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Foreword
I am pleased to present to you World Vision International in Cambodia’s 2023 Impact Report reflecting our steadfast commitment to bringing about transformative change to the lives of the most vulnerable children and communities across the country. World Vision’s mission to serve all people, regardless of their background or location, especially in the most challenging environments, remains at the core of our work.
Over the past year, World Vision has made significant strides in advancing child well-being, with a focus on enriching children’s lives and instilling positive values through all of our interventions. In the fiscal year of 2022-2023, more than 1.5 million children in Cambodia have benefitted directly and indirectly from World Vision’s multi sectorial initiatives. We have worked with children, youth, community-based organisations, government authorities at national and subnational levels, local NGOs, faith leaders and development partners, reinforcing our dedication to promoting child well-being through strategic partnerships and collaboration.
World Vision’s approach revolves around empowering communities to address the root causes of poverty and our Child Well-being Strategy aims to positively impact over 5 million girls and boys in Cambodia by 2027. Key objectives include fostering positive and peaceful relationships within families and communities, enhancing protection from violence, improving nutritional status, increasing literacy rates among primary school children, promoting adaption and mitigation of impacts of climate changes, as well as improving education, health and commune administration services through facilitating dialogue and collaboration with service providers and citizens.
This report displays many stories of changes and highlights impacts happening on the ground, thanks to strong collaboration and partnership with stakeholders, and the generous funding from World Vision’s supporters and development partners. As a result of World Vision’s work with partners, stakeholders and communities in 2023, 1,263 malnourished children were identified and supported at home or referred to the nearby health centres, 78,395 people gained access to clean water, 47 Communes achieved Open Defacation Free status; 28 Agricultural Cooperatives with 4,040 members were strengthened and now manage a capital fund of US$ 1,274,377 and invested US$ 6,500 back into their communities through a social fund; 187 Small to Medium term Enterprises have been supported to access loans amounting to US$ 5,258,084 to grow their businesses; 87% of Communes where World Vision works allocated their own budget to strengthen the child protection mechanisms in their areas; 78 schools changed their practice to include regular meetings with parents of low performing children to make a joint support plan and 2,150 disaster affected families, including 4,345 children were positivey impacted by World Vision’s flood response. In addition, as a result of implementation of social accountability systems, 470 commune administrations, 379 health centres and 2,088 primary schools used by over 3.7 million citizens strengthened their service provision.
I also want to express my gratitude to our dedicated staff, partners, donors, sponsors and the Royal Government of Cambodia, who make all this work possible. Together, let us be a force for positive change, ensuring a brighter and more inclusive future for all children and communities in
Cambodia.
Thank you very much, Orkun Jreun
Janes Imanuel Ginting
National Director