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Plateau Perspectives is an international NGO that helps
Tibetan communities and government leaders find
long-term solutions to promote more sustainable livelihoods, to improve local
people's quality of life and to protect the natural
environment - as an expression of practical Christian love for the world.
Program areas include the Environmental Protection,
Basic Education, Community Health and Income Generation.
Special attention is also given to an important cross-sectoral theme, Gender Equity, and as the need arises,
to Social Assistance.
Plateau Perspectives (PP) has five distinctive
characteristics:
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PP integrates the 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
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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.
Specifically, since its foundation Plateau
Perspectives has undertaken several important projects, most in close
collaboration with the local
Upper Yangtze Organization, including:
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Upper Yangtze Project, with the
Biodiversity Working Group,
China Council for International Cooperation on
Environment & Development (1998 - 2002) |
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Partnership in the Village and Township Doctor
Training Program in Shannan Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, with
British NGO
Kunde Foundation (2000 - 2001) |
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Environmental Education Teacher Training
Workshop on the Tibetan Plateau, with Chinese NGO
Friends of Nature (2001,
2002) |
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Health Status and Risk Factors of Nomadic
Pastoralists in Southern Qinghai Province, with the University of Montreal
and Health Bureau of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (2001 - 2004) |
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Yangtze Headwaters Sustainable Development Project, with the
Government of Zhiduo County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (2003 -
present) |
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