Project Objective

The overall development objective of the project was to contribute to poverty reduction through increased household income, particularly through increased agricultural sector productivity, and increased local community empowerment in selected rural areas of Cambodia.” The project has targeted to have a poverty reduction rate of 7.5% by the end of the project. The table indicates the status against the target against project overall objective.

Overall Objective	Objectively Verifiable Indicators	Present	Target after 16 Nov 2007	Source of Verification
To contribute to poverty reduction through increased household income, particularly through increased agri- cultural sector product- ivity and increased local community empowerent in select rural areas of Cambodia	·   Poverty rate (or poverty headcount index) = % hh with very low income < 1.500.000 R/capita	Overall: 27%/ (baseline 60.5%) FHHH: 34%/ (baseline 74.9%)	Lowered by 7.5%	BASELINE (Q.4)
	·   Poverty score (composite indicator based on 8 parameters)	Present: 100,9/ (baseline100,3)	sensibly improved (>5%)	STATS (Comm.dBase, 8 param)