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Project Overview

The impact of the Project will be improved livelihoods. The outcome of the Project will be increased access to assets in the five provinces that adjoin the Tonle Sap. To accomplish this outcome, the project has three closely interrelated outputs:

Output 1 aims to support community-driven development through:

• Establishing a community-livelihood fund
• Designing and implementing livelihood investment packages

Output 2 aims to safeguard core areas through:

• Establishing an information base on core areas
• Instituting a management system for core areas
• Instituting an improved network of fish sanctuaries

Output 3 aims to build skills and awareness for sustainable livelihoods through:

• Improving coordination for community-driven development
• Enhancing the skills base for community-driven development
• Educating for protection of natural resources

The Project will benefit people in the communes that are located either fully or partly in the buffer zone and core areas. Specifically, the project area covers 37 communes surrounding the lake in which there are a total of 316 villages with a population of 287,430 in 54,857 families.

The benefits and impacts of the Project are:

• Environmental, e.g., sustainable livelihoods, core areas, environmental education and awareness
• Institutional, e.g., institutional incentives, self-reliance, service delivery
• Human and social, e.g., collective action, gender, social infrastructure, ethnic minorities
• Economic and financial