Southeast Asia Development Program is a US-registered non-governmental organization (NGO) that started its program in Cambodia in 1994. From the outset, it has been the goal of SADP to contribute to improving the livelihoods of communities and peoples in Cambodia. Our focus has always been on the sustainable management of natural resources, women’s empowerment, increasing the authority of women in community decision making, providing scholarships for students from underprivileged families and the development of indigenous communities.
SADP’s first project focused on supporting a savings group in Prey Veng, a province in the northeast of the country, by helping poor families raise capital for development. SADP then expanded its program to other provinces by supporting local partners with their community development efforts. Later, with the agreement of the Royal Government of Cambodia, through the Ministry of Rural Development, SADP established innovative strategies to effectively enhance the living standards of people in provinces such as in Preah Vihear, Kampong Thom, Pursat, Kampong Chhnang, Takeo and Kampot and successfully implemented the “Cooperation for Development” project.
Following consultation with the McKnight Foundation in 2012, it was agreed that SADP would broaden its focus by becoming the intermediary funder in Cambodia for the Foundation. Consequently, SADP commenced developing the systems, processes, and procedures necessary to become a locally-based donor organization. In 2013, the McKnight Foundation handed over the responsibility for monitoring, evaluating and the capacity building for all of its Cambodian grantees to SADP. Extensive consultation was also undertaken to enable SADP to develop its own grant-making program with the intention that existing McKnight Foundation grant agreements with local partners would transition to SADP as the agreements expired. By the end of 2015, all partners had transitioned to SADP and we had become the intermediary funder in Cambodia for the McKnight Foundation.
After Macknight Foundation phased out from Southeast Asian that made SADP revised new strategy plan which have maintain three roles; grant making and contracting, capacity strengthening, collaboration and facilitation. SADP believes that by ensuring our values, Working Collectively, Respect, Accountability, Honesty, Equity and Willingness to Learn, are incorporated into everything we do we will achieve our Vision and Mission. Our focus continues to be on achieving inclusive equitable sustainable socioeconomic development through grounded grassroots approaches at the community level and with our partners we remain committed to contributing to the achievement of equal opportunity, equality before the law and social justice in Cambodia and the region.
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