SO Sovannarith – Research Fellow, Rural Development and Livelihoods, CDRI

SO Sovannarith - Research Fellow holding MSc in Environment and Development from the University of Reading, the United Kingdom 2003. 

SO Sovannarith joined CDRI in June 1996 as a researcher in charging of Rural Livelihoods and Development Studies.  He has completed a number of studies and co-authorship in a number of CDRI Working Papers including: “Learning From Rural Development Programme in 1998; Cambodia Labour Migration to Thailand: A Primary Assessment in 1999; Monitoring the Cambodian Economy through a Rapid Quarterly Survey of Vulnerable Workers in Phnom Penh in 1998-1999; CCCR and CDRI Facts Finding Mission in the Reconciliation and Reintegration of Former Khmer Rouge Zone in 1999; Technical Assistance and Capacity Development at the School of Agriculture Prek Leap in 2000; Technical Assistance and Capacity Development in an Aid-Development Economy: The Experience of Cambodia: A Case Study of the Malaria and HIV/AID Sub-Sectors with Particular Reference to Battambang Province in 2000; A Study of the Cambodian Labour Market: Reference to Poverty Reduction, Growth and Adjustment to Crisis in 2001; Cambodian Labour Migration to Thailand: A Preliminary Assessment in 1999; Social Assessment of Land in Cambodia: A Field Study in 2001; A Baseline Survey of the Impacts of the Land Titling and Registration in Cambodia (forthcoming 2004). He is undertaking another research project entitled Moving Out of Poverty (forthcoming 2005). 

In addition, he had extensive experiences in curriculum development, teaching and training in animal production, agricultural extension and community development, as a trainer employed by the Department of Technique, Economics and Extension, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 1987 to 1996. In order to achieve these tasks, he had two Post Graduate Diplomas; first, in Training in Rural Extension and Training from Larenstein International Agricultural College, Deventer, the Netherlands, 1993-94; and second, in Agricultural Extension, Co-conducted by the New South Wales Agricultural Department, Australian and the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries-CMAFF, 1992-94.