Empowering Villagers

The Snow Leopard Conservancy engages villagers – from small children to great-grandmothers – using Appreciative Participatory Planning and Action or APPA. APPA is relatively quick and easy for villagers to learn and implement, and has been applied to community-based conservation initiatives in Nepal’s Makalu-Barun Conservation Area, Sikkim’s Khangendzonga National Park, Tibet’s Qomolangma National Nature Preserve and India’s Hemis National Park. APPA has empowered communities to focus on their assets and positive attributes and learn from their successes instead of focusing on their problems and negatives. It mobilizes individuals and groups toward concrete actions they can start immediately, and it enables the initiation of long-term change toward self-reliance.

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