{"id":317,"date":"2021-09-22T09:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T09:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kbcsm.org\/?p=317"},"modified":"2021-12-22T05:31:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T05:31:32","slug":"update-information-activities-christian-social-service-and-development-department-cssdd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"ACT-Joint project story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACT-Joint project story<\/p>\n<p>The project aim is to enhance the resilience of 18 vulnerable partner communities through mutually<\/p>\n<p>supportive activities implemented by Karen Baptist Convention (KBC)<\/p>\n<p>in three townships (Kyainseikgyi, Hlaingbwe and Thandaunggyi) of Kayin State in<\/p>\n<p>south-eastern Myanmar. The project works together with partner communities to improve<\/p>\n<p>livelihoods according to communities\u2019 self-identified priorities, taking into account the impacts of<\/p>\n<p>climate change through the introduction of new skills and technology. Through a tailored training<\/p>\n<p>programme oriented to overcome knowledge gaps, communities will acquire decision making<\/p>\n<p>capacities in terms of endogenous development and technical skills on sustainable livelihoods<\/p>\n<p>through the adoption of Good Agricultural Practices in the framework of Climate Smart Agricultural<\/p>\n<p>strategies. Livelihoods will also be strengthened through a market-based approach that will consider<\/p>\n<p>not only a formal market study and identification of possible value chains, but especially facilitate<\/p>\n<p>linkages with economic actors. In a region where decades of conflict have affected the life of<\/p>\n<p>thousands of people and disrupted community interactions, the project will contribute to the<\/p>\n<p>reconstruction of social cohesion through training and facilitating individuals to take an active role in<\/p>\n<p>community development through active involvement in community action groups such as women\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>groups or village development committees.<\/p>\n<p>The project has 2 main objectives which are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resilient livelihoods<\/li>\n<li>Capacity Building and coordination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2021 planned activities such as agricultural activities, vocational skills training,<\/p>\n<p>demonstration plot, dissemination of GAP (10 out of 18 villages) and VDC training and<\/p>\n<p>revolving rice bank have accomplished. Video documentation, monitoring and staff<\/p>\n<p>capacity building training are in progress. Support Contingency fund to community,<\/p>\n<p>youth consultation, annual review exit strategy and dissemination of GAP (8 villages) are<\/p>\n<p>remaining activities to be implementing in upcoming months. Market development<\/p>\n<p>activities had cancelled and food security activities such as revolving rice bank had to be<\/p>\n<p>implemented due to community needs. Wide spreading Wide spreading of COVID-19 third wave affected the community livelihoods and the implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACT-Joint project story The project aim is to enhance the resilience of 18 vulnerable partner communities through mutually supportive activities implemented by Karen Baptist Convention&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-social-service-and-development-department-cssdd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kbcsm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}