Strategy

The Indigenous Communities have knowledge, capacity, solidarity and a sense of initiative and ownership in order to manage their natural resources to improve their economic, social and cultural affairs with effectiveness and sustainability through community organizations and development managed and directed by those community organizations.

To support Indigenous People Networks (IPN) through developing and strengthening to improve the capacity of their member organizations/groups (IPOs) in contributing the protection of their natural and traditional resources rights.

     Team work.

     Mutual Respect.

     Empowerment Approach.

     Indigenous People’s rights.

     Honesty and Integrity.

     The role of our NGO in civil society.

To support the development of Indigenous People Organizations in diversify and intensify the advocacy approach to address their rights to land and natural resources from grass-roots to national levels and interacting international level by community initiative and ownership.

To support the village-level indigenous organization formation through supporting the traditional identity strengthening through the practice empowerment for protection their rights to land with formulation development priorities to legal entity recognition and communal land registered.

To strengthen partnership of all community networks at commune, district and provincial levels through assisting the community education and empowerment to leads to the formation of peoples representatives and advocacy organizations at grassroots.

5.3 Strategic Objective-Three
To emerge community networks at national level; assist in community education and empowerment work which leads to the formation of people representative and advocacy organizations from grassroots to national levels and interacting with international level.

To support indigenous people organizations/groups/networks livelihood integration concepts of indigenous communities’ economic development through exploring in learning the best practices for diversify and intensify of traditional agriculture, small enterprises, and food security by cooperation and collaboration with government and NGOs.

To consolidate the organizational and human resources development of ICSO and IPOs through capacity empowerment on the best practice approaches of good governance for transparency and accountibility manner.

To improve the partnership cooperation and collaboration with relevant government institutions, donor agencies, NGOs coalitions, private sectors and Indigenous Communities from the grass-roots to national and interacting international levels in order to promote the indigenous communities’ Economic, Social and Culture rights through influent the policies, good governance and law enforcement.

In 2012, this continuing program will be named ”Community Led-Development Program (CLDP)” as the presently 2011 called Community Empowerment Project (CEP).  As in 2007-2009 Strategic Plan we called “National Capacity Building Unit” for the purpose of support Ratanakiri program and staff capacity building need while the new ICSO established in 2007 but in term of the ICSO Ratanakiri program capacity and ability were improved we set this for CEP. Thus, year 2012, we need to integrate the two projects of Phnom Penh based  are CEP and another presently project called Community Media Project (CMP) that working with Community Media Advisory Groups and Community Media Volunteers and Community groups on Promoting Indigenous Voice.  This CLDP is supporting for the groups of Indigenous Active Members (IRAM), Indigenous People Working Groups (IPWG), Indigenous Media Advisory Group (IMAG) in order to support their Indigenous Community Leaders and Indigenous Community Peoples in the northeast provinces with connection to Ratanakiri and Mundulkiri ICSO provincial support programs.

The continuation for the Community Rights Empowerment Program. In 2007-2009 Strategic Plan was the capacity development approach for different types of indigenous people networks through the 8 Community Organizing Training manuals in the 4 districts target areas. The networks were, Indigenous Women Networks, Community Organizing Networks, Village Organizing Networks, Community Media Networks and Natural Resource Management Networks. BUT, from 2010-2012, all these different networks are integrated on how could be strengthened to be Indigenous People Organization (IPOs). We mainly established the district offices to be closed to communities but this year, we shifted ICSO district offices and support to set up the networks district offices been established in O Yadav for the first priority in order to support each district IPOs/Working Groups, included the existing 33 indigenous legal entity organizations been registered and recognized by government (MoRD and MoI) for how could we support and strengthen for their IPO management capacity needed for their Community-Led Development with ICSO exit strategies in 2013-2015. It is included as well for all IP Saving groups and Pichreada district in Ratanakiri and Mundulkiri provinces and other self-created saving groups by IP communities other districts of Ratanakiri province. This will also included the groups of Promoting Indigenous Voice for integrated program.

This program is a pilot program included one district in Ratanakiri as well, in late 2009 to focus on community economic development initiative and gender mainstreaming approach in Mundulkiri, Pichreada district. All groups are IPOs as well with connection the Ratanakiri and other provinces networks for their rights to land and natural resources to improve livelihood, in creation for Saving Groups for formulation the Community Working Team streghtening for Associations formulation and establishment the Community Bank for community self-determination and Self-management.