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Educational Development |
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STC-RFA-007 |
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The Sustainable Tibetan Communities Project will increase income by increasing jobs and training individuals in marketable skills. The project through its grants program will link businesses to growing markets and help establish businesses based on cultural skills and natural resource products. These skills will be institutionalized by strengthening local organizations to conduct development activities, not only in business and income generation, but in other critical areas such as health, education, environmental management and cultural conservation.
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Business Development Services |
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STC-RFA-008 |
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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 Natural Resources |
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STC-RFA-009 |
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The Sustainable Tibetan Communities (STC) project recently conducted a Participatory Rural Assessment (PRA) in Tagong, Kangding County that identified community involvement in natural resources management and environmental stewardship as being of critical importance to ensure sustainable use and preserve ecosystem health. This RFA will build on the PRA findings to develop “bottom-up” management strategies that directly involve the immediate users of natural resources in the management of these resources and that rely on local communities to plan and implement environmental conservation strategies.
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Management of Natural Resources(Seed Grant ) |
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STC-RFA-010 |
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The objective of these small grants is to enable community-based village level associations to establish effective mechanisms to manage their own natural resources so as to insure sustainable use of the natural resource such as grasslands and to protect valuable environmental resources.
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Key markets, opportunities and constraints to cultural and natural resource products and ecotourism |
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STC-RFA-011 |
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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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