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AgriterraTUSOCO
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The general objective of TUSOCO for 2009 is to promote community-based tourism as a model to organise farmers and indigenous communities. TUSOCO wants to strengthen their capacities in nature conservation and revaluation of their cultural and historical heritage. Most important, community-based tourism is regarded as a strategy which can help rural communities to become socio-economically sustainable. This work plan for 2009 is a logical follow-up on the executed activities in 2008 (project 08tu-5101).
Besides offering capacitation services to its members, TUSOCO also needs to focus on becoming financially sustainable on the longer term. Recommendations of the Agriterra liaison officer and consultant Geert van Weert (who executed two advisory missions in 2007) have clearly been taken into consideration by TUSOCO in their plan for 2009, which is part of their 3-year strategic plan. The first draft of their buisness plan towards financial autonomy is ready, and should be put into practice in 2009 by starting a commercial branch that markets and sells the tourism products of its members.

TUSOCO has translated this objective into the following specific objectives:
1. Support organisational and institutional development of its members by strengthening their collective capacity to make them able to manage a community-based enterprise.
2. Turn its members into role-models for community based nature conservation and local heritage preservation and management.
3. Adequately support its members in reaching a satisfactory quality and security level for receiving tourists.
4. Effectively promote the tourism products of its members by developing innovative tourist-packages that include routes which visit several communities. Sales will be promoted by starting a commercial branch.

The total budget for 2009 is € 167.731,86 of which:
€ 7.922,14 is financed by members of TUSOCO
€ 120.284,14 is requested from Agriterra
€ 39.525,58 is requested from FDH Italy and France and from the French Embassy.
GOALS
Promover el turismo solidario comunitario en Bolivia como modelo de organización de comunidades campesinas y/o indígenas; fortaleciendo capacidades en la conservación del medio ambiente, en la revalorización del patrimonio cultural e histórico y sobretodo como estrategia de desarrollo socioeconómico sostenible para poblaciones del área rural.