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Name: David Moore Position: Australian Team Leader Biodata: David Moore has a broad mix of justice skills having retired from executive positions of Commissioner, Department of Justice (Correctional Services) and Deputy Commissioner with responsibility for Police, Fire and Emergency Services in Australia. As a seasoned development practitioner with experience in the Asia-Pacific region, David has worked actively throughout his career with individuals to promote best practice, professionalism and accountability in themselves and their Agencies. He brings skills and experiences to promote effective communication, relationships and genuine partnership with all Law and Justice Agencies with whom he works. In his previous role as the Team Leader of the Pacific Regional Policing Initiative (PRPI), a multilateral initiative co-funded by the Governments of Australia (through AusAID) and New Zealand (through NZAID), David lead his team to significantly contribute to a safer, more secure and stable environment amongst Pacific Forum Island Countries. His role included effectively managing the PRPI Project on a day to day basis, accounting for program resources, promoting collaborative work practices, enhancing prospects for sustainability of the program outcomes, providing the strategic oversight, leadership, logistical support and project management systems necessary for the effective delivery of PRPI activities. Prior to his appointment as Team Leader for CCJAP III in March 2009, David carried out short term advisory work within the Pacific environment generally in a leadership mentoring role.

Name: Cheryl Clay Position: Deputy Team Leader and Corrections Adviser Biodata: Cheryl Clay has a diverse mix of justice, community development and management skills. She has worked in a range of areas including health, mental health, child protection, juvenile justice, community development, prison management and policy development. She has held executive positions within the Australian government in both the justice area, specialising in correctional administration and management in prisons and community based correctional services, and in the social policy area, specialising in social justice issues such as poverty reduction, access to justice and safer communities. Cheryl brings this history and experience to CCJAP III (Cambodia) in her dual roles as the specialist Corrections Adviser and the Deputy Team Leader. As the corrections specialist, Cheryl has overseen the implementation of a range of initiatives aimed at improving options for the rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners and promoting a human rights approach to prison administration and prisoner management. In her role as Deputy Team leader she has overseen the implementation of a number of local government systems and strategies to support the implementation and monitoring of local community programs that promote community safety and crime prevention. Cheryl is also responsible for the CCJAP project cross cutting themes of gender, juvenile justice and HIV/AIDS. A community development approach to implementation of these activities has improved communication with support partners and increased partnerships with community based organisations in the justice sector. Cheryl has a Bachelor Degree in Social Work and post graduate qualifications in Business Management and Public Health, specialising in Healthy Cities and Communities.

Name: Chor Siek Veng Position: National Adviser - Capacity Building and Aid Effectiveness Biodata: Veng has been working for CCJAP since 2003 under phase II. Before joining CCJAP, Veng worked in Kosovo with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and in East Timor with the Independent Electoral Commission of the United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor (UNTAET). In addition to this experience Veng spent five years with DFDL, a law firm in Cambodia. Veng graduated from the Royal University of Phnom Penh as an English-Khmer translator/interpreter in 1993 and recently he received a Master of Business Administration in Management from Preston University USA. Veng has established a good reputation in the sector for his work on management processes and is looking forward to assisting the government with furthering its reform efforts. Other interests: playing ping pong, watching TV, and reading.

Name: Sath Vuthy Position: Project Officer-Capital Works Biodata: Vuthy is a Project Officer for Capital Works Construction having joined CCJAP in 2007. Vuthy is a practicing civil engineer and a member of the Engineering Institute of Cambodia (EIC), 2002 and a member, ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations, 2004. He has over ten years work experience in engineering design, project budget allocation, preparing sub-project cost estimations of construction phases, material survey and cost analysis of construction elements for different organizations including; Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank (WB), European Union (EU) and AusAID. For the last seven years, Vuthy mostly concentrated on a community participation modality. During this period he has conducted capacity building for a School Support Committee, Contractors, Local builders and Construction Foremen. He also conducted regular random checks on construction quality assurance, joined weekly / monthly meetings to review all work progress as well as site problems. He also worked as a free land consultant for Mekong Eye Doctors (Netherland) and built Eye clinics in Kratie and Stung Treng Provinces. Other interests include learning new subjects; watching TV, sport, travelling to provinces and overseas.

Name: Nou Arun Position: Project Officer- Capital Works Biodata: Arun is the Project Officer for Capital Works (Planning & Design) who commenced work for CCJAP III in 2007. He is a professional Architect with over 10 years experience in several major international and local projects in Cambodia. Arun has previous experience working as a National Facilities Construction Consultant, with the World Bank Loan/Grant Projects - Both Flood Emergency Rehabilitation Project (FERP) & Cambodia Education Sector Support Project (CESSP). His responsibilities included the technical verification and insuring of correct support documentation that accompanies all payment requests and included random field trips to visually inspect works and ensure they met project standards. As an Architect with Belgium Technical Cooperation (BTC), he was in charge of the Design of the BETT- School Model Standard, produced all Architectural Drawings and prepared bidding documentation. He was also involved in the private sector with several International Architecture Firms (Axiom, Cochin, and G117). Arun's hobbies are visiting ancient temples and Modern Architecture.

Name: Heng Jolie Position: Senior Project Officer - Crime Prevention & Community Safety Biodata: Lee commenced working in the criminal justice sector in 2003 with CCJAP as a Training Project Officer. Prior to this Lee managed his own Khmer Training School providing non Khmer students with language skills and cultural understanding of Cambodia. Lee has also worked for a variety of organisations including the Mekong River Commission and Ministry of Women's Affairs, as well as being engaged by the German Development Service and Japanese International Co-operation where he provided language training and cultural awareness courses. Lee was awarded a Bachelor of Management from the Cambodian National Institute of Management and is also a qualified Workplace trainer and Assessor.

Name: Chrea Dalya Position: Provincial Project Officer - Kandal Biodata: Dalya is a Project Officer for Crime Prevention and Community Safety having joined CCJAP in 2007. She is a practicing lawyer and a member of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Dalya is also a Associate Professor at the Lawyer Training Centre (LTC) working on the draft of the Civil Code. She has over four years experience in practicing as a lawyer and in working for different Organizations including; East-West Management Institute (EWMI)-Cambodia, Lawyer Training Centre (LTC) ,Free Legal Consultation Office and Community Legal Education Centre (CLEC). She enjoys hard work but is flexible, adaptable and goal oriented. Dalya was simultaneously awarded a Bachelor of Khmer and French Law and graduated respectively from the Royal University of Law and Economics, and the University of Lyon II. Dalya completed her internship as a lawyer with a French Law Firm in France. She recently won a fellowship program to study for a Diploma in Transitional Justice and Human Rights at the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), hosted in Cape Town, South Africa. Dalya comes from modest family where her parents are teachers, and she has four brothers.

Name: Ky Bunnal Position: Senior Provincial Project Officer - Battambang Biodata: Bunnal graduated as a registered Nurse in accordance with the UN standard curriculum in 1992 and Diploma in Training Assessment at workplace and, has successfully completed a Masters of Public Administration at University of CUP, Phnom Penh, and. He is now engaged as a Project Officer, CPCS with the Project for the next three years, Bunnal will assist in supporting Battambang Government, community, and agencies to support the Integration of CPCS plan in accordance with National Committee for the Management of Decentralization and Deconcentration Reform Guidelines. He has a strong commitment to work closely at the sub-national to improve security and gender, with a key focus on women and child, and vulnerable groups.

Name: Um Sok Chamroeun Position: Provincial Project Officer - Prey Veng Biodata: Cham Roeun started working in Crime Prevention and Community Safety in August 2008 with the Cambodia Criminal and Justice Assistance Project. From 2000 to 2007, He worked for Lutheran World Federation Organization in Cambodia in the post of Community Empowerment Officer (CEO) which had focused on 7 components as Community Development, Human Rights and Advocacy, Food Security, Health, Education, Income Generation, Disaster and Mitigation. He also was graduated the bachelor degree in French language at University of Phnom Penh in 1998 and Master Business Administration in General Management at Build Bright University of Phnom Penh in 2006. Cham Roeun has other skills as Training Skill, Human Resource Management, Community Facilitation Skill, Community Development, Micro Finance Management, and Project Planning and Design.

Name: Long Silux Position: Provincial Project Officer - Banteay Meanchey Biodata: Silux is a Provincial Project Officer for Crime prevention and Community Safety commenced working for CCJAP on 20 April 2009 based in Banteay Meanchey province. She had experienced on Midwife and involved with the health sector for the period of 10 years that was started since 1983 to 1992 with graduated the certificate of Advanced Midwife from UN standard in 1992. She had joined working with different International and Local Organization as the assistance project manager and adviser for CARE International, Danish Cambodia Consortium (DCC), SEADO, UNDP/ CARERE II, Partnership for Local Governance ( PLG) and Project to Support Democratic Development through Decentralization and Deconcentration (PSDD) for the period of 15 years that started since 1993 to 17 April 2009 with focused on Capacity Building , facilitation skill, Community Development, Planning/Budgeting preparation, Project management, Project implementation, DIP program , Monitoring and Evaluation that partnership with the Government counterparts. The key counterpart working direct are line department in the province and supported 4 Units of PRDC ExCom, especially, to Provincial Local Administration Unit (PLAU), District Development Committee (DDC) Commune councils (CCs) and PBC to engagement in democratic development in order to enhance Decentralization and Deconcentration policy and Good governance for sustainable way.

Name: Sum Sokha Position: Provincial Project Officer - Kampong Thom Biodata: Sokha started working in Crime Prevention and Community Safety in April 2009 with the Cambodia Criminal and Justice Assistance Project. From 1982 to 1992, He worked for CONCERN as Assistance Sanitation Manager. From 1992-1993, He worked for Christian Outreach (COR) as Assistance Project Manager. From 1993-1994, Sokha worked for United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) as Food Distribution Monitor and Researcher for Returnees, Vulnerable people, Widows, Orphanages, Elderly and data analysis. From 1994-2000, He worked for Action Nord Sud (ANS) as Assistance Project Director to be in charge of Local Development Work. From 2000-2009, Sokha worked for UNDP Program of CARERE II, PLG and PSDD as Local Administration Advisor focusing on Capacity building, Project planning/Budgeting, Advice, Technical cooperation, Monitoring and Evaluation to support D&D. Furthermore, He had also been responsible for District Initiative Program (DIP) and Inter-Commune Cooperation Project (ICCP) in past 3 years. Especially, He had experiences in Facilitation skills, Training skills, Micro finance management, Community development work, mapping (GIS & GPS) and computer software/hardware. His interests: Willing to learn languages and skills, meeting people and making friends.

Name: Khiev Sothy Position: Provincial Project officer - Kampong Cham Biodata: Since 1995, he graduated from Royal University of Agriculture,Chamcardoung, as Field of Fisheries Science. He used to work with development agencies such as AIT, CIDA, LWF, PSDD, and PLAN international with different leadership and management skills. Moreover, He has been traveled to joint development trainings, workshops, and exposure visits at overseas in order to build capacity to be stronger and stronger for holding job responsible. He is currently working with Cambodia Criminal Justice Assistant Project in Cambodia, as responsible on crime prevention and community safety based on Kampong Cham Province. His habits are like to travel to somewhere for sightseeing, playing music, watching TV, playing games, and reading news new.

Name: Susan Ball Position: Australian Federal Police Adviser Biodata: Susan joined the CCJAP team in February 2010. She has been an Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer for the past 22 years and has worked in a variety of diverse law enforcement arenas, both within Australia and Internationally. Her career includes community policing, learning and development (training), criminal investigation, AFP Executive support and as a police advisor. Susan has obtained an Advance Diploma in Project Management and is a qualified and experienced workplace trainer. Ten years of law enforcement career of Susan was as a community police officer in A.C.T policing. With this experience and as a trainer, a majority of her CCJAPIII role over the next 2 years will be to advise the Cambodian National Police (CNP) Executive on the implementation of the Community Policing initiative, to complete on objective of the CNP strategic plan for 2009 -2013. Susan will also provide technical advice to support the CNP Gender Mainstream Action Group (GMAG) to progress workplace rights of women and policing roles for CNP police woman. Prior to her deployment to Cambodia, Susan worked as an investigations team leader in Darwin, Northern Territory (NT), Australia. She was part of a joint multi-agency taskforce, an initiative of the Australian Government lead Intervention, to combat Child Abuse within remote NT Indigenous Communities. In 2010 Susan was awarded an Australia Day Achievement Medallion for this role. Susan has worked and travelled, representing the Australian Federal Police, in all states of Australia and internationally in London, Washington, Indonesia and several Pacific islands. Susan is married to Robert who is also a police advisor, working in Phnom Penh with the Cambodian National Police Transnational Crime Team.

Name: Huot Veng Chan Position: Senior Project Officer - Police Biodata: Chan commenced working in the criminal justice sector in 1998 with the Cambodia Criminal Justice Project Phase I. Since this date Chan has performed a variety of roles on both CCJAP phase I & II working mainly on activities to assist reform the Cambodian National Police. Prior to this he worked for a variety of International and local non government agencies such as the International Rescue Committee, the World Bank Labour Law and Education of Women and Children Project, the Cambodia Trust Limb Project, as well as managing a School of English. Chan is a fluent English reader and speaker and also speaks and reads Thai. Other skills possessed by Chan include; Financial accounting, Small Business Management, and Project Planning and Design.

Name: Yan Sokha Position: Senior Project Officer - Ministry of Justice and Courts Biodata: Sokha has a Bachelor of Law Degree having graduated from the Law School of the Norton University in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2001. He is currently part way through his studies for a Masters of Law Degree. He worked in both the CCJAP I and II projects. Now CCJAP III, He is engaged as a Project Officer, Ministry of Justice and the Courts with the Project for the next five years. Sokha will assist the Ministry of Justice, Provincial-Municipal court and Appeal Courts to improve the practices and the procedures. He has experiences in providing legal written and verbal translations, monitoring and evaluation, project planning and designs and coordinated activities at provincial and ministerial levels. His work within CCJAP has involved assisting the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior to draft legislations, circulars and instructions relating to program initiatives. Sokha also worked closely with both overseas and locally engaged advisers to produce the Ministry of Justices new Criminal Court Procedure Handbook as well as preparing training curriculums, national and provincial workshops and administrative matters. He has excellent relationship with all the counterparts and high levels of the government agencies. He knows how to deal with the government agencies with the effective ways. Other interests: watching TV and travelling.

Name: Lam Kunboth Position: Senior Project Officer - Prison Management Biodata: Both graduated from the Royal University of Agriculture in 1992, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy and employed as an Agriculture Teacher at Prek Leap Agriculture College and also was Chief of the Technical Office. Both started working with CCJAPI in May, 1998 as a translator/interpreter and prison farm adviser in the area of Prison Management. His responsibilities were to assist delivery of project outputs at the operational level of national and provincial/municipal prisons. In 2001 when the project was extended to phase II he was promoted to Project Technical Assistant and in 2006, Both was promoted to Project Officer with the wider responsibilities to work with international staff to deliver outputs at the operational and policy levels of national and provincial/municipal prisons. Both is interested in working with prison people who are living and working as a community and is looking forward to working in the area of prison operational management and integrated farming systems in prison. Both is living with his partner and they have one daughter. Both likes watching the news and traveling.

Name: Eam Yuth Position: Manager, Finance and Administration Biodata: Yuth commenced work with CCJAP in 1997 at the beginning of Phase I. He has now been the Manager for Finance and Administration for 10 Years. As the Manager - Finance and Administration Yuth has the responsibility for managing the Ministry of Interior Project Office and Project site offices. Yuth enjoys working with the project to improve project management and operations. He is committed for the next five years and will seek to maintain the strong team spirit. Yuth's hobbies are visiting ancient temples and tourist centres as well as beaches, natural waterfalls and travelling to overseas.

Name: Vathana Chan Position: Manager, Flexible Support facility Biodata: Vathana is responsible for the management of the CCJAP Flexible Support Facility in partnership with the Team Leader and Local and International Advisers. His is responsible for ensuring all operations of the FSF support a genuine Government of Australia and Royal Government of Cambodia partnership in the resource allocation decision making process. Before undertaking this task, Vathana spent three years working with the CCJAP Crime Prevention and Community Safety initiative in Phase II as a Coordinator in Kandal Province. (CCJAP II undertook a CPCS Pilot Project in Kandal to help to establish CPCS Committees and network of Institution/organisation both public and private to support those Committees). Vathana has also managed the Trust Fund in implementation of the Pilot Project in Kandal provided technical support, Community Development and Capacity building and on the job training to Kandal CPCS Committees both at Provincial and District level. Prior to joining the CCJAP Team, Vathana was a member of the academic staff at the Institute of Economics where he has spent seven years as a lecturer at that Institute.

Name: Sao Samsak Position: Communications Officer Biodata: Sak is the Communications Officer for CCJAP III, and commenced working in this capacity in September, 2007. Before engaging with CCJAP III, she has previous work experience with private sectors (banking, airlines, and advertising agency), international agency (Commune Council Development Project/ADB), and local NGO (Women's Media Centre of Cambodia). Sak gained a Bachelor Degree of Business Administration in August, 2007 majored Financial Accounting. As the Communication Officer, she will provide assistance to Project Manager to manage the Project Communication Strategy, develop a meeting and contact strategy with stakeholders, donors and NGos directly involved in CCJAP activities. Further, she looks forward to building the good communication strategy of CCJAP. Sak's hobbies are swimming and travelling to abroad.

Name: Vuth Ratanak Position: Interpreter/Translator Biodata: Vuth Ratanak is the interpreter/translator who commenced his work with CCJAP III on January 1, 2010. Holding this position, Ratanak is responsible for managing the CCJAP translation requirements including the translation of reports, contracts, articles, letters, and other documents as required from English to Khmer and vice versa. Other duties are interpreting during meetings, workshop, and provincial visits. He got his Bachelor Degree in Education (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) in 2009 from Institute of Foreign Languages. Ratanak has worked as a teacher of English for over two years. In addition, he used to have some work experience as the Deputy Head of English Department for Cambodian Youth’s Future Institute. He has strong commitment and teamwork spirit in doing his job and also establishes good working relationship with his co-workers. He used to volunteer to teach high school students in provinces for Community Legal Education Program. Ratanak received the award of excellence which was granted in recognition of his 5th most outstanding scholastic achievement in Year 3 and on February 28-29, 2008 he also won the first Cambodian client counseling completion in the second place. Currently, he is doing his final year at PUC to get his Bachelor of Law.

Name: You Veasna Position: Logistic and Support Officer Biodata: Veasna commenced working with CCJAP III in September 2007 as an assistant to Admin & Finance Manager. In this working capacity Veasna not only assist the finance manager but he also provides assistance to the project team as required. Veasna has a strong commitment to build good relationship with all team members. Veasna enjoys listening to International music.

Name: Maureen Phillips Position: Sexual Assault Specialist Biodata: Maureen was a private practitioner in general medicine for 12 years with a particular interest in women's health, multicultural health, family planning, sexual health and psychiatry, before completing studies in Clinical Forensic Medicine at Monash University. She currently coordinates the Medical and Forensic Service of the Sexual Assault Resource Centre in Perth, Western Australia and provides professional development to health practitioners, police and justice. Maureen has been involved in developing guidelines for responding to sexual assault in mental health services and co-initiating a Sexual Assault Services Advisory Group for services in W. Australia. She has developed collaborrative research links with Curtin University including the development of a sexual assault research data-base. She is Vice President (Medical) of the national association FAMSACA (Forensic and Medical Sexual Assault Clinicians Australia). Maureen is keen to further her work as a medical advisor with CCJAPIII.

Name: Tim O Shaughnessy Position: Short-Term Adviser - Monitoring and Evaluation Biodata: Dr Tim O Shaughnessy has over thirty years experience in program design, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of social-development programs in Australia and overseas. He has evaluated overseas-aid projects across several sectors, including law and justice, public administration, HIV and health, vocational education and training, micro-enterprise development, food security and services of children. He has worked in over 20 countries in Asia, Pacific and Africa. Over the past six years, he has provided ongoing evaluation services to AusAID-funded projects in many Asia-Pacific countries including Cambodia, PNG, China, Fiji, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Indonesia and East Timor. Tim is the director of his own consulting company and lives in Fiji. He is assisting CCJAPIIII to design and implement its monitoring and evaluation framework.