Improving Process and Evaluation

Nearly 80 percent of Cambodia’s population lives in rural areas and is heavily involved in the agricultural sector. However, many rural farmers live in poverty, unable to provide means beyond subsistence living. Brooklyn Bridge to Cambodia (BB2C) strives to strengthen rural communities by developing small business projects for villagers through its Pump Project, which provides more effective irrigation. The organization acts as a distributor for their Treadle Pump, marketing the pump to villages where members have farming skills and small plots of land. BB2C requested a Capstone team to help design a longitudinal study to assess the impact of the pump in villages where it was adopted. The team leveraged existing survey materials to provide impact measurement recommendations and worked collaboratively with BB2C to construct a new field survey. The team then traveled to Cambodia and worked with the local staff to create, test, and implement the survey, demonstrating to local staff how to leverage survey data.