From 12-15 May 2008, I and Mr. Kin Mengse went to Battambang province to check whether village promoters are working well or they are not on the role. In case of Battambang province, we have not been there for 2 months since the first meetings on the introductory workshops were organized among the commune council members and village chief. It is to note that the village promoters were not selected as we lack of follow up activity with the commune chief and other relevant people. I think that CFA (Community Field Assistant) should be selected to help in running the project as we have no any staff working there.
If we have CFA, we will be able to close ourselves to the community people and local authority so that the information flow among each other will be enhanced to ensure good dissemination of AI message as well as the technique of ecological chicken raising. Anyway, we have only 4 months later to train the community people on 3 topics differently such as the message of avian influenza, ecological chicken raising, and poultry disease and its prevention method. Therefore, the we actually need to work hard in this area, otherwise we could not accomplish our expectation as the project’s plan.
Moreover, we have distributed some learning materials relating to Avian Influenza to the commune chief and other local stakeholders, such as sticker, calendar and poster. Hopefully, as many as people could get the learning materials from the commune chief and village chief so that they are aware of this issue and pay more attention to AI infection. Additionally, from 26-30 May, we plan to visit Siem Reap province, we will be able to see the progress of our project in Siem Reap province.
