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Final WISH Pond Workshop Report
Results from WISH Pond Enterprises for Cambodian households and
smallholders project January 14th, 2016 at Sekong Star Hotel, Stung Treng Province
Picture 1: Participants farmers and partners of WISH pond project
Background and Purpose
The final WISH Pond workshop took place in Stung Treng Province on January 14th
, 2016. The
WISH Project in 2015 focused mainly on better understanding WISH Pond technologies and
who it empowers through regular field monitoring and ensuring all farmers record their daily
reports, implementing small scale aquaculture and home gardening techniques, providing
supplementary feeds and best management practices to key project farmers and continuing to
strengthen Village Enterprise Networks (VEN) in the project area and reporting on progress. The
Wish Pond project also investigated networking opportunities, changes in gender perspectives,
innovations and community empowerment. The outputs from above activities contributed to the
WISH Ponds project which was designed to 1)- produce large quantities of fish for both family
consumption and income generation, with the additional benefit of water storage for home
gardens, and 2)- provide an enterprise and business development support network, known as
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Village Enterprise Network (VEN) through franchising, intended to support homestead adopters
and the wider scaling of the WISH pond technology.
Workshop Objectives
Emerging results from the WISH pond project was collected, analyzed and documented by
WISH Pond Project’s partners, WorldFish, CEPA, and Stung Treng provincial FIAC and
farmers. The main objectives of this workshop held on January 14, 2016 were:
To provide an opportunity for the WISH pond participants and stakeholders to share their
experiences, progress and outcomes of carrying out the WISH pond process over the
project life span (November 2013 to 2015)
To discuss the end of project and explore future development strategy for communities
and partners (focusing on link to future project and networks)
Participants
WISH Pond’s farmers and relevant stakeholders were invited to participate in this workshop in
order to share knowledge, their experiences, key lessons and discuss the end of project and
explore future development strategy related to WISH technologies and WISH water using. The
list of participants is shown in Annex 1.
Workshop process & outcomes
At the beginning of the workshop, Mrs. Chea Seila presented the purpose, objectives, and the
agenda for this workshop as in Annex 2. Then, Dr. Julie Tsatsaros, CRP AAS Research Initiative
Leader, AAS gave a short warm welcome and opening remarks. Then Mr. Ouch Vibol CEPA,
facilitated a session on workshop participant’s expectations from the workshop. There were four
main categories of participant’s expectations. These were:1), To have an opportunity to sharing
experience and knowledge 2), More understanding in techniques for feeding and breeding 3),
Marketing of fish products 4), Diversifying their livelihoods.
No. Thematic participants’ expectations
1 Have opportunity to sharing experiences and knowledge
Better understanding of fish culture techniques in cement tanks
Share challenges and solutions in fish culture and WISH water utility
Opportunity to gain new experiences in fish culture
Opportunity to learn from village enterprise network (VEN) on fish culture and use of WISH water effectiveness
2 More understanding in techniques for feeding and breeding
Receive knowledge and lessons on good practices in fish culture in cement tanks
Get knowledge on fish breeding technique
3 Marketing of fish products
Challenges on selling fish products (competition with imported catfish from Vietnam)
Gathering solutions on marketing fish products
4 Diversifying their livelihoods
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Improve family living standards
Expand farms
Following a session of collecting participants’ expectations from the workshop, two
presentations on background of WISH pond and field observation and recommendations during
August to October 2015 from Mrs. Chea Seila and Mr. Mam Kosal presented.
Background of WISH pond (updated) Community and Partners engagement
Mrs. Chea Seila presented a background of the WISH Pond Project, including the history of the
project, scope of work, funding, partnerships, outputs and outcomes of the project.
Fish provides major source of nutritious food for daily diet of rural households. Unfortunately,
wild fish declined because of overfishing, exploitation and dam development along the rivers.
Therefore, aquaculture provides good opportunities to meet increased demands for fish. To
sustain this requirement, a significant increase in total aquaculture production in needed and this
will require different implementation strategies across the sector that targets both small and
large-scale aquaculture development.
In 2011, a pilot project of small scale aquaculture (SSA)—water and fish pond (WISH) was
initiated in Kamphon village, Stung Treng province funded by Wetlands Alliance Programme
(WAP)/SIDA. 15 farmers were adopted techniques of raising fish in different types of ponds—
cement tanks and plastic ponds (below ground and above grounded pond). The purpose of this
pilot was to explore ways to improve SSA by understanding costs and benefits by applying
community science as engage fish farmers to record daily feedings, number of fish death, yields
and roles and labors of both women and men farmers in maintaining fish ponds.
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Picture 2: Different WISH Pond designs
By the end of 2013, WorldFish implemented the ‘WISH Pond’ project with initial funds from
Fintrac/USAID through Feed the Future, Wetlands Alliance Program (WAP), CGIAR research
program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems, and Resources Legacy Fund. The project included
three partners – Cambodian Rural Development Team (CRDT), Culture and Environment
Preservation Association (CEPA) and Stung Treng Provincial Fisheries Administration
Cantonment (FiAC) with coverage of four villages, two communes/ Sangkat, and two districts/
Krung (Error! Reference source not found.) in Stung Treng province. The total target
household was 45. The USAID Funded Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation grant
essentially provides the ability to build the ponds and provide basic infrastructure to conduct an
assessment of this technology. The timeframe for this initiative was from December 2013 to the
end of December 2015 and included 50 ponds in the following villages (below). According to
WISH report (2014), the project was designed to:
work towards producing enough fish for family consumption, income generation and
providing food security including providing homestead water storage for home gardens
provide an enterprise and business development support network through franchising
which is intended to support, and profit by, homestead adopters and the wider scaling out
of WISH Pond technology.
While sub-thematic objectives focus on (WISH report, 2014):
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1) Improving and refining the technological know-how for a small number of villages (4) in
the project area to better understand core profitability of the WISH Pond technology (at
the household level) for long-term sustainability
2) Providing a gender analysis, including understanding if the technology ‘empowers’ target
groups (i.e. do women benefit?)
3) Improving our understanding of lessons learned and good practices while continuing to
engage existing (and new) local partners
4) Supporting and strengthening the existing village enterprise networks (VENs) to improve
fish farming techniques, testing and sharing new technologies and ideas, marketing and
bringing new products to markets
5) Investigate the business dynamics and profitability of the planned franchise concept for
scaling potential, by improving access of households to technical, financial and market
services and assess the on-going profitability of the franchise.
6) Looking at ways to incorporate pilot results into the CGIAR Aquatic Agricultural
Systems (AAS) strategic initiative for potential commercial scale out to other locations in
Cambodia
WISH Pond Technology – WISH ponds are intensive and small scale. Ponds are concrete tanks
(3m x 4m x 1.2m), and are stocked intensively with 800 fish per pond. The system concentrates
on farming African catfish (Clarias gariepinus)1. Farmers can invest in building one, 2 or 3
ponds (in a series) per household including peripherals to include a UV plastic translucent
shading frame.
Target beneficiary farmers and villages
Target villages Sangkat/ Commune
District Province Distance from the Stung
Treng market
# of population (CDB 2011)
# of farmers
Kamphun Kamphun Sesan Stung Treng
15 km 494 15
Banmai Kamphun Sesan Stung Treng
12 km 112 9
Koh Khondin Samaki Stung Treng
Stung Treng
13 km 153 18
Thmey Samaki Stung Treng
Stung Treng
10 km 196 3
Total 45 (# of farmers)
Table 1: Target areas and population
1 Exotic species but this fingerling species is available in the local Stung Treng hatchery
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Project framework Figure 1: WISH Project framework
Presentation: Field Notes on WISH pond (August to October 2015)
Mr. Mam Kosal presented the next session focusing on general observations of the Project
during his field work from August to October 2015. His recommendations to improve the WISH
ponds are below.
Observations Recommendations
- Some farmers are missing daily records Some
farmers said that they didn’t record when they
feed their fish as they are very busy
- Women with children can manage WISH pond
and feeding
- Quality of cement pond are different, some
ponds are broken
- Daily record book as designed is too complex
to record daily records
- Some farmers don’t use WISH water for
growing vegetable
- In Kamphon, two ponds were built at different
period by one wall. To save some cement, one
farmer built cement ponds by one wall that
have been broken after a few of growing cycles.
- The farmers should not build two ponds connected
by one wall if they built at different time. That
shall make new pond be leaked.
- The pond that is broken, it can be repaired
- Some unnecessary points in daily record book
should be deleted
- Balance of using pellets and natural feeds, using
much natural food causes water to have an odor
- Consider the size of fingerlings for growing;
sometimes farmers can take more risks to invest
for buying small fingerlings (fry fish) to grow as it
is cheaper than larger fingerlings. But these die,
spend more time for choosing and caring for fish,
spending more money to buying good pellets for
feed
• Farmers selection • Construction cost • Solar panels? • Partners • Trainings &
Workshops • Fingerlings • Pump machine (1) • water tank collector
(1) • feed machine • # of times there has
been monitoring and coaching of farmers
• # farmers adopting WISH ponds
• # of ponds built • # (Kg) of fish consumed • # ($) of fish sold • # (kg) of vegetable
consumed • # ($) of vegetables sold • # (m
2) plots grown for
vegetables (using water from WISH ponds)
• # of trainings and workshop conducted
• Knowledge gained • Gender: roles and
responsibilities in fish culture
• Gender in decision making to adopt the new technology
• Reduce pressure from wild fish catch
• Attitudes, knowledge and behavior changes from male farmers and women farmers adopting WISH technology and using water from the tanks for home-gardens
• Access to year-round fish and chemical free vegetables for home consumption and supplies to the market
• Collaboration for improving large quantity of fish production
• Gender empowerment (Livelihoods creation)
Inputs Immediate
Impacts (outputs)
Long-Term Impact
(Outcomes)
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After Kosal’s presentation there were a question, comments and answers include:
Questions Answers Comments from participants
- Related to daily record books,
could we separate feeding
columns into three columns
one for the morning, afternoon
and evening?
- Feeding should be one page only,
avoid many pages. It confuses.
- Agree, Feeding column shall be
split into three columns to be
easily seen track change of how
many times of feeding per day
and amount of feeds.
- A few farmers don’t grow
fish because of water was
leaked from the ponds. The
farmers who have broken
ponds, they are not willing
to repair the ponds because
they do not have money to
repair them and when they
had money, they spent
money for other purposes.
Or they are waiting for
supports from project
partners and WorldFish to
repair their ponds.
- Sometimes farmers are not
clear about supporting and
helping with the WISH
Ponds.
Timeline of changes for WISH pond project from 2011 to end of 2015
Picture 3: Group discussion on WISH Timeline (2011-2015)
Why timelines? Timeline is a method for capturing a series of events happened. Using timeline to frame
the discussion, so every participants could see the history of the WISH pond project and have ability to
analyze how relationship between events have occurred, draw conclusions of the history of changes,
and how those changes impact on individuals and community lives. By doing this exercise, Mrs. Chea
Seila asked participants to do brainstorming focusing on inputs, activities and outcomes based on
evidence and lessons farmers learned over the life of the WISH Pond Project. Key questions were used
to facilitate the discussion including: what are the changes that have occurred since 2011 (Outcomes)?
How did these changes happen? And what are the impacts of the changes on individuals/community
lives.
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Fish culture in 2011
Similar Different Reasons to adopt fish culture
- Attended training on Catfish culture in
plastic ponds facilitated by Stung Treng
Provincial Fisheries Administration
Cantonment (FiAC), funded by Wetlands
Alliance Program (WAP) and other
projects.
- Knew how to select location for digging the
plastic ponds: no trees nearby the ponds,
less shading, near farmer’s house, upland to
avoid floods but near the water sources
- Started by Fish culture in plastic pond (3m
X 4m)
- Grounded plastic pond (dig the land cover
plastic inside the pond)
- Above grounded plastic pond (look like pig
cage) and surrounded by wood and cover
plastic inside
- Didn’t use water from fish pond for home
gardens
- We didn’t know much about daily records
- Didn’t know how to treat fish when they
were sick
- Many fish die (high mortality rate)
- Didn’t know quality of the pellets
- Didn’t access to electricity
- Bought local fingerlings from Mr. Muth Va
Kamphon:
- Spent more money on pumping water
Koh Khondin & Thmey:
- Some farmers feed fish only pellets; three times
per day (morning, afternoon, and evening)
- Some feed fish with pellets and supplementary
feeds such as natural food can be found easier
during rainy season than in dry season
Banmai
- One farmer, Mrs. Chao Chantha, practiced fish
culture by learning from nearby village. First she
started with plastic pond by dug the land (1.5m X
2.5m) then covered plastic inside
- stocked 300 fingerling per pond
- Through observation, the grounded and above
ground plastic ponds were broken in a short
lifetime.
- Wild fish decreased day by day because of dam
constructions including Yali dam constructed on
mainstream of Sesan River, tributary of Mekong
River at Vietnam Cambodia border and illegal
fishings
- Reduce expenses to buy food from Market
- Have available food at home as come back from
work, feel tired and/or when they have guests or
relatives visiting at home; they could catch fish to
make food (faster as fish in the pond or like food
already in refrigerator)
- Diversify income from fish culture
- Saving time to fish in the river
Fish Culture in 2012
Similar Different Reasons to adopt fish culture
- Changed from plastic ponds to cement tanks
- No many shops selling pellets
- The knowledge in fish culture was enhanced
but still limited (observe fish during
feeding, change water, take sick fish to put
Kamphon
- During heavy floods, one pond was floated
because of after harvest fish, the tank’s owner
didn’t fill water up.
- Village population grew but fish population
decreased -- Difficult to catch wild fish because
of dams development on mainstream tributary
rivers, illegal fishing
- Reduce expenses to buy food from market
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in the salted water, spread lime stone to
surface of the pond for killing bacterial
growth)
- Using water from WISH tanks to grow
vegetables
- Fish products were easily sold
- Fingerlings were bought from Mr. Muth Va
- Fish price sold to consumer or fish sellers at
village was approximately 7,000 - 10,000 Khmer
Riel (KHR) per kilogram
Koh Khondin & Thmey
- Few farmers didn’t grow fish during that year
because they faced high mortality rate from
previous year and they had gone of capital to
invest in fish culture.
- Fish price sold to fish trader was approximately
6,500 - 7,000 KHR per kilogram
- Less amount of farmed fish was imported from
Vietnam
Banmai
- Know-how on fish culture was limited for
example farmers were not sure how to calculate
feeding rates
- Farmers fed fish only pellets for three times per
day (morning, noon and evening)
- Didn’t use water from cement tanks for growing
vegetables
- Fish price was approximately 7,000 - 10,000
KHR per kilogram
- Improved household incomes from amount of
fish culture sold.
- Food was available to cook for relatives or guests
to visit home
- Didn’t spend more time to catch fish to do other
tasks
- Life is easy as have fish available at home after
being tired from field work or when relatives visit
our homes
-
Fish Culture in 2013
Similar Different Reasons to adopt fish culture
- Oriented on fish culture in the cement pond
and use WISH pond’s water to growing
vegetables was introduced by NGOs and
FiAC staff
- Number of households adopted fish culture
in cement tanks (WISH) increased
- VEN used as a communication way to
report on progress and challenges in fish
culture to WISH pond partners.
- knowledge in fish culture enhanced
(observe during fish eating, change water
very often, know-how to fish treat fish—use
Koh Khondin and Thmey
- Fish was sold from 6,000 - 7,000 KHR per
kilogram
Banmai
- Know-how to use pellets and supplementary feed
- By the end of 2013, 9 families practiced fish
culture in the cement tanks
continue commitments to challenge in wild fish
declined, supply to market demands
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saline and limestone for curing fish disease)
- Number of vegetable gardens grown by
using WISH pond’s water
- Fish price was sold around 7,000 -10,000
KHR per kilogram at Kamphon and Banmai
Fish Culture in 2014 to 2015
- Know better how to record daily records on feeding, general observation after making face to face introductions from project staff
- Number of cycles and plots of vegetable gardens increased by using Wish water
- Thus profit gained from vegetable growing
- Know the value of Wish pond’s water
- Know how to treat fish sick by themselves
- Imports in fish and vegetables from Vietnam increased; this had a negative impact to local fish products.
- Price of Fish product went lower
- Some farmers delay in fish culture because price of fish products became lower, some are busy in rice cultivation, organizing Children’s wedding, don’t
have enough water in dry season, don’t have enough money to buy fingerlings
- Fly culture in Banmai Village did not work. From observation, chemical pesticides are often used to control weeds during rainy season and this impacted the
fly culture in Banmai village
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Outputs from stories sharing by WISH participants
Mrs. Chea Seila asked individual participants in workshop to identify one case story to share in
the workshop. Participants wrote down a title of their story on a card. Stories were collected and
a thematic analysis was done on the story titles. Four case stories were categorized for further
discussion including: 1) Fish disease and their treatments, 2) Using WISH pond’s water for
vegetable gardens, 3) Fish culture: High productivity and profitability, 4) strengthen and expand
fish farming. Participants were divided to four groups and each group took one topic (1-4) to
write down in more detail following the following outline:
- Title of story:
- Name of group’s participants
- Rational of story/ Introduction
- Results: evidence based, key actors in the story
- Lessons learned
Group 1 o Story title : Fish disease and their treatments
o Group members: Mr. Muth Va 011 74 58 63
Mr. Mao Sareth 012 35 62 40
Mrs. Van Dymom 088 35 69 441
Miss. Bun Lomchouly 088 34 99 000
Mrs. Yim Kheng 097 58 93 890
Fish Disease and their treatments
Introduction Fingerlings are key input for fish culture. Over four years, farmers bought fingerlings from local hatcheries in
Stung Treng Province. After stocking fingerlings for over one week, farmers found some fingerlings are gasping
at the surface. Farmers took some fish samples to check and they found some signs of the milky white areas
appearing in the fish’s fins and tail and the affected of fin rot the fish’s tail and some had reddish dots at fish’s
barbs. From aquaculture experts told them that the fish diseases it might be caused by different reasons for
instance before putting fingerlings, those ponds were not cleaned properly; weather conditions (too cold,
continuous rainy for a few days); and generally farmers put both fish and water from hatchery to their tanks.
They don’t know sometimes diseases were from hatchery water.
Results After seeing physical appearance changes, farmers have treated fish as followed and the fish seemed to get
better:
- Put fingerlings into saline solution (10 Liters of water and about 2 table spoons or 3 grams of salt) for
10 to 15 minutes, and then return those fingerlings to pond
- Mix one or two tablets of Tetracycline with a Kilogram of pellet then feed fish for a few days. Some
farmers used Ampicillin (100gram) mix with 20 kilogram of pellet and feed for 3 to 5 days.
Lesson learned To prevent fish disease, farmers must take water from hatchery away from the pond and put fingerlings to saline
solution for 10 to 15 minutes before releasing them into the WISH Ponds tank.
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Group 2 o Story title: Using water from WISH tank for watering vegetable gardens
o Group members: Mr. Ouch Vibol 092 53 82 84 Miss. Prom Saveoun 092 95 12 16
Miss. Moeung Dany 071 68 85 922 Mrs. Nath Vanna 071 19 61 20 17
Mrs. Phoeu Kamfat 097 71 61 357 Mrs. Pheou Oudon
Mrs. Koeung Soleng
Using water from WISH tank for watering vegetable gardens
Introduction A huge amount of water was used for growing vegetables. Previously, farmers did not use water from the
WISH Ponds for their gardens. Nowadays, vegetable gardens are grown using water from the WISH Ponds.
Vegetables are being grown and include Chinese Flowering Cabbage (Spey Chankoeu), Flower cabbage (Spey
Kra-Nhanh), Morning glory, lettuce, egg plants, and Chili.
Results A case from Mrs. Phoeu Khamfat at Kamphun village, her vegetable garden has increased in size from a small
plot 80 m2 (4 m X 20m) to 150 m
2 (5 m X 30m). Previously, she grew vegetables only for home consumption.
Before she used Wish’s water, her garden wasn’t growing well because she didn’t add fertilizer and lack of
water for irrigate garden, she therefore grew vegetable only in rainy season. She grew only a few kinds of
vegetable in her gardens which spent only 45 days per year. And then she kept land for free.
After she has WISH tank, she has used WISH’s water but she didn’t use it much at the first and second phase.
Later on she knew the value of WISH’s water through WISH trainings and VEN meetings that WISH’s water
was rich of fertile for growing vegetable. She was expanding her garden. She could grow vegetable both dry and
rainy season. She observed that after using WISH’s water, only 25 days she could harvest vegetable to sell.
After harvest fish or during lack of fingerlings season for culture, she fills water up the pond for water
vegetable. Now she grows vegetable for home-consumptions and for sell to neighbors and middlemen in the
village. She manages fish and home-garden by herself.
Lessons learned If you use too much of the WISH’s water it can be too much and affect vegetable grows. Need to use the right
amount of water for vegetables. When we use WISH’s water we do not need to spend money to buy fertilizers at
the market or use natural fertilizers.
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Group 3 o Title story: Fish culture: high productivity and profitability
o Group members: Mrs. Seng Lin 097 27 41 184 Mrs. Cheng Sreyneng
Mrs. Sem Sokhun 097 29 00 062 Mr. Im Bunchhun
Mr. Hem Chea 071 29 64 438 Mrs. Sem Sokhorn 088 25 79 195
Mr. Kong Oun Mrs. Va Leakhna
Mrs. Lath Puth Mr. Sao Ry 088 54 58 944
Fish culture: high productivity and profitability
Introduction Fish culture shall be produced high productivity if farmers perform following the technical skills, having good
advice, observations, feeding the right amount of pellets, changing water often enough, and especially using
WISH ’s water to do many things like using it for vegetable growing.
Fish culture: high productivity and profitability (cont.)
Result Few farmers have good practices in fish culture including Mr. Sem Sokhem at Koh khondin village, he maintains
good practice in fish culture like daily record keeping; feeding pellets and supplementary feeds like termites, red
ants, and snails; changing water every 10days (3 times per months) and using WISH’s water for growing
vegetable. He clarified that he attended training and workshop in the WISH Ponds project.
Recommendations In order to have good practices in fish culture, you need:
- Find the right place to build a fish pond
- Know how to choose fingerlings
- Buy the pellets that are high protein
- Daily observations after feeding the pellets and before feeding the pellets
- Don’t miss daily record keeping
- Must know how much is enough to feed fish
- Find a Market for products
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Group 4 o Story title: Strengthen and expand fish farming
o Group members: Mrs. Noeu kom Khoeu 097 76 88931 Mrs. Chao Chantha 012 60 42 89
Mr. Kem Bunvath 011 42 39 81 Mr. Teoung Yorn 071 65 15 91
Mrs. Rong Maradey Mrs. Chankov
Visioning for the future
Mrs. Chea Seila, asked workshop participants to think about what were the successes and lessons
learned that over the past two and half Years. She then asked--What can you now do by
yourselves without funding from WorldFish. She asked all the farmers to write this down on
cards and a Gallery walk was done afterwards. Results are as follows:
- Continue fish culture and vegetable growing (10 participants)
- Take knowledge, technical aspects and experience to real practice on the farm ( 3
participants )
- Expand wish tanks and home garden ( 4 participants )
- learning more in fish culture and vegetable growing (3 participants )
- Expand to feeding animals ( pigs, chicken, ducks ) 2 participants
- want to buy farmer product like fish and vegetable ( 1 participant )
Sharing interests from participants
Some participants in this workshop said that, it has been was very useful, they have met other
WISH farmers, to share experience, knowledge and problems on fish culture and using WISH
Ponds water. They have opportunities to learn a lot from each other, and it has encouraged them
Strengthen and expand fish farming
Introduction Fish culture in the pond solved some problems as food and daily eating, reduces spending, improved income via
fish culture and used WISH’s water to grow vegetables. Women and old people can do this job as well.
Lesson learned - know technical aspects in fish culture in the pond
- Know about pellet protein
- Know how to observe fish eating and qualities of WISH’s water
- Know how to make daily records
- Expand to vegetable growing by using WISH’s water
- Know technical aspects to make supplementary food (from natural products)
Commitments - We must continue fish culture in ponds and use WISH’s water for home gardens
- Expand WISH ponds and home gardens
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to continue their efforts in fish culture in cement tanks and using water. They said that we are
thankful to WorldFish and FIAC help support this project. However, they still need support
especially knowledge and technical aspects related to fish culture and vegetable growing.
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Annex 1: List of participants
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Annex 2: Agenda of the workshop
Final WISH pond workshop
Title: Emerging results from WISH Ponds Enterprises for Cambodian households and smallholders
project in Stung Treng province
Date: 14 January 2016
Venue: Sekong Star Hotel
Purpose:
Final workshop and to document lessons learned
Objectives
To provide opportunity for the WISH pond participants and stakeholders to share their
experiences, progress and outcomes of carrying out the WISH pond process over the project life
span (November 2013 to 2015)
To discuss the end of project and explore future development strategy for communities and
partners (focusing on link to future project and networks)
Participants
WorldFish: 3
CEPA: 2
FiA-Stung Treng: 2
Fish trader: 1
Hatchery owner: 2
WISH farmers and VEN committees: 29
Total: 39 people
Logistic
WorldFish car and driver: done
Venue booking – Vibol to be informed
2 times of coffee break and 1 lunch meeting – Vibol to be informed
Meeting material: 1 set - Kanha
LCD projector and screen from CEPA –Kanha
Attendant list - Vibol
Participants’ DSA – Vibol
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Schedule
Time Activity Notes Responsible
08:00 – 08:15 (15 min)
Registration Vibol
08:15 – 08:30 (15 min)
Welcome and opening remarks Julie
08:30 – 08:45 (15 min)
Introduction - Why we are here? Purpose & objectives
- General agenda
Seila
08:45 – 09:00 (15 min)
Expectations from Workshop - What are your expectations? Vibol
09:00 – 09:15 (15 min)
Presentation on the WISH project - Background of WISH pond (updated)
- Community and Partners engagement
Seila
09:15 – 09: 30 (15 min)
Presentation: Field Notes on WISH pond (August to December 2015)
- Kosal
Group photo -
09:30 – 10:20 (90min)
Timeline exercise (November 2013 to End of 2015) (ask what are the changes) - Gallery walk and one person in the
VEN to be a presenter in the group - Each gallery takes for 10 mins
- By VEN: o Changes occur since
2013 (Outcomes), How the changes happened? And impact the changes on individual/community life. Ask participants to discuss based on evidence and lessons they learned.
- 4 guiding questions: o What new
knowledge you have learned and you didn’t know before?
o What do you do now and didn’t do before?
o What inspire you the most that can make use to share or apply in the future?
o What are the things that have not
Seila, Vibol and Kosal
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changed or made the situation worse?
10:20 - 10:35 (15min)
Break -
10:35 – 11:00 (25 min)
Continue—Timeline exercise - Plenary session
o Volunteer provides reflection on timeline exercise
- Seila
11:00 – 12:00 (60min)
Group exercise: (3 VEN groups plus 1 partner group) - Identify case story (Positive and
Negative) to share in the workshop o Facilitators make sure
each story is different from another group
- Each group write down story on the
flipchart and present to all (Plenary)
Aim: - is important for VEN to
share their own case study that they are proud of and also their challenges (WISH technology, Market, Gender, livelihood opportunity, Collaboration…)
- and the opportunity to establish link or network with each other for potential future collaboration or partnership
Seila
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break -
13: 30 – 14:30 Continuation from capturing stories exercise - Each group write down story on the
flipchart and present to all (Plenary)
14:30 – 14: 45 Break
14:45 – 16:00 Visioning our future: where do you want to go from here? (Networks and opportunities)
Individual exercise: - What will they do now given
the successes and lessons learned that over the past two and half years as the WISH participants? (Do it by themselves without funding)
- Participants write it down on cards
- Facilitator cluster the cards by themes
- Gallery walk
16:00 – 16:20 (20min)
AAR workshop Participants and facilitators
16:20 – 16:30 (10min)
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