Area Development Programmes
An Area Development Programme (ADP) is an integrated, multi-sector programming model comprising a number of projects, often with multiple funding sources, working within a defined geographic area toward a common program goal. World Vision’s ADP’s typically have a 10-15 year life, depending on the pace of change and capacities of local partners to sustain and expand improvements in quality of life.
World Vision’s approach to area development programming is community based, aims to maximize sustainability and is especially focused on the needs of vulnerable children.
Building strong partners
Powerful and sustainable transformation starts with relationships. It involves building strong partnerships with communities as they strive to overcome difficulties and to take care of themselves and their families. World Vision’s long-term ADPs include our staff working side-by-side with community members to understand the causes of poverty, to identify existing strengths and capacities that can be built upon, and to find the solutions that would enable these communities to achieve positive outcomes such as improved health and nutrition, better education, access to water for consumption and production, and expanded income generation while living in peace and with justice.
Empowering Communities
Through ADPs, World Vision works with children and their families to build their capacity to address their own specific, priority concerns. Long-lasting transformation results from community development that includes:
Community training and enhancing resources to improve harvests, diversify crops, keep livestock healthy and maintain clean water supplies
Health interventions such as child immunizations, maternal health and nutrition education and improvement of local health services
Educational activities including partnering with government to ensure that children in targeted areas complete primary education
Contributing to the elimination of stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with HIV and AIDS, and orphans and vulnerable children
Contributing to the elimination of violence against children through transforming the breakdown of morality, family values and sense of community
Empowering communities to live life with peace and justice
Experience has taught us that human transformation is promoted by strategic approaches that integrate gender issues, economic justice, spirituality, human rights and the environment.
Sponsorship Makes a Difference
More than 50,000 Cambodian children are sponsored in World Vision’s program areas. International support through child sponsorship provides invaluable resources for community development. Child sponsorship is one way for international donors to contribute to community transformation. When a donor sponsors a single child, a monthly amount is pledged to assist the child, his/her family and community through community-based development activities that benefit everyone in need.
How does sponsorship benefit the community?
Sponsored children are based in geographic areas where the need to improve child well-being and poverty reduction is the greatest. These are the same areas where the ADPs are established. Through funds from child sponsorship, a long-term community development strategy is developed and implemented. Components of the development program may include working for better health and nutrition, food and water security, microfinance, leadership training, HIV and AIDs elimination, access to education, and ensuring that the children’s physical well-being are cared for as well as spiritual support from community members.
When I Grow Up...
Channy Khut is a smart and lively 16 year-old girl who dreams of one day
becoming a community development worker.
Channy is living with her parents and a younger sister in Kompong Speu
province. Channy's family relies on farming for their income, however the rice
yield from the farming is not enough to support the family. To supplement the
family's income, Channy's mother, Sok Rouen works as a labourer to carry soil
in a nearby village, while Channy's father, Kiev Seng sells charcoal far away
from home.
Channy is currently studying in grade 11. She is one
of the outstanding students in her class. Her favorite subject is mathematic.
Because of financial difficulties at home, Channy's mother wanted her to quit
school and get a job as a factory worker in a nearby village. World Vision's
sponsorship program enables Channy to continue her study.
" We live in a small wooden house, my parent are all very busy with the farming
and other supplementary works. So, I have to help them out at home.
Everyday, I wake up at 4:30 AM to cook rice to eat at school, gathering cow
dung, and filled water in the jars for daily use. By 6:00 AM, I have to be
ready for school. My school is about 8km away from my house, it takes me about
one hour riding with my old bicycle. I spent 8 hours at school. After coming
home from school, I help my mother cook dinner, stabling the two cows, feed my
piglet, which was given by World Vision, and give unhusked rice to my chickens.
Every weekend, I spent my time to lead and play with other children in the
child club center. I really enjoy playing with other children in my community.
I always tell them stories, draw pictures, and make fun with them.
I began to be a sponsored child when I was 10 years old, when some staff
members came to my house and took some pictures of me and asked some basic
questions. I was very happy to know that I would be sponsored.
Child sponsorship paid for my uniform and school materials. For my family and community, we have received a shallow open well in my house, compost pit and piglet. My United States sponsor has sent me many letters and post cards. Their words have brought me joy and courage. I kept all the letter and post cards I received properly, so that I can read it again when I feel sad. I wish to see my sponsor face to face one day, I really want to meet and give thanks for their continued support to me.
When I grow up,
I want to work as a community development worker. I think I understand and know
a lot more about the situation of people living in poverty, because I also have
experience with that before. I want to help my community, my family and support
my sister to study further. I want to bring smiles to the children in my
community.
World Vision gave an opportunity to me, a poor child who otherwise could not
have afforded an education. If I didn't have World Vision, I would have quit my
study to work for a sewing factory like the other girls in my village already.
Thank you to World Vision sponsors for the supports you have provided to me, my
family and the community."
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Vision is an international Christian relief and development organisation
working to promote the well-being of all people - especially children. World
Vision seeks to serve people who are poor worldwide, regardless of race,
religion, or ethnic origin.
Channy is currently studying in grade 11. She is one
of the outstanding students in her class. Her favorite subject is mathematic.
Because of financial difficulties at home, Channy's mother wanted her to quit
school and get a job as a factory worker in a nearby village. World Vision's
sponsorship program enables Channy to continue her study.
When I grow up,
I want to work as a community development worker. I think I understand and know
a lot more about the situation of people living in poverty, because I also have
experience with that before. I want to help my community, my family and support
my sister to study further. I want to bring smiles to the children in my
community.
