SAAMBAT aims to sustainably increase productivity of the rural households, youth, women and other vulnerable groups, and supporting rural enterprises and economy for employment and income generation by making key investment interventions in:

• Sustainable and climate resilient rural infrastructures – upgrading the rural roads, local ferry crossing, rural markets and collecting points for agricultural produces, and capacity strengthening for managements of the assets.
• Strengthen skills, and entrepreneurship for youth and poor and vulnerable households
• Increase use of digital technology in rural economy;
• Address root-causes of gender inequalities; and
• Organize inclusive value chain links and networks (AIMS and ASPIRE).

The expected intermediate results are: achieved lower production and transaction costs, increased trade and procession, increased labour productivity, and increased private and public investment and economic opportunities for the poor and vulnerable households, especially for women, youth and indigenous people.

The Project Development Objective (PDO) of SAAMBAT is “Productivity of youth, enterprises and the rural economy increased.” The term “productivity” is explained in the box.

PRODUCTIVITY means the amount of value created by an economic activity for each unit of input. For example, labour productivity means value created for each day of labour. Productivity of land means value created for each hectare of land. Productivity can go up even when production goes down. For example, one year a farmer uses 2ha of land to produce 5 tonnes of rice. His profit from rice growing is 2 million riels (2MR). The next year, the farmer grows rice on 1 ha, and cassava on 1 ha. He produces 3 tonnes of rice and makes a profit of 1.5MR from rice growing. Rice production is reduced, but productivity of land used for growing rice has increased from 1MR / ha to 1.5 MR / ha.

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