Welthungerhilfe has been active in Cambodia since 2003, with a focus on strengthening agriculture, improving food security, and promoting human rights. WHH has a longstanding experience of working with rural communities and pursues an integrated partner-approach, including both rights-based and social objectives: enabling the rural poor, particularly ethnic minority communities to secure their livelihoods and address the root causes of hunger and poverty through own efforts. The Cambodia programme was combined under Myanmar in 2018.

WHH’s implementing partner for this project is a local NGO, Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP). NTFP was founded in 1996 and it’s vision is for the people of Cambodia, especially indigenous people, to have improved livelihoods in a conducive environment. NTFP has extensive local knowledge and access to indigenous communities and has played a critical role in supporting indigenous people to secure their rights to land and natural resources.

NTFP has four main programmes –

1. Natural resource management.
2. Community and livelihood development.
3. Child rights and education (including non-formal education).
4. Conservation and bio-diversity.

NTFP operates in three provinces in northern Cambodia: Ratanakiri, Stung Treng and Preah Vihear.

The partnership between WHH and NTFP was established in April 2022, when the current project co-financed by BMZ, was handed over to NTFP.

The project ‘Support indigenous communities in Ratanakri to secure their right to land and contribute to improved FNS’ has been implemented since 1 October 2020 and will end 30 April 2024.

The final evaluation will evaluate progress and achievements of the project towards its expected outcomes and outputs, particularly in terms of the project's relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability. The final evaluation will also review the project’s overall approach, the specific implementation methodologies and organizational set up, and consider possible short comings and gaps.