695 immediate victims of trafficking and migrants, especially, children and young women.

The number of indirect beneficiaries from the project was around 16,000 persons. Meanwhile, 645 community leaders, activists and members from 9 communities were sensitized to the project and issues related to human trafficking and illegal migration.

For the second round of grant agreement, it has already renewed its grants for all current 16 sevice providers.

According to the presentation by the Technical Coordination Unit, CETHCam has been lobbying working group on victim protection and reintegration to accept its Coordinated Case Management as a standard system.

The first pilot of Coordinated Case Management project has been implemented in Battambang province and expanded to the neighboring provinces of Pailin, Banteay Meanchey and Poipet.

The second pilot project started in October 2009 in Svay Rieng province, while the third one will be studied and selected in May this year.

At the workshop, the Institutional and Human Resources Development Program of COSECAM, which was set up to strengthen the capacity of member and non-member organizations on organizational management, project implementation and psycho-social counseling, said it had organized eight training courses in 2009.

Those courses were on leadership, performance management, management of change, project management, business writing and correspondence, cost controls and budget planning, public administration and strategic planning.

In 2009, COSECAM's Advocacy and Research Program organized seven workshops for 24 girls from member organizations, established peer educator group, and organized the anti-human trafficking day. The program also cooperated with ECPAT and NGO-CRC to collect data of rape and human trafficking and this activity remains in course.

At the two workshops, representatives from COSECAM’s partners—HAGAR and Ockenden—and member organizations also presented their best practices, experience and lesson learned to the participants.

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