This Strategic Plan is intended to focus the work of the CHO to chair in Children and community engagement over the coming three year period. While this is the first Strategic Plan of the CHO oversee, it has been produced by the experiences of the staff and BOD. It builds on the work to supporting vulnerable and poor children and their communities, and on our knowledge and experiences on education, advocacy, community development and social support, resilience and applied to practice.

Whereas preside over activities will tutor, policy and advocacy and programmatic development and quality assurance, our overarching goal is to achieve better outcomes for children and poor family. We believe that the mechanism of community engagement offers great potential for accomplishing this objective. Children and family will not be mere spectators in this process. As state at “Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, enjoins us to recognize and promote the concept of children as active agents in their lives…[t]he cost of not doing so will likely come back to haunt us as a civil society and a golden opportunity to move towards a fuller and more inclusive wisdom will have been missed.”

To effectively implement this Strategic Plan additional resources are required. We are currently seeking support to deliver this ground-breaking programme of work from others also interested in the task of helping children and poor families in need of support to overcome the difficulties they face and to develop to their fullest potential. I have no doubt that the injection of funds along with the professionalism of our excellent staff and the commitment and support from all our partners and our colleagues will ensure the effective implementation of this 3 years Plan.

Phong Socheath
CHO-Executive Director
January 2010

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