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ADI Project Objectives

1. To increase participants’ awareness and understanding regarding how poverty and global development issues impact Cambodia.

2. To develop participants’ skills in using basic models of small-scale action research to analyze problems or changing conditions and to build capacity for the empowerment of the communities with which they work.

3. To improve participants’ critical thinking, reading, writing, and presentation skills to more effectively contribute to policy planning and debate.

ADI Courses 

In current project phase (2006-2008) the ADI project offers three courses: the popular basic course for NGO managers, the advance course for past participants and development specialists, and the community level course for field workers. In support of these core activities ADI organizes Issue Briefing Workshops at national and provincial levels, and widely disseminates its training materials and research reports. 

Basic Course

The four-week Basic Course launched in 1999 is divided into two-week parts with a month interval given to conduct course break research assignments. Part One focuses on conducting a small-scale research study on a particular development issue. This entails thinking through the research process and developing the research design. More specifically, it involves formulating the problem statement, research objectives, key questions and research methods. Field work is normally conducted for two and a half days in rural villages with survey questionnaires, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. Upon return from the field the participants tabulate survey data and write up their qualitative interviews. They then began to analyze the data under several major headings. A preliminary draft of the report is completed before the end of Part One.

Part Two of the basic courses examines key development issues. These include globalization, poverty, environment, trade, the role of international agencies such as the IMF, World Bank, and WTO, the performance of the Cambodian economy, and NGO challenges and responses. While these topics are diverse the ADI team points out how they are interrelated. An overriding aim of Part Two is to enhance the participants’ understanding of the links between global development and their day to day work in Cambodia.

The key reference text for the basic course is:

Conducting a Small Research Study: Ten Steps to Analysis. 2nd Edition, 2006  English (PDF 3.52 MB) | Khmer (PDF 2.15 MB)

Since 1999 over 350 NGO managers have completed the ADI basic course. In late 2004 ADI published learning experiences of selected course participants.

Becoming Development Analysts: Stories from Participants of the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia's Analysing Development Issues Course English (PDF 802 KB) | Khmer (PDF 1.5 MB)

2008 Schedule for the Basic Course for NGO managers (Round 19)

Part One: September 1 – 13, 2008
Part Two: October 13 – 25, 2008

Download Brochure and Application: (English 267 KB)| (Khmer version will come soon)

Advance Course

A key objective of the advance course introduced in 2004 is to further develop the capacity of past participants in critical thinking and the analysis of development issues. Building on the knowledge and skills acquired in the basic ADI course, the advance course further explores in a more in-depth and comprehensive manner the links between local experiences and broader development trends. Within the context of the theme analyzed, the advance course enhances the capacity of past participants to undertake qualitative and quantitative research, enabling them to appreciate and understand more insightfully the consequences of a particular development issue on the lives of ordinary villagers. The advance course likewise runs for four-weeks with one-week blocks of time allocated for research design, field research, data analysis, and repot writing.   

In 2008 ADI will conduct an advance course on Older Persons and HIV/AIDS.

Particpants have been selected and confirmed for the upcoming Round 4 of the Advance Course for Past Participants and Development Specialists. The course schedule is as follows:

Part One: May 18 – 31, 2008
Part Two: June 6 – 12, 2008
Part Three: August 10 - 16, 2008   

Community Level Course

The three-week community level course piloted in 2006 begins with a two-week block followed by a third week convened after a two month interval. The first week of the course comprises the foundation module taught in a classroom setting. Topics discussed in this module include development practice and social change, understanding the meaning of development, rights-based approach to development, grassroots advocacy, and participatory action research (PAR). The second week involves practical application of the PAR approach in village communities where some of the participants work. During the third week all participants return to the village sites of the field research to reflect on the progress of community action plans and to assist the villagers in revising their plans accordingly. In the interval between the second and third weeks the participants are assigned to undertake PAR activities in their own program areas.

In 2006 ADI conducted two community level courses with NGO field workers. A third community level course was conductedin 2007 for field workers in the provinces of Rattanakiri, Mondulkiri, and Stung Treng. 

DDocumentation of Participatory Action Research Undertaken in First Three Community Level Courses  

Local People Challenge Common Issues Affecting Their Communities: Results of the First Community Level Course, October 2006 Joint English & Khmer (PDF 4.13 MB)

Mobilizing People to Respond to Emerging Community Issues: Results of the Second Community Level Course, February 2006 Joint English & Khmer (PDF 5.29 MB)

Mobilizing our Communities to Conserve Natural Resources : Results of the Third Community Level Course, April 2008 Joint English & Khmer (PDF 3.60 MB)

For more information on upcoming ADI course contact the ADI coordinator:
Email: adi@ccc-cambodia.org
Tel: (855-23) 214153 or (855) 12 480068
House #9-11, Street 476, Toul Tompoung II, Chamkarmorn, Phnom Penh   

ADI Research Studies

2007 Research Studies

	Land Titling and Poverty Reduction: A Study of Two Sangkat in Prey Nup District, Sihanoukville Municipality (Revised Version), November 2007 English
	Understanding Social Capital in Response to Floods and Droughts: A Study of Five Villages in Two Ecological Zones of Kompong Thom Province, August 2007 English | Khmer

2006 Research Studies

	Growing Old in the Former Khmer Rouge Stronghold of Pailin, November 2006 English | Khmer
	The Challenge of Living with Disability in Rural Cambodia: A Study of Mobility Impaired People in the Social Setting of Prey Veng District, Prey Veng Province, March 2006 English|Khmer

2005 Research Studies

	Impact of the Garment Industry on Rural Livelihoods: Lessons from Prey Veng Garment Workers and Rural Households, October 2005 English|Khmer
	Domestic Violence in a Rapidly Growing Border Settlement: A Study of Two Villages in Poipet Commune, Banteay Meanchey Province, May 2005 English|Khmer

2004 Research Studies

	Upholding Indigenous Access to Natural Resources in Northeast Cambodia, December 2004 English only
	Indigenous Response to Depletion in Natural Resources: A Study of Two Stieng Villages in Snoul District, Kratie Province, September 2004 English|Khmer
	Understanding Drug Use as a Social Issue: A View from Three Villages on the Outskirts of Battambang Town, April 2004 English|Khmer
	Experiences of Commune Councils in Promoting Participatory Local Governance: Case Studies from Five Communes, March 2004 English|Khmer

2003 Research Studies

Labor Migration to Thailand and the Thai-Cambodian Border: Recent Trends in Four Villages of Battambang Province, December 2003 English|Khmer

2002 Research Studies

The Impact of Tourism Industry in Siem Reap on the People Who Live in Angkor Park, December 2002 English|Khmer

2001 Research Studies

Small-Scale Land Distribution in Cambodia: Lessons from Three Case Studies, November 2001 English only

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