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PROGRAMME DE RÉHABILITATION ET APPUI AU SECTEUR AGRICOLE DU CAMBODGE (PRASAC II)

 

I.                   Introduction

 

1.     Background: PRASAC is an EU-funded rural development programme working in rural areas of six provinces. Recently PRASAC decided to expand its activities to five other provinces, totaling is eleven provinces.  The first phase of PRASAC runs from January 1995 to February 1998 under the PERC agreement between the EU and Cambodia.

 

2.     Objectives: To rehabilitate and support the rural sector in order to further the conditions for autonomous self-sustaining development in the 6 target provinces (see geographic area, below).

 

3. Counterparts/Partners: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Ministry of Rural Development, SAWA, Samakithor/ PARTAGE, ACLEDA, Vaddhanak, Oxfam Quebec, World Education, ANS, CARE International, CCRD, CIAP, MAEDA, PADEK, LWS, Samadi, Samakithor, PADEK, Veterans International, RADE, Santesena, AIT, IRRI and the Maharishi Vedic University.

 

4. Activities: Irrigation, agricultural extension and rice seed multiplication, rural domestic water supply, credit, and stimulation of rural micro-enterprise.

 

5. Location

    PRASAC 1: Kompong Cham and Kompong Chhnang provinces

    PRASAC 2: Takeo and Kompong Speu provinces

    PRASAC 3: Prey Veng and Svay Rieng provinces

 

 

II.                Activities Related to Mekong

 

Irrigation and agricultural extension in some provinces around the Tonle Sap Lake and Lower Mekong River.

 

 

III.             Contact Details

 

- Contact person

: Mansrid Staab, TA Coordinator

- Technical Coordination   Office of the EU

: Pierre Van Roosbroeck – PRASAC Project Coordinator (015 916 112)

- Address

: #1, St. 21, Tonle Bassac, Phnom Penh

- Fax/Phone 

: (855) 23 426 997/ 23 366 876, 426 997, 360877-8

- E-mail

: prasac2@bigpond.com.kh