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Project Detail:
Capacity Building and Climate Resilience for Sustainable Tourism at Tehri Lake.
The technical assistance (TA) will support implementation of the proposed Sustainable, Inclusive, and Climate-Resilient Tourism Development at Tehri Lake Area Project (the project). The project will support rural livelihoods through sustainable tourism for the Tehri Lake area of Tehri Garhwal District in Uttarakhand Stateamong the state's poorest hill regions and subject to climate change-induced natural hazards, outmigration, and linked impacts to rural women; and rapidly increasing visitor numbers. The project is aligned with the following impact: tourism's contribution to gross domestic product of Uttarakhan State increased. The expected project outcome is: sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient tourism inTehri Lake area established. The expected outputs are: (i) climate-smart institutional framework for tourismstrengthened; (ii) climate-resilient, gender-responsive, and accessible infrastructure for tourism established; (iii) tourism led by women, youth, and the private sector scaled up; and (iv) nature-based solutions for environmental protection and women-led disaster risk management (DRM) enhanced. The project will befinanced by a regular loan of $126.42 million from Asian Development Bank's (ADB) ordinary capital resources. The proposed duration is six years (20252030). The executing agency is Uttarakhand State, acting through the Department of Tourism.
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