MOUL SAMNEANG, Ms.
The Asia Foundation
No. 59, Street 242
P.O. Box 536, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Mobile Phone: 855-12-833-316
E-mail:
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Policy Advisor for OPTIONS program, August 1, 2006 – present (and will continue till August 2007)
§ Manage a four-year program funded by U.S. Department of Labor through World Education. The program aims at preventing trafficking and exploitation of children through the use of innovative formal and non-formal education strategy. As a policy advisor, I work to connect OPTIONS’ on-the-ground experience in education interventions to national and local policies, particularly through work with local government bodies.
§ Facilitate capacity building training for Commune Education For All Committees (CEFACs) regarding project planning with the focus on problem identification, setting up a SMART goal, planning activities, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation.
§ Facilitate district, provincial level consultation and national workshops, which was on of the major components of the program.
Senior/Program Officer, The Asia Foundation (TAF), July 1, 1996 - present
Duties:
Program Management and Administration:
§ Manage programs on violence against women including trafficking in persons and domestic violence, women’s political participation, women’s economic and legal rights, and girl education initiatives.
§ Review project proposals and budget submitted by partner organizations as well as other NGOs to make sure that their proposed programs meet strategic problems and needs, and are in conformity with the Foundation program priorities, as well as cost effective, and thereby provide necessary comments to the Representative and/or Assistant Representative of The Asia Foundation for final decision.
§ Conduct due diligence of new organizations that apply for financial support to determine their eligibility to receiving grant from The Asia Foundation.
§ Prepare grant agreement and other correspondence for the Assistant Representative and/or Representative’s signature.
§ Request for disbursement of grant funds for partner organizations
§ Provide technical assistance/advice to partner organizations such as serving as resource person in reviewing their training curriculum, conducting orientation workshop on child exploitation to partner organizations, and dealing with other grant management related issues.
§ Maintain documentation of each grant file of core documents including grant agreement, budget, narrative and financial reports, and other correspondences.
§ Fulfilled grant administration as it is important to the program operation which includes preparing quarterly and semi-annual reports as required by grant administration procedures
§ Arrange international travel for grant beneficiaries including government officials and NGO members to go on observation study, training, workshops and conferences.
§ Work as a team with other colleagues to facilitate consultative and coordination workshops, conduct survey research interview
§ Represent The Asia Foundation in other Foundation and non-Foundation supported activities such as meeting and conference.
Program Development:
§ Program on Women’s Economic and Legal Rights (WELR): Developed and managed two sets of WELR. The first one started in 1997 with the focus on promoting self-organized groups among market women to advocate to the government for their rights to selling space and freedom from being extorted and to improve their livelihood through the implementation of credit and savings program. The second program related to Advocacy Training and Mobilization, in which I worked closely with an implementing NGO to train female grassroots activists on skills they need to advocate on three issues affecting women’s economic rights: civil registration, child support, and property ownership. The trainees were recruited from Village Development Committees, political parties, NGOs, and from ordinary groups of citizens representing different civil status – single, married and divorced.
§ Work with partner organizations, many of which focus on gender issues, to develop program strategies to promote Cambodian women's interests in the areas of women’s political participation, governance, elections, gender, Basic Rights and Security, and media advocacy.
§ Assist Representative and Assistant Representative in preparing project proposal, workplan, and budget.
Program Monitoring and Evaluation:
§ Monitor partner organizations’ program activities as well as their financial management through field visit and review of their quarterly and/or semi-annual narrative and financial reports.
§ Develop appropriate performance indicators to evaluate the project impacts.
§ Prepare reports on different projects for different donors.
Program Assistant, The Asia Foundation, June 20, 1994 - June 30, 1996
Duties: (similar to the above with less independency)
Executive Assistant/Grant Officer, The Asia Foundation: October 1, 1993 - June 19, 1994
Duties:
§ Managed the central filing system, and kept track of the grant ledger.
§ Assisted the Representative in setting up appointments and meetings.
§ Implemented other tasks as assigned by the Representative such as preparing correspondence in response to requests from various sectors.
§ Coordinated Grant Administration with program staff.
Book for Asia Program Assistant, The Asia Foundation: September 6, 1993 - September 30, 1993
Duties:
§ Registered and catalogued books and journals before distributing to various sectors including government institutions, Universities and NGOs, whose requests were approved by the Representative.
Data Entry Supervisor in United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)'s Computer Center, August 1992 to August 1993.
Duties:
(After intensive technical training in New York in August of 1992):
§ Interviewed and hired Khmer data entry clerks for UNTAC.
§ Trained 90 inexperienced data entry clerks to enter voter registration cards into the mainframe computer.
§ Supervised and administered the 90 data entry clerks on a day-to-day basis as they entered 25,000 voter registration cards per day.
§ Analyzed and evaluated the performance of every member of the staff on a daily basis on a spreadsheet.
§ Troubleshot problems in the voter registration cards.
Chief of Technical Division of Adult Literacy Central Committee, 1986 - 1992
Duties:
§ Developed and wrote Khmer literacy curriculum and translated materials from English and Thai into Khmer.
§ Managed the staff of 30 adult literacy teachers.
§ Directed the printing of curriculum.
§ Prepared reports for donor (UNBRO)
§ Conducted training for adult literacy teachers
Secretary of Adult Literacy Central Committee, 1984 - 1985
Duties:
§ Monitored classes of Adult Literacy
§ Wrote reports for the UN-funded National Education Office.
Teacher of English, 1986 - 1990
Duties:
§ Co-taught with American teacher Conversational English and English grammar to
Khmer adults.
Primary School Teacher, 1982 - 1983
Duties:
§ Taught students at grade 3 subjects including reading, writing, Mathematics, and social study.
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
§ Delivered a keynote speech at the workshop on Poverty Alleviation of Women through Economic Empowerment organized by SCWO, Singapore and WCCO Cambodia supported by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Cambodia (May 18-19, 2006)
§ Worked as a team with an international consultant to conduct a study on Aid Effectiveness and Aid Coordination in Cambodia. The study aim is to raise the level of debate about donor harmonization and alignment in order for all interested parties to be able to make more informed judgment about how best to proceed with coordination (October 2005).
§ Conducted induction study for newly arrived expatriate to Cambodia to give an overview of Cambodia’s social, cultural, political and economic situation through arrangement of meetings with different NGOs and government agencies.
§ Worked with code of conduct officer from brand companies to assess social conditions of garment factory workers.
EDUCATION:
§ Master in Development Management (MDM), 2001, Asian Institute of Management, Philippines. Course work includes: Operational Management, Environmental Analysis, Marketing Management, Organizational Diagnosis, Economics, Strategic Management, Financial Management, and a whole range elected courses that include Public Policy Analysis, Local Governance, Learning Methodology, Strategic Management, and Strategic Human Resource Management.
§ Passed the Test of English as a Second Language as administered by Gwynedd Mercy College, Overseas Tutorial Service.
Courses and seminars (all successfully completed):
§ Training of Facilitators on Results-Focused Project Design and Management organized by Asian Development Bank in Hua Hin, Thailand, June 13-20, 2007.
§ Law of Marriage and the Family; Legal Systems and Administration of Justice; Property law; Elections Law, and International Human Rights Law courses, conducted by the Cambodian Community Legal Education Center, University of San Francisco, 1996 - 1999.
§ Educational Leadership Course at Buriram Teacher College, Thailand, supported by The Asia Foundation through Cambodian Children Education Fund (CCEF), 1991- 1992.
§ Basic Managerial Skills as taught by Catholic Office for Emergency Relief and Refugees (COERR), 1991
§ Desktop Publishing on the Macintosh as taught by IRC and funded by UNBRO, Aranyaprathet, Thailand, 1991.
§ English Teaching Methodology as taught by COERR 1989-1990
§ Teacher Training course provided by National Education Department in the border camp, October 1981 - June 1982
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE:
International Symposium on Trafficking in Persons – sharing experiences in Asia and Europe, Tokyo, Japan, October 2- 7, 2006
§ Participated in a panel of four speakers from the UK and Japan to present to the audience the current status of Trafficking in Cambodia and it characteristics, roles of NGOs in counter-trafficking in persons activities in Cambodia, government’s counter measures against trafficking.
§ presented The Asia Foundation’s Review of a Decade of Research on Trafficking in Person in Cambodia to a group of Japanese researchers, scholars and NGOs.
§ Joined a team of two participants from UK on a study tour to visit various women’s shelters in Yokohama city and visit to the National Police Agency and Ministry of Health for briefings on Japanese government’s counter trafficking in person measures.
Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Workshop in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 9 -11, 1999
§ Participated in the workshop to develop a shared understanding within the Foundation of how a successful SME development program can fit into and contribute to broader economic and governance goals at the country and regional levels, and to improve capacity within the Foundation to design and implement effective and innovative SME development programs as well as establish a baseline of knowledge with country program staff on SME related programming, and thus to improve their ability to discuss program options with local SME experts and potential partners, and with funders.
Staff Development Workshop in Washington, D.C., September 14 - 18, 1998
§ Participated in the workshop organized by The Asia Foundation, in which program staff from different field offices met together to develop a common understanding of various issues, concepts, methodologies and strategies critical to women’s programming and to identify and explore the possibilities for follow-up collaboration on concrete projects and strategies.
Seminar in Budapest, Hungary, June 20 - 24, 1998
§ Participated in the “Transitional Training Seminar on Trafficking in Women” organized by Network Women’s Program of the Open Society Institute in coordination with Global Survival Network, in which women representing over a hundred non-governmental organizations from 37 countries throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Newly Independent States (NIS), Europe, Asia and North America came together to discuss the issue of trafficking.
Observation Tour of the Women Members of the National Assembly to the U.S. and Canada, May 26 - June 14, 1996
Duties:
§ Served as interpreter for seven women members of the National Assembly who visited the California State Legislature in Sacramento, Washington, D.C., the House of Common in Ottawa, Canada, and met with Parliamentarian Women Caucuses as well as other women organizations in the U.S. and Canada.
§ Provided back-up on logistics
Presiding Officer of the Polling Station in Sydney, Australia, as appointed by UNTAC from 15 May 1993 - 28 May 1993.
Duties:
§ Disseminated information on the Cambodia Election to the public through Australia's media.
§ Answered questions on the Election Process as raised by the public and the press.
§ Supervised a team of five polling official and volunteers.
§ Managed the documentation as required by the Electoral Law of 1993.
Training in New York: August 1992
§ Participated in an intensive technical training on electoral computer system, sponsored by UNTAC.
COMPUTER SKILLS (On IBM compatible computers):
§ Microsoft Office (proficient in both English and Khmer typing)
§ E-mail and internet
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
§ Fluent in speaking, reading, and writing English, Khmer, and Thai.
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