Location: Phnom Penh – Cambodia
Language: Cambodian
Duration: 00:08:25
Source: A24
Restrictions: A24 Clients
Dateline: 02-02-2022
Storyline:
RECOFTC, which operates in four provinces, Kampong Thom, Preah Vihear, Kratie, and Stung Treng.” launched a partnership project in the forestry and fisheries sector funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Sida) entitled “Community Forestry Credit”. The new project aims to support community forestry to ensure the sustainable management of forests and it grants loans with interest to residents to use in agricultural activities such as purchasing fertilizers and feeding chickens and ducks without the need to mortgage their property, and about a quarter of those interests is allocated to support efforts to preserve community forests.
Shot list:
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Kao Vutha – Provincial Community Forestry Partnership Coordinator:
” Community Forestry Credit is a new project organized by RECOFTC. The organization has a partnership project in the forestry and fisheries sector with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swedish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Sida). RECOFTC operates in four provinces, Kampong Thom, Preah Vihear, Kratie, and Stung Treng. “
-(SOUNDBITE) Mr. Kao Vutha – Provincial Community Forestry Partnership Coordinator-:
“RECOFTC’s goal is to support community forestry to ensure their sustainable forest management, with ROCOFTC raising this forest credit to raise interest from borrowers as capital for forest conservation.”
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Seang Vinh – Secretary of Forest Community:
“The forest community uses the money as a loan, lending money to people to engage in activities such as feeding pigs, buying fertilizer for their farm, feeding chickens and ducks. “
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Kao Vutha – Provincial Community Forestry Partnership Coordinator:
“When people borrow money from a community forestry credit, they are obliged to pay interest, so community forestry credit takes away one of fourth of that interest as capital for conservation work.”
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Kao Vutha – Provincial Community Forestry Partnership Coordinator:
“The first part is to conserve the community forest, which includes activities such as forest patrols, to build signage, tree planting, build a road to prevent the forest from fire, and for arrange community meetings. “
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Seang Vinh – Secretary of Forest Community:
” 35% of the interest rate is for community forest conservation to prevent perpetrators from deforestation. In patrolling the forest, the committee and the people work together. And the cost of patrolling is sometimes $ 2.5 for 1 person, sometimes $ 2.5 for 2 people sharing petroleum and buying food for patrols. “
-(SOUNDBITE) Mr. Kao Vutha Provincial Community Forestry Partnership Coordinator:
” The second part is for raising capital with the same percentage as for conservation work. The third part is the salary of the Community Forestry Credit Committee. And the fourth part is for the administrative affairs of Community Forestry Credit.”
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Seang Vinh – Secretary of Forest Community:
” Since Community Forestry Credit stepped into our community, people seem to have become more aware of forest protection, and people have found it easier to make a living by borrowing from community forestry credit without having to deposit their land tenure. He started to protect the community forest because the community forest has provided them with a lot of benefits. And we have community forest credit because of our forest.”
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Kao Vutha – Provincial Community Forestry Partnership Coordinator:
” People are happy when their interest gives benefits to their community forest. In addition, besides working on their farm, they also can take advantage of the forest. “
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Seang Vinh – Secretary of Forest Community:
“He harvests from the forest, such as wild mushrooms, wild fruits, and medicinal plants.”
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Kao Vutha (Provincial Community Forestry Partnership Coordinator):
“So those are the benefits that they got from the community forest. “
– (SOUNDBITE) Mr. Kao Vutha – Provincial Community Forestry Partnership Coordinator:
” RECOFTC has been operating in Kampong Thom since 2015, when it starts there are only five communities were assisted, and the growth of these five communities, RECOFTC has expanded to other communities.”
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