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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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 |
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1998 |
Plateau Perspectives (PP) is founded in
Canada |
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1998
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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2002 |
PP is registered in Canada as
non-profit organization |
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2002-04 |
PP collaborates on a SSHRCC-funded regional community health
project |
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2003-08 |
PP implements the Yangtze Rivers Headwaters Sustainable
Development Project |
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2004 |
PP is recognized in Scotland as a
charitable organization |
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2004 |
PP assists in the production of EC-funded participatory video of
nomad life |
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2005 |
PP is incorporated under Corporations Canada |
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2005 |
PP organizes and hosts a strategic planning meeting with the
Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve (SNNR), the Government of
Zhiduo County, and UYO |
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2006 |
PP begins NORAD-funded project on environmental management |
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2007 |
PP establishes an official Permanent Office in
China, registered in Xining |
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2007 |
PP begins new projects and activities in both Qumalai county and
Zaduo county |
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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 |
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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 |
