Kulen National Park is located in 3 districts: Svay Leu to the west, Varin to the south and Banteay Srey to the east and north. The park covers two communes ? Khnong Phnom of Svay Leu and Khun Riem of Banteay Srey. The park is surrounded with 4 communes ? Beoung Mealea, Kantuot, and Tasaom communes of Svay Leu district; and Tbeng commune of Banteay Srey district. Knong Phnom is a commune of Svay Leu district and consists of 8 villages ? Anlong Thom, Tapenh, Sangke Lak, Popel, Khla Khmum, Preah Ang Thom, and Thmey. There are 923 HHs with 4,056 people, 2,087 women, live with 2,500 ha residential land and 5,700ha crop land (Chamkar) and 3,285 ha paddy field, and 5 CPAs. There are 3 large spring waters and 5 small spring waters, 3 religious mediation sites, and 12 ancient temples including Neakta, O?taop, Krabei Krab, Chey Chop, O?Thmardap, Kting slap, Phnom Srouch, O?Pha-ong Roung, Pram, Korki, Peam Krae, Trapeang Temples including an ancient city recently identified by Apsara authority.

Khnong Phnom commune housed rich biodiversity, ecotourism site, about 400 years old Buddhism center (Preah Ang Thom), and ancient temples and a town thus plays an important role in making a balance between the Angkor Wat temple and a source of water for use by people in Siem Reap town.
Forests in the project area as well as in the CPAs on the top of Kulen Mountain are presently under threats from illegal logging by people from outside as well as the community within the area to produce charcoal, timber for house construction and for other use including for sale domestically and export to international markets and without effective management. These illegal activities have been causing continued destruction to the forest while there is poor knowledge and understanding of the value of forest resources, biodiversity and ecosystem services by local communities, and limited participation in resource protection by local authority and relevant stakeholders, park rangers have limited resources ? human, skills, equipment and finance to patrol the forest effectively.

The proposed project on Knong Phnom Kulen focuses on promotion of local villager understanding of the value of forest resources, biodiversity and ecosystem and their links to local livelihood on Khnon Phnom commune. This will be achieved through awareness raising on the benefits of forest and relevant legal provisions; encouraging their participation in conserving 6,300 ha forest, restoring of forest cover, and planting of fruit trees particularly Kulen trees on 10 ha degraded land. Local livelihood will also be promoted through participation of community members in an affordable solar battery charging service. Support will also be provided to ecotourism including building capacity of community and its management committee to effectively operate their battery charging service and ecotourism activity after project end. The community expectation is that the forest biodiversity and ecosystem will be restored to stabilize the environment and for a healthy environment to provide essential services in support of local livelihood as well as in preventing erosion, reducing the shortfall in water supply and mitigating impacts from strong wind storms on the people living on top of the mountain and in Siem Reap town.

Objective 1
By early 2018 526 HHs consisting of 2,514 local community people, 1,302 women, in the project target villages have improved livelihood with the operation of ecotourism services and 3 solar battery charging system at affordable price.

Output 1: Three solar battery charging stations put in operation and with 369 batteries charging capacity for 369 HHs at affordable price.
Activity 1.1.1: Establishing a committee consisting of 7 members, 3 women, at Ta Penh, Sangke Lak and Popel villages to manage the solar battery charging stations.
Activity 1.1.2: Organizing a study visits for the battery charging management committee to an existing battery charging station in Kampong Chhnang as supported by UNDP-SGP-GEF.
Activity 1.1.3: Selection of 3 sites for solar battery charging stations.
Activity 1.1.4: Advertising and organizing for bidding to install 3 solar battery charging stations.
Activity 1.1.5: Installation of the 3 battery charging stations.
Activity 1.1.6: Building of houses for the 3 charging stations.
Activity 1.1.7: Equipping the charging stations with 2 generators in case there is insufficient sunlight.
Activity 1.1.8: Development and drafting of by-law and internal rule for management of the charging stations.
Activity 1.1.9: Provision of training for 12 participants on financial management for the management of the charging station and ecotourism services.
Activity 1.1.10: continue to provide support to the solar battery charging stations.

Output 1.2: 4 Community home stays are organized and a tourism center is developed at Popel village as it is located closer to Preah Ang Thom of all other target villages and for it has the potential of 78 ha community forest and 3 spring waters serving as ancient sacred sites including newly identified ancient sites. Training provided to the management committee and selected beneficiaries established by OOO/TDSP under the project on small scale business and ecotourism planning skills.
Activity 1.2.1: Establishing of a local ecotourism management committee of 5 members, 2 women.
Activity 1.2.2: Development of bylaw and internal rule on ecotourism management.
Activity 1.2.3: Provision of training to raise awareness and build capacity on ecotourism management for 60 participants, 40% women.
Activity 1.2.4: Study visits to Chambak community, Kampong Speu, by 17 participants, 5 women.
Activity 1.2.5: Provision of training of cooking for 15 participants, 7 women.
Activity 1.2.6: Provision of training on small business planning for 60 participants, 40% women.
Activity 1.2.7: Building of an ecotourism center, 5m x 7 m of coconut trees as construction materials, covered with Khun Mai leaves and with tin roof on top.
Activity 1.2.8: Organize selected local villagers houses as home stay to accommodate visitors.
Activity 1.2.9: Equipping the home stay and ecotourism center ? building toilets, provision of mosquito nets, blankets, mats, and kitchen ware...
Activity 1.2.10: Continue to provide support and monitor the ecotourism activities.

Objective 2
To conserve 805 ha CPA forest and reforest the degraded areas with tree planting and patrol the whole area regularly by the CPA committee with financial support from solar battery charging service under the OOO/TDSP project by 2018.

Output 2.1: 10,000 forest and fruit tree seedlings are planted on 10 ha degraded land by local community people from target villages and by HH to contribute to compensate the forest cover lost previously.
Activity 2.1.1: Negotiation with community to seek land for planting trees.
Activity 2.1.2: Purchasing of 10,000 forest tree and fruit tree seedlings.
Activity 2.1.3: 300 community people and 200 school children partaking in tree planting.
Activity 2.1.4: Maintaining of the planted trees.
Activity 2.1.5: Continued support and monitoring in the CPAs.

Output 2.2: 805 ha CPA area protected with regular patrol.
Activity 2.2.1: Meeting with CPA forest management committee and solar battery charging management committee in the project target villages with CTO, by 21 participants, 5 women.
Activity 2.2.2: Provision of patrol equipment to CPA management committee by CTO and financial support to cover patrol cost by solar battery charging management committee of OOO/TDSP project.
Activity 2.2.3: Continued support and monitoring of patrol activity in CPA area.

Objective 3
By 2017 and 2018 a case study and video story of success story developed and disseminated on good governance of Phnom Kulen landscape management and good experiences as well as challenges in project implementation including an independent evaluation.

Output 3.1: By the end of the project a case study and a video story is documented on the improvement of Khnong Phnom landscape with sustainable participation in conservation of resources by local community for further dissemination.
Activity 3.1.1: Project staff select pictures of key activities by the project to collate for a video story.
Activity 3.1.2: Production of video and case study.
Activity 3.1.3: Public dissemination of the video to subnational stakeholders ? communities and UNDP partner organizations.
Activity 3.1.4: Public dissemination of the video at the national and regional levels for example at the Cambodia-German cultural center and NECA network to raise public awareness on the environmental and climate change as well as community resilient program implemented by OOO/TDSP.

Output 3.2: Project launched, and the project lessons and good practices and challenges are monitored and independent project end evaluation.
Activity 3.2.1: Six quarterly meeting by 6 participants from CTO, ANKO and OOO/TDSP to share information on the project.
Activity 3.2.2: Launching of the project jointly by CTO, ANKO and OOO/TDSP with 20 participants, 10 women, organized by ANKO.
Activity 3.2.3: Advertisement for independent evaluator.
Activity 3.2.4: Project evaluation process.
Activity 3.2.5: Publishing the project evaluation report and end project report for submission to donor.