Dawn to dusk, on October 05, 2009, I participated in a monthly meeting of FNP coordination team at CEDAC head office in Phnom Penh. Almost all project officers attended the one-day meeting for sharing project’s monthly progress, presentation on ICM project by Mr. Him Neun, discussion on cooperation and other management issues.
I think that the meeting enabled the participants to learn more ideas about self-improvement and project management skills, including project’s financial management, procurement procedure, etc. If all of us have well known about this, it actually contributes to improve working performance of CEDAC as a whole. Definitely, strong team members will absolutely contribute to build up a real strong team as a result.
On the other hand, I would like to add that I was a part of the meeting to facilitate in determining main indicators of CEDAC community development. In addition to the indicators, I think that it is good for us to use the common indicators for measuring the impact of the projects. At the present, I can note that different projects use different indicators so that we are difficult to synthesize those indicators meanwhile they are inconsistent and various. In fact, we will be easy to see the impact of CEDAC in serving for rural development work, if we can systematically analyze those indicators. Moreover, it will be necessary important for us to know certainly about the progress and impact of CEDAC, so that we can state those finding data in official working papers. Furthermore, we will increase self-confidence if we can know the reliable impact of our work in the field. It will motivate us to look forward.
- I think that all development projects of CEDAC should include to use the common indicators that we have developed, it does mean that despite some projects possibly have more various indicators than the others, but the common indicators should be included,
- Progress / impact of those indicators need to be conducted regularly every year so that it can be placed in annual report of CEDAC Field Program,
