MoSVY and the Family Care First project organized a monitoring visit in Battambang Province from April 24-27,2023. The visit aimed to assess FCF sub-grant partners’ progress with the implementation of projects in Battambang, and identify and discuss challenges and a way forward. Eight representatives from MoSVY participated in the visit, namely H.E Touch Channy, Director General Department of Social Service Department, H.E Yeab Malyno, Director General Department of Social Policy, Mr. Phi No, Director of Child Protection Department and colleagues, and H.E Phavann Sakkeuat, Deputy Director of Provincial of DoSVY, and FCF team and FCF partners including Holt International Cambodia, CCT and CFI.
CCT manages a project for RCI Care leavers who presented an impressive array of awareness raising activities undertaken in communities and on-line, as well as the critically important peer support activities conducted on a weekly basis. CFI presented the successes and challenges of engaging RCIs to transition and/or close and reunite children with their biological families. RCI transition is a complex matter as it involves many stakeholders who all need to understand why transition is necessary and how it benefits the children. MoSVY indicated its appreciation for the efforts and invited CFI to reach out in case support is needed. Finally, Holt presented progress with foster care and kinship care project. MoSVY was able to visit a family who has provided safe family-based care for a little boy for the past three years. Holt mentioned that permanency planning, e.g. domestic adoption, is a very complex and cumbersome process. MoSVY was pleased to share with the participants that under its leadership Holt and other partners were working on improving guidance on domestic adoption.
We would like to thank MoSVY for the recommendations and appreciation expressed during the visit, and we are grateful to our partners for the time and energy invested in making the MoSVY jont monitoring visit a success.