Trailblazer Cambodia Organization (TCO) is a local non-governmental, non-profit organization registered in 2008 and led by Cambodian Agriculture and Rural Development specialists. TCO is governed and led by a woman who is the chief board director and the executive director is also a woman. Moreover, more than 80 percent of TCO staff is women Board members, and the management team and staff have all experience working with natural resources management, community development, education, chemical-free agriculture, and WASH sectors. We promote community-based natural resource management and teach target groups to become self-sustaining. TCO seeks out additional support for vulnerable groups, such as women and children, who are often marginalized in traditional development systems. Operationally, TCO focuses on knowledge dissemination and creating sustainable, local development models that can be successfully replicated in other areas.

Our vision is: “Every family will be able to live life in all its fullness”. To achieve our vision, TCO got its mission to contribute to the alleviation of poverty in our target areas of Cambodia and improve the overall quality of life for the families who live there.

The DEFIP project (Fish Value Chain Development), implemented in five countries, started in Cambodia in February 2020. It aims to promote the development of family Agroecological fish farming for commercial purposes. The target is to address local food and nutritional challenges while making sustainable use of resources and promoting the adaptation of rural activity systems to climate change. The action specifically targets the diversification and increase in the livelihoods of family agricultural production units through the integration of extensive, sustainable, and profitable fish farming on farms. TCO is implementing the project in partnership with APDRA, a French NGO promoting profitable and sustainable family fish farming in developing countries (Link).