Michael Barton
Michael Barton is the Geospatial/SALASAN Field Manager for the Agriculture Development in Mine-Affected Areas (ADMAC) project. He has worked in southeast Asia for over 10 years with a number of international development organizations.
Michael Barton has a Masters of Education in the Sociology of Education from the University of Alberta. His thesis work focused on the efficacy of 'Self-Help Movements' with a comparative study of the Harambee Movement in Kenya and the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka.
Development research and publications:
socio-economic studies among indigenous ethnic communities in the remote northeast Cambodia for an IDRC-funded Natural Resource Management project compiled in the report Land and Culture: Heritage of the Highlanders;
research on current issues in Cambodian society for publication in the Civil Society and Good Governance newsletter of the Cambodian NGO, the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace;
two project evaluations for a Community-Based Flood Mitigation Project jointly funded by the Cambodian Red Cross and the Asia Disaster Preparedness Center;
a review of PACT Cambodia's 10-year Community Outreach Project to strengthen civil society organizations in Cambodia;
a Discussion Paper for CIDA on funding for civil society organizations in Cambodia working in areas of human rights, democratic development, and rule of law.
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