“Food and Nutrition Security Project” in Kampong Chhnang province which aimed to improve the living condition of people in the community has completed most of its activities in March 2021. Prior to its completion, in order to see the changes through this project, FIDR conducted the project endline survey in cooperation with local authorities.

The total number of expected respondents for this survey were nearly 1,300, so we hired 17 farmers from the project target area to be the surveyors and provided the training to them in order to introduce our questionnaire and strengthen their capacity. What we tried hard the most is to encouraged them to obtain accurate and true data. During the survey, they shared with us that they had difficulties such as how to make smooth communication with respondents to get their answers. In fact, some of them received the unwelcome attitude from respondents.

In order to overcome these difficulties, they made high commitment to improve themselves through conducting the self-reflection as well as team reflection. On the final day of survey, surveyors shared that it was a good oppounity that they could learn how to make the effective communication for obtaining the true and accurate answer. Besides, they also said that they learned how to cooperate with each other among the team to overcome the difficulties.

As the result, the project endline survey was successfully completed through the strong cooperation between FIDR and local authorities, and high commitment from our surveyors. The data obtained through this endline survey will be utilized for the project final evaluation which has been postponed since March due to the COVID-19. Once the situation gets better, we hope that we can reflect the project based on this data and extract the lesson learnt for our future project.