About Us

Socheat is an Executive Director, of Sansom Mlup Prey Organization in Cambodia and an SRP-authorized trainer. He holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Rural Development in Tropic and Sub-tropic Area from the University of Life Sciences Prague in the Czech Republic. He specializes in rural social economic research, sustainable farming system project design, develop climate change adaptation and mitigation plan in agriculture sector, and establish agriculture extension strategy. He experiences working as a rural social economic researcher at the Royal University of Agriculture for 4 years, developing grassroots implementation of SRP standards in Cambodia for 7years in 4 provinces (Kampong Thom, Battambang, Pursat, and Siem Reap) around Tonlesap Biosphere Reserve with multi-different stakeholders (WCS, BRICO, VSO and Mars Food) and maintaining with expansion supply chain of organic wildlife friendly rice (Ibis rice) project implementation working with different conservation organizations (WCS, Conservation International, Nature Life, Rising Pheonix, and Birdlife International).

Sambath Chan is working for the Samsom Mlup Prey organization (SMPO) as an operations manager and Women’s Economic Empowerment Specialist. He has a PhD in Environmental Anthropology and community base adaptation on climate change from THABASCA University, Alberta, Canada and a Master from Concordia University, Montreal, CANADA. His professional working interests include, indigenous and minorities livelihood, ethnographic research on climate change adaptation and resilience, gender and women’s economic empowerment trends and application for the international development mandate. Sambath has taught Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and taught Economic Anthropology at the Royal Fine Arts University in Phnom Penh.

Setha is a compliance and data manager with 6 years of experiences working alongside field teams of SMP organizations. Setha specialize in agricultural economics and rural development, programming, data analytics, and data management using Excel, Access, Python, MySQL, R, JavaScript. Moreover, he responsible to deliver trainings, knowledge to provincial staff on organic standard, data manipulation and application as well as mapping. Setha is a believer in science linked to Buddhist theory and uses his positive attitude and tireless energy to encourage others to work hard and succeed. Setha succeeds in using digital to collect and manage data of working on organic standards. In his free time, Setha likes to research technology, math solving, improve programming using Python modules and exercise.

DOUNG Taingkou has been working as a project coordinator for the SMP organizations based in Preah Vihear Province 2019; he was a community officer with us since 2017. Taingkou worked as a community outreach officer for WCS Cambodia in 2015. He held a bachelor’s degree in land management and land administration (LMLA) at the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA). During his 6 years with WCS Cambodia and SMP Organization, he experienced in Participatory Land Use Planning and established the Community Protected Areas (CPA). In his current role, he has been providing the capacity building to Village Market Networking’s committee as well as other members to improve their knowledge and sustainable organic agriculture. He especially worked with the community and local authorities to improve people’s livelihood and sanctuary conservation.

Oum Sam Ol is a Project Coordinator of SMP Organization base in Stung Treng province. He first joined SMP in Preah Vihear province back in 2012, then moved to his current place in 2019. Sam Ol graduated as a Young Leader at the Cambodian Center for Agricultural Studies & Development; he later earned a Bachelor degree of Management from the Angkor Institute. He experienced working as CEDAC Organic Rice Community Officer for four years in 2012. He used to work as the facilitator of the Rice Cultivation base on Natural Principles and was also a founder of the Rice Production Group.

Mr. Theng Thara Thara graduated from the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA), with bachelor’s degree is Agronomy Science. Thara worked as a Project coordinator at SMP Organization in 2019. Thara is running a project of Sustainable Rice Platform which is the core related to Women’s Economic Empowerment in the area. He is responsible for promoting sustainable agriculture, building relationships with community stakeholder and assisting supply chain operation. Thara coordinate all activities in Kampong Thom including oversee the work of agronomies and the project in general.

Chy Kalyan is 30 years old, before coming to SMP, Kalyan was a project coordinator at an International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) for 4 years. He joined with SMP in 2019 in Siem Pang district, Stung Treng province as an agronomist back then and currently is a project coordinator. He graduated from Chea Sim University of Kamchaymear (CSUK) majoring in Rural Development. Kalyan said, “I will use my experience to work with the community to help them gain a better understanding of the conservation of wildlife and forests in the area and to boost their livelihood by participating in SMP’s Project.

Mr. Hengly Vongrith has been working with SMP Organization as a project coordinator in 2020. He Mr. Vongrith got impressive educational experienced from different countries. He completed the course of Electricity Network in lightning from Ukraine Republic, the Techniques of Construction from Saigon- Vietnam, Development Organization at International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) at Silang Cavité, Philippines and Self-Help Group (SHG) at Karnataka state, South India in 2015. He got involved with different work experience since 1993 and getting around the work with the local NGO in Cambodia before coming to SMP. Mr. Vongrith is unique, he is able to speak four other languages beside Khmer, those are English, French, Russian and Vietnamese.

Based on above experience, he will closely match the SMP mission and help IBIS farmers to improve livelihoods and environment inside and around protected areas.

Teyaorm has been working in INGO and NGOs for almost 9 years. She earned a bachelor degree in International Relations from the University of Cambodia (UC). Besides professional experiences, she engage in different things such as a mentor for Weaving Women’s Leadership for Change; moreover, she was also selected to participate in YSEALI-Women Leadership Academy 2020. She is one of the US Embassy alumni who participated in exchange programs and travel to the United States and Indonesia. Lately, she started her own blog with the intention to provide space for readers to let go of their emotions, anxiety and seek for self-improvement.