In Cambodia, two good practices were selected:
1. More Than Information: Young People Spread Social Solidarity, Contemplation, & Compassion in Cambodia presents the efforts of Save the Children Australia and four local non-governmental organizations to provide quality community-based sexual and reproductive health education to vulnerable young people in rural areas of Cambodia.
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Phon Sophorn and 40 of his monks have received training on disseminating information on HIVAIDS from Save the Children Australia
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The practice was selected because:
- They used evaluation results to improve the quality and effectiveness of their education program by increasing the capacity and professionalism of the educators.
- Implementers demonstrated innovation in thinking outside of the peer education box. Rather than persisting with a concept which was not working, they changed the concept, transforming the one-time peer education project into a professional community education project using young educators.
- The project developed an innovative system for providing community based education the young people voluntarily organized their own support groups, small groups convened for the express purpose of receiving sexual and reproductive health education.
- The concepts, methods and processes for developing this style of youth-led community based education are replicable.
2. Staying Out of Trouble in the First Place: Media-based Health Education in Cambodia presents the work of the Cambodia Health Education Media Services to provide sexual and reproductive health information through an interactive multimedia program, with radio as its focal point.
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Poster promoting the radio soap opera (translated version)
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The practice was selected because:
- It effectively combines the use of a popular radio programme, including a serial drama, with print media to provide health information to its regular audience of about 1.2 million.
- The project regularly gathers feedback and input from its audience to ensure that it effectively addresses the issues and concerns of greatest importance to contemporary Cambodian youth.
- It has been innovative in adapting the traditional use of focus groups to garner audience feedback to the Cambodian environment, by developing stable, rather than one-time, focus groups of listeners and providing them with radios, batteries and some training to enable them to listen and provide better feedback. The project has also expanded the roles the members of the groups can play.
- The project itself represents a replication of work done in other countries; and its style has already been replicated within Cambodia itself. Other aspects of the project are also readily replicable. The project has made important steps towards sustainability by developing multiple funding sources, securing funding through 2008, and developing some income generating services.
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