MoU signatories and witnesses, from left: Ms. Monica Garry, Executive Director, The Bridge Fund; Dr. Hemanta R. Mishra, Senior NGO Specialist, Asian Development Bank; Prof. Jean-Louis Armand, AIT President and Mrs. Mishra
AIT, The Bridge Fund Sign Accords
AIT and The Bridge Fund (TBF) signed accords to jointly develop projects and activities related to higher education, research, training and capacity building initiatives that would support and promote environmental conservation, sustainable economic growth and social and cultural development in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures and Counties in the Provinces of Gansu, Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan and the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China.
The MoU was signed at AIT on Sunday, 21 November 2004 by Prof. Jean-Louis Armand, AIT President, AIT and Ms. Monica Garry, Executive Director of The Bridge Fund (TBF). The event was witnessed by Dr. Hemanta R. Mishra, Senior NGO Specialist, Asian Development Bank; Mrs. H. R. Mishra and Mr. Tenzin Rabgyal, Program officer, Office of the President.
From right: Ms. Monica Garry, Executive Director, The Bridge Fund; Prof. Jean-Louis Armand, AIT President; Mrs Mishra; Dr. Hemanta R. Mishra; Senior NGO Specialist, Asian Development Bank, and Mr. Tenzin Rabgyal, Program Officer, Office of the President, AIT
The Bridge Fund (TBF) (http://www.bridgefund.org)
is a non-profit and nonpolitical charitable organization registered in the State of California, USA and as a project of the Philanthropic Collaborative (TPC) Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, (RPA) in New York, U.S.A. The Bridge Fund was established in 1996 by a distinguished group of Asians, Americans and Europeans in response to needs expressed by Tibetan communities in China.
Both AIT and TBF recognize that a collaborative and strategic alliance between the two parties is essential, to build on synergies of each organization's strengths and their shared vision of poverty reduction and environmentally sustainable development. Thus, both parties agree to develop an AIT-TBF Target Driven Program: Scholarships, Research and Development, Information Sharing and Knowledge Management, that would include collaborative arrangements of mutual interest to AIT and TBF.