Author: Sao Chenda
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.GD-07-20
Year: 2007
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2007
Examination Committee: Kyoko Kusakabe (Chairperson); Philippe Doneys, Soparth Pongquan (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The RPRP is the name of the development project that is mainly financial support by IFAD as loan and cofinance by World Food Program and Partnership for Local Governance. It consists of 3 components in its own project including agriculture investment, local development and institutional support in order to help the two groups of farmers, LIG (Livelihood Improvement Group) and FSI (Farmers System Improvement). As gender issues are cross-cutting issues theme, gender mainstreaming activities are being integrated in this project. Gender monitoring is a crucial part of the gender activities to control over the project implementation on gender mainstreaming. Recently, gender monitoring system had developed its system by introducing gender reporting system to answer to the needs of qualitative information. Therefore, this study attempts to assess on the implementation of this gender monitoring system and explore its possible way to introduce this gender monitoring system into gender plan and need to establish it as routine work. This study was conducted among 64 respondents from the 2 provinces, Prey Veng and Svay Rieng. 48 respondents were the project staffs and others 16 respondents were the stakeholders. Key informant interview was conducted to identify the situation of gender monitoring system, their management strategy and their communication. Moreover, the informal interview was also conducted with diferent gender specialists from different projects in MoWA and the advisor of the program advisor from UNDP in order to get the information on their opinion and experience of gender monitoring from various project. In particular, a few village leaders had been interviewed to check the activities of the project staffs and WCFPs at the field level. The study had introduced the implementation of gender mainstreaming and its benefit of using the gender monitoring system, especially introduced gender monitoring that is mainly content this whole study. Gender monitoring system had been produced in which focus on the monitor
Scholarship Donor(s): SWEDEN (SIDA)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Gender and Development Studies, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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