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Participatory Land Use Planning for Ecotourism |
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STC-RFA-001 |
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Community-based ecotourism has great potential to support and enhance livelihoods while encouraging environmental conservation in the project area. The PRA revealed a strong interest by the communities in Tagong in ecotourism. Currently there are a small number of domestic tourists that visit the area. However, the communities do not have the capacity and experience to improve and expand the services that would support the much needed and desired expansion of cultural and ecotourists. Among the major constraints is the lack of cross community ecotourism planning – especially for horseback trails that transverse the communities, hiking, guides, homestay /lodging, and activities of interest to a tourist.
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Livestock Health Training |
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STC-RFA-002 |
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This grant will build on Tibet’s rich indigenous knowledge of livestock health and will also expose trainees to new appropriate methods and techniques of veterinary care. The objective of will be to provide training that will focus on issues that are easily treated or prevented in order to improve the survivability and production of livestock. A side environmental benefit will be reduced exposure of wild ungulate population to these diseases. It is also anticipated that trainees will provide improved veterinary care for a fee to livestock owners. Special attention will be given to ensure that women participate in the animal husbandry training and follow-up activities
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Key markets, opportunities and constraints to cultural and natural resource products and ecotourism |
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STC-RFA-003 |
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Organizations applying for the grant will propose procedures, processes and outcomes that design, build on, and promote community-based products and services. To achieve the project objective of increased income opportunities from sustainable and diversified products and services by local Tibetan-owned businesses, the grantee will work with project staff, local agencies, and community members to analyze market opportunities, identify weaknesses in the value chain, and identify training and technical assistance to address those weaknesses and create new, sustainable market linkages.
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Business Development Services |
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STC-RFA-004 |
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This grant is to provide business development services [BDS] training to entrepreneurs [identified during the PRA and follow-up activities] in developing and expanding their business in priority areas, such as dairy processing, tourism services [teahouses, restaurants, and homestay lodging], and medicinal products, such as caterpillar fungus. Special attention will be given to ensure that women participate in the BDS training and follow-up activities.
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Management of Grassland Resources(Larger Grant) |
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STC-RFA-005 |
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Organizations applying for this grant will undertake to meet one of the following 3 conditions and propose how it would achieve through its activities the support of the relevant objectives:
1. Participatory Survey of Grassland Ecology, Wildlife Distribution and Rangeland Conditions
2. Civil Society Organization Empowerment
3. Grassland Ecology, Rangeland Management, Environmental Monitoring
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Management of Grassland Resources(Seed Grant) |
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STC-RFA-006 |
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The objective of these small grants is to enable herder communities of Tagong Township to establish effective mechanisms to manage their own grassland resources so as to insure sustainable use of the grasslands and to protect valuable environmental resources. Priority will be given to grantees that are community-based village-level associations.
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