IWRM in Cambodia: OiEau at the River Festival in the Stung Sen Basin
The River Festival, which honors a river, its inhabitants and the crafts of its basin, was organized from 8 to 10 March 2023 in Kampong Thom, the main city of the Stung Sen basin, where OiEau has implemented an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) project, financed by the Loire-Bretagne and Rhin-Meuse Water Agencies.
On the occasion of the Kampong Thom River Festival, the project team supporting IWRM on the Stung Sen held a stand to meet the inhabitants of the basin and to present the project and the activities carried out in the area.
The festival also attracted stakeholders from beyond the borders of the basin, including the Prime Minister of Cambodia and several provincial governors, who had the opportunity to visit the project stand and learn more about IWRM in the Stung Sen basin.
The Stung Sen is a watershed of the Tonle Sap River located in the northwest of Cambodia. It was selected in 2012 by the Cambodian Ministry of Water as a pilot basin for the implementation of integrated water resource management tools, adapted to the local context.
The Stung Sen project combines institutional and decentralised cooperation, which are interlinked and enable a more appropriate response to the basin's challenges. The creation of a basin executive committee, the participatory preparation of a first cycle of basin planning (which ended in 2021), and the many activities carried out (institutional support, knowledge, training, communication, coordination with clean water projects), have produced concrete results that benefit the basin's populations.
A second phase has been launched in 2023 to continue these efforts and give the basin stakeholders the means to use the Basin Committee as a discussion and planning tool to implement an action plan to meet the challenges facing the basin.
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