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Dharamsala: In March 2019, CTA’s SARD entered into a three-year partnership with the American Indian Foundation (AIF) through which AIF committed to place two of their William J. Clinton Fellows each September for a service period of ten months. The Fellowship is named after former United States President Bill Clinton. More

Dharamshala: A senior CTA delegation comprised of Mr Kaydor Aukatsang, Chief Resilience Officer, and Dr Kunchok Tsundue, Chief Planning Officer, completed a highly successful Tibetan Resilience Tour of nine cities in the United States and Canada from June 22 to July 29, 2019. More

Dharamshala: The Department of Education, CTA Dharamasala is organising the first leg of EGR workshops for pre-primary teachers from 29 April - 3 May, 2019 at Administrative Training & Welfare Society, Dharamsala. A total of 23 pre-primary teachers from STSS, TCV and THF schools from northern region are participating in it. More

Dharamshala: The five-year CAD 5.4 million funding for education of Tibetan youth in India and Nepal announced by the Canadian government in November 2018 formally entered implementation stage with the visit by a delegation of Agriteam Canada staff to Dharamsala and South India from March 17-29. Agriteam Canada is a well-known international development firm and CTA’s partnering NGO in Canada. More

Dharamshala: The American Indian Foundation (AIF) and CTA’s SARD entered into a partnership on March 22, 2019. Under the partnership, AIF will commit to placing two Fellows from their William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service within CTA for a period of ten months starting September 2019. More

SARD,Dharamshala: Recognizing that effective reading skills are an essential prerequisite for skill development and learning in other areas, the need for a multi-year strategy and policy support to strengthen early grade reading in Tibetan Schools was a primary recommendation of the Education Advisory Committee (EAC) constituted by Department of Education (DoE), Central Tibetan Administration (CTA More

Dharamshala: A delegation of Population, Refugee and Migration (PRM) officials based in Kathmandu, Nepal visited Dharamshala from 19 to 21 March 2019. PRM is an agency within the US States Department and the delegation comprised of Mr. Alex Ave-Lallemant, Regional Refugee Coordinator; Dr. Leah Pao, Deputy Regional Refugee Coordinator; and Mr. More

Dharamshala: The US President Donald Trump signed the ‘Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019’ on Friday, 15 February which sanctioned the fiscal year 2019 funding for several government departments through September 30, 2019. More

Dharamshala: The Social and Resource Development Fund (SARD), Department of Finance rolled out a new Summer Livelihood Support Programme for 2019, under which CTA will provide loans worth a total of Rs 12 Crores (120 Million) at a minimal 3% interest rate to support Tibetan Summer businesses across India. More

A four-day Five-Fifty forum was held on “Building a Resilient Tibetan Community” in Dharamsala from 13-16 September 2018. Organised by the Department of Finance, the forum was the third part of the Kashag’s Five-Fifty Vision that was launched in October 2017. More

Dharamshala: Tibetan refugees have illusively remain at the margins of financial services especially credit markets. Commercial banks and other institutional lenders have exclude Tibetan startups and businesses as they do not have conventional collaterals. More