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Environmental protection & community development

in the Tibetan Plateau region of China

青藏高原地区环境保护与社区发展

         

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Plateau Perspectives is an international organization that helps local communities and government leaders find long-term solutions to promote more sustainable livelihoods, to improve people's quality of life and to protect the natural environment in the Tibetan Plateau region of China.

Program areas include the Environmental Protection, Community Health, Basic Education and Income Generation. Special attention is also given to an important cross-sectoral theme, Gender Equity, and as the need arises also to Social Assistance.

Plateau Perspectives (PP) has five distinctive characteristics:

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PP integrates conservation of biodiversity and community development

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PP considers the "local" - environments, cultures, and indigenous knowledge

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PP seeks to achieve sustainability in all fields of work

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PP aims to develop successful replicable models of development

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PP develops partnerships with local communities, government and NGOs

All these factors help ensure that the work remains focussed on the local people and their environment. Such a focus is essential to attain long-term success.

Plateau Perspectives also embraces 10 core values:

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Professional excellence in all work

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Performance (results-based evaluation of work)

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Generosity (love for neighbours, care for the environment)

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Integration of development and conservation as expression of faith

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Partnership between community, government, and external advisers

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Focus on local initiatives, and government policies that affect communities

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Commitment (what will it take to get the job done, not what can we gain)

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Servant attitude (how can we assist each other to achieve joint goals)

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Humility (we don't have all the answers, only suggestions)

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Integrity and honesty in both life and work

 

History of Plateau Perspectives

1998 Plateau Perspectives (PP) is founded in Canada
1998                 PP assists in the development of grassroots NGO Upper Yangtze Organization (UYO) and also with the establishment of five community protected areas in Suojia district, Zhiduo County
1998-02 PP enlists the support of Biodiversity Working Group, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment & Development (BWG/CCICED) to help develop more people-centred strategies for conservation in the Tibetan Plateau region
1999 PP provides binoculars and other basic field equipment to the Suojia Ecological Monitoring Committee in order to enhance wildlife and habitat protection in Suojia district, Zhiduo county
2000-09 PP supports the establishment of Muqu community centre: village school (2000-05), village clinic (2006-07) and village environmental training and research centre (2008-09)
2001 PP provides field equipment to grassroots NGO Friends of the Wild Yak to enhance wildlife protection, and also provides assistance to the community school and clinic in Cuochi village, Qumahe district, Qumalai county
2001-04 PP assists in the development and execution of a DEFRA-funded FFI project in Suojia district, with local partners UYO and Qinghai Environmental Protection Bureau
2002 PP is registered in Canada as non-profit organization
2002-04 PP collaborates on a SSHRCC-funded regional community health project
2003-08 PP implements the Yangtze Rivers Headwaters Sustainable Development Project
2004 PP is recognized in Scotland as a charitable organization
2004  PP assists in the production of EC-funded participatory video of nomad life
2005 PP is incorporated under Corporations Canada
2005 PP organizes and hosts a strategic planning meeting with the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve (SNNR), the Government of Zhiduo County, and UYO
2006 PP begins NORAD-funded project on environmental management
2007 PP establishes an official Permanent Office in China, registered in Xining
2007 PP begins new projects and activities in both Qumalai county and Zaduo county
2007 PP signs agreement with the Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, for research on the conservation of grassland ecosystems and biodiversity in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
2008 PP signs agreement with the SNNR Management Bureau to develop 'community co-management' as a new people-centred approach to conservation in the source area of the Yangtze, Yellow and Mekong rivers

           

Plateau Perspectives (c) 2003-2009

http://www.plateauperspectives.org

Canadian charity no. 88353 511 RR0001

Scottish charity no. SC036202

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