SFFF Cambodia Taskforce and Stakeholder Meeting
Siem Reap, 24-25 October 2019
Cross-cutting activities:
Gender, Capacity building, and Taskforce

GENDER AS CROSS-CUTTING TOPIC
• Objective 1: To generate actionable evidence on the health and economic burden
(gender-disaggregated) of FBD associated with ASF in Cambodia.
• Objective 4: To make recommendations for enhanced engagement and benefit
sharing for men and women in ASF value chain through improving
understanding of gender aspects and the gender appropriateness of
interventions and also to integrate nutrition and food safety.
• SFFF gender activities: training(s), nutrition, market, household, risk
assessment, cost of illness component integrating gender aspect

Gender and livestock training
• Organized by CelAgrid in
partnership with NAHPRI and ILRI
• 22-23 Jan 2018
• ILRI Gender trainer, Nicoline De
Haan & 2 co-facilitator
• 9 participants (3 females, 6
males)
• National state agencies, research
academia and university

Gender and livestock training, 22-23 January 2018
• The training workshop was offered by ILRI in response to an important
component of the Safe Food, Fair Food (SFFF) for Cambodia project on
gender equity in the pork value chain in Cambodia.
• The objectives of the workshop were:
– For the whole team to understand and be comfortable with the
concepts and terminology of gender, so as to have a common
understanding of the issues;
– To identify with the team the emerging gender issues and solutions
that need to be addressed in the project;
– To identify the capacity within the team to support the gender work;
– To develop a gender activity plan, identifying responsibilities and
interlinkages between various outputs within the project;

Gender training, 1-2 October 2019
37 participants

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Capacity building

System effect modelling training
• Organized by ILRI and University
of New South Wales
• 21-23 May 2019
• National state agencies, research
academia and university
• Using System Effects modelling to
identify challenges, impacts and
strategies for improving food
safety in Cambodia and Vietnam

1. PhD at ILRI and SLU, Mr.
Rortana Chea
2. PhD in nutrition, Emory, USA,
Ms. Candice Duong
3. MSc Morgan Emory
4. Six RUA undergrads students,
5. SEAOHUN / KOICA /RUA
fellow: Phally Pha DVM
6. Mr. Chea Bunthon, DVM
students, RUA
Student training

Students Research topic Degree
Mr. Chea Bunthon
(male)
Prevalence and Risk Factor of S. aureus in pork
and chicken in Phnom Penh markets
DVM, RUA
Mrs. Pha Phally
(female)
Prevalence and AMR profiles in Salmonella
species isolated from chicken and pork in
Cambodian markets
DVM, RUA & SEAHOUN
Mr. Tit Khouch
(male)
AMR profiles in Salmonella isolated from chicken
meat in Kampong Cham and Tboung Khmom
Province
BSc in Veterinary
Medicine, RUA
Ms. Pov Sreymov
(female)
AMR profiles in Staphylococcus aureusisolated
from chicken meat in Kep and Kampot province
BSc in Veterinary
Medicine, RUA
Mr. Muth Soknin (male) AMR profiles in Staphylococcus aureus isolated
from Meat in Prey Veng and Svay Rieng Province.
BSc in Veterinary
Medicine, Prek Leab
National School of
Agriculture
Mr. Ky Panhavoan
(male)
AMR profiles in Staphylococcus aureus isolated
from Meat in Bantheay Mean Chey and Porsat
Province
BSc in Veterinary
Medicine, RUA
Ms. Roeurn Sopai
(female)
AMR profiles in Salmonella spp. Isolated from
meat in Kampong Speu and Takoe Province.
BSc in Veterinary
Medicine, RUA
Mr. Chea Rortana
(male)
Food safety hazards and risks in Cambodian meat
value chain, with special emphasis on bacteria
and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
PhD in Biomedical Science,
Swedish University of
Agriculture Science,
Sweden
Ms. Candice Duong Nutrition study in Cambodia PhD in Nutrition, Emory

Hung Nguyen, Fred Unger, Teng Srey, Tum Sothyra Tum
SFFF for Cambodia project
Taskforce of food safety risk assessment Cambodia
Updates and Future
Siem Reap, October 24th 2019

1. Risk profiling
1. Scoping visits
2. Systematic literature
review
3. Risk profiles
4. Training in risk ranking
5. Stakeholder prioritisation
2. Generate
evidence on FBD
Five Urban Survey
Study
QMRA
Markets
Cost of
Illness
Household
Nutrition
3. Develop & test solutions for wet
markets
RCT intervention
Taskforce
Gender TOC
NutritionImpact

Food safety risk assessment for informal value chains
• Organized by NAHPRI in
partnership with ILRI and WHO
• 15-17th Jan 2018
• 30 participants (70% male, 30%
female)
• National state agencies,
research academia, universities
and international organizations

Taskforce: translational research
• Support food safety technical working
group of Cambodia
• Risk assessment expertise and case
studies
• Linking to other projects of food safety
• Trainings

Strengthening Food Safety in Cambodia: Establishment of Food
Safety Technical Working Group for Food Safety (FOS TWG)
• Inter-Ministerial Prakas 868 (2010) on the Implementation and
Institutional Arrangements of Food Safety Based on the Farm to
Table Approach has mandated 6 Ministries to share the
responsibility for food safety.
• However, each Ministry still manages food safety through
separate systems. Even though coordination and information
sharing across sectors has been in place, this is still ad-hoc and
very limited.
Objective: To enhance systematic sharing of information and
routine communication in the field of food safety across sectors:
Multi-sectoral Technical Working Group for Food Safety (FOS
TWG)

Proposed way forward
To add food safety research and training
(taskforce) into the existing national food safety
technical working group to strengthen the existing
group and optimise the synergy of, and to avoid
duplication of efforts in different food safety
activities in the countries.

• Multi-sectoral Technical Working Group for Food Safety (FOS
TWG) has been established
– Objective is to enhance systematic sharing of information and routine
communication in the field of food safety across sectors
– Composition
• Ministry of Health (MoH)
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF)
• Ministry of Commerce (MoC)
• Ministry of Industry and Handicraft (MIH)
• Ministry of Economic and Finance (MEF)
• Ministry of Tourism (MoT)
• Drafted TOR
• Meeting every two months

NEXT PLAN 2019-2020
• Working with foodborne disease outbreak investigation and response system group
on food safety research and training (taskforce) to strengthen this existing group and
provide evidence and method for food safety management.
• Siem Reap meeting 24-25 October
o FBDOIRS regular meeting 0.5 day
o SFFF Stakeholder meeting 0.5 day
o Taskforce meeting 1 day
• Member of Taskforce
o FBDOIRS core members = 10 people (including Sothyra and Srey)
o SFFF core members: Hung, Fred, Rortana, Ty (4)
o Other institution technical risk assessment members: FAO, WHO, IPC, ITC, NIPH, BBU (6)
• Vietnam study tour March 2020?
• Policy briefs
• Policy meetings in 2020
• Communication products (briefs, newspaper, video)

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