Reports

This project is to announce to the Nationalities colleges and Universities, and other Nationalities high schools and middle schools to participate in the women’s writing competition held by Shem Women’s Group. Then select the 12 best pieces of women’s writing in Tibetan and give awards to them at the Awarding Ceremony.

Winrock International-Tserang funded this project

What?/Who? To announce to the Nationalities colleges and Universities, and other Nationalities high schools and middle schools to participate in the women’s writing competition held by Shem Women’s Group. Then select the 12 best pieces of women’s writing in Tibetan and give awards to them at the Awarding ceremony.

Photos of the project Implementation

The project managers are announcing at North West University in Lanzhou and Lhasa Tibet University

Project manager Lugyal is organizing the participants’ articles

After the judges have finished grading the articles, the project managers had meetings with the judges to select winners from the ties(when the judges came up with grading same scores for the articles), and also discussed about how to hand in the articles to the last round of judges.

The participants’ articles in the process of organizing

The winners of Snow-land Women’s Writing Competition got their awards

Famous female writer Pematso is giving her speech about encouraging women to write more, have more women writers, and how sad it is to see that there is only her sitting among all the male Tibetan famous writers.

One of the project managers, Gongbojyi is introducing the process of the project design, funds, implementation, and its goal to the audience.

Participants of Snowland Women’s Writing Competition Ceremony

Project summary

Project title: Snow-land Women’s Writing Competition

Project goal: The immediate goal of this project is to announce to the nationalities colleges and universities, and other nationalities high schools and middle schools to participate in the women’s writing competition held by Shem Women’s Group. Then select 12 best writings and give awards to the winners on the Awarding Ceremony. The overarching goal of this project is to empower more Tibetan women to write their life stories, ideas, and to value education. Moreover, this project also encourages more people to value women’s education on the Tibetan Plateau.

Location of the project: This project was held in Xining City, the capital of Qinghai Province, China.

Total beneficiaries: More than 300 participants attended the awards ceremony, 205 girls participated and the 12 award winners directly benefited.

Implementation organization/individual, Gongbojyi, Lugyal, and Shem Women’s Group

Contact Group: Shem Women’s Group

Funds received: Source, Amount, and Date Received

Source	Date	Amount of RMB that Shem Received from donor	Source	Date	Amount of RMB that Gongbojyi and Lugyal Received from Shem
Winrock	2010-11-12	20500	Shem	2010-11-17	16400
			Shem	2011-1-06	4000
Winrock	2011-1-21	20500	Shem	2011-1-21	5000
			Shem	2011-3-08	10000
			Shem	2011-3-28	5000
Winrock	2011-4-1	5000	Shem	2011-4-2	5000
			Shem	2011-4-3	5000
Winrock	2011-6-1	5349.5		2011-7-18	1951
Total		51349.5			52351

Note: Shem covered the extra cost of 1001.5RMB of the actual cost. The detail of Shem’s contribution can be seen in the project finance section.

Details of the project activities

July-August 2010

The project managers traveled to different schools and places, carried out certain research about the female students, and announced the upcoming competition at the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011.

At the end of October and beginning of November
The project managers announced the deadline for receiving articles, and started to collect the articles

From November 11^th -21^st 2010

Sort out the articles (Input hand written articles to the computer), and selected the first round of judges

November 25^th 2010

Selected the first 50 best articles

From late November to the end of December 2010

1. Finished the first round of selection and started second round of selection

2. Worked on project progress report, financial reports with receipts, and further plans for the project

From March 1^st –April 2^st 2011

1. Worked on the reports from February for collecting the second round selected articles
2. Started the last round of selection
3. Collect the scores that the judges given for the articles
4. Organized the scores that the articles got from different judges
5. Told the winners about the ceremony
6. Told the judges about the announcement and sent invitation letters to them and other Tibetan media companies, newspaper/magazine companies, etc.
7. Reserved hotels and ceremony space
8. Prepared the ceremony
9. Welcome the judges, reporters and competition participants from Lhasa, Gansu, Sichuan.

10. Arrange their accommodation, food

On April 3^rd 2011

The ceremony was held in Kojima Base in Xining City, Qinghai Province

From April 4^th –June 1^st 2011

Worked on reports and published the book of articles

Project Finance

Actual Cost

	Item	Donor Contribution	Shem Contribution	Total
Articlecollectors	Book publication fee	16000	2000	18000
	Transportation	2237		2237
	Meal	1753.9		1753.9
	Lodging	3176		3176
Judges	Meals	1998		1998
Award Ceremony	Transportation	7156.6		7156.6
	Lodging	5555		5555
	Meals	7722		7722
During the Project implementation	Communications	610		610
	Postage	227		227
	Award cups, certificate books	440	934	1374
	Cash Award for the 12 winners		14000	14000
	Banners, gifts, nametags, and khadaks	1370		1370
	Papers, tapes, pens	211	11.3	222.3
	Space rental	1600		1600
	Printing materials	1293.5		1293.5
	CDs		1754.7	1754.7
Total		51350	18700	70050

Note. The 18000RMB was for the project manager’s salaries, but the project managers decided to use this money to publish the books and produce CDs of the ceremony.

Detailed Finance

Expenses in November

Date	Receipt Number	Numberof Receipts	Items	Price in RMB
LABOR ALLOWANCE
2010.11.20	A0001	1	项目人员贡保吉工资	2500
2010.11.20	A0002	1	项目人员勒加工资	2500
			subtotal	5000
TRAVEL AND PER DIEM
2010.11.21	A0072	2	交通费	140
2010.11.21	A0073	1	住宿费	90
2010.11.21	A0074	1	餐费	100
			subtotal	330
			Total	5,330.00

Expenses in December

Date	Receipt Number	Numberof Receipts	Items	Price in RMB
LABOR ALLOWANCE
2010.12.20	A001	1	项目人员贡保吉工资	2500
2010.12.20	A002	1	项目人员勒加工资	2500
			subtotal	5000
ITRAVEL AND PER DIEM
2010.11.29	A003	1	送第一次评选参赛作文的交通费		77
2010.11.29	A004	1	餐费		10
2010.11.29	A005	6	住宿费		60
2010.12.20	A006	2	送第一次参赛作文的交通费		55
2010.12.21	A008	2	餐费		20
2010.12.22	A009	4	送第一次参赛作文的交通费		86
2010.12.22	A010	1	餐费		50
2010.12.22	A011	1	住宿费		150
2010.12.23	A012	1	餐费		10
2010.12.23	A013	7	住宿费		140
2010.12.24	A014	1	出租车		10
2010.12.24	A015	1	餐费		60
2010.12.24	A016	1	住宿费		90
2010.12.25	A017	1	住宿费		120
2010.12.26	A018	5	交通费		86
2010.12.28	A020	1	餐费		50
2010.12.29	A022	2	餐费		20
2010.12.30	A024	2	餐费		20
2010.12.31	A026	1	餐费		100
			subtotal		1214
OTHER DIRECT COSTS
2010.12.28	A019	2	打印复印费		390.5
2010.12.29	A021	1	文件夹，打印纸		60
2010.12.29	A023	1	电话费		60
2010.12.31	A025	1	快递运费		81
			subtotal		591.5
			Total		6,805.50

Date	Receipt Number	Numberof Receipts	Items	Price in RMB
LABOR ALLOWANCE
2011.1．29	A000	1	项目人员贡保吉工资	2500
2011.1.29	A000	1	项目人员勒加工资	2500
			subtotal	5000
TRAVEL AND PER DIEM
2011.1.1	A001	2	餐费	20
2011.1.2	A002	3	餐费	25
2011.1.3	A003	1	出租费	10
2011.1.3	A004	2	餐费	20
2011.1.3	A005	2	交通费	60
2011.1.3	A006	1	餐费	10
2011.1.4	A007	6	住宿费	60
2011.1.4	A009	1	饮食费	5.9
2011.1.4	A010	1	出租费	2
2011.1.4	A011	1	餐费	13
2011.1．5	A012	6	住宿费	60
2011.1.5	A013	1	餐费	10
2011.1.4	A014	1	餐费	10
2011.1.4	A015	1	餐费	10
2011.1.5	A016	1	餐费	50
2011.1．5	A017	1	出租费	10
2011.1.5	A018	1	餐费	10
2011.1.5	A019	1	交通费	60
2011.1.5	A020	1	餐费	50
2011.1.6	A021	6	住宿费	60
2011.1.6	A022	2	出租费	4
2011.1．6	A023	2	餐费	20
2011.1.6	A024	1	餐费	50
2011.1．7	A025	1	住宿费	136
2011.1.7	A026	1	出租费	2
2011.1.7	A028	3	交通费	34
2011.1.10	A029	1	交通费	16.5
2011.1.10	A030	1	餐费	10
2011.11	A031	6	住宿费	60
2011.1.12	A032	3	交通费	30
2011.1.12	A033	1	交通费	16.5
2011.1.12	A034	1	餐费	50
2011.1.13	A035	6	住宿费	60
2011.1.13	A036	4	交通费	132
2011.1.13	A037	1	餐费	10
2011.1.14	A038	1	餐费	100
2011.1.15	A040	1	餐费	96.9
2011.1.18	A042	4	交通费	86
2011.1.18	A043	2	餐费	25
2011.1.19	A044	1	住宿费	50
2011.1.19	A045	1	出租费	10
2011.1.19	A046	1	出租费	10
2011.1.19	A047	1	出租费	10
2011.1.19	A048	1	餐费	50
2011.1.20	A049	1	出租费	50
2011.1.20	A050	1	出租费	10
2011.1.20	A051	1	出租费	10
2011.1.20	A052	1	出租费	10
2011.1.20	A053	2	餐费	40
2011.1.20	A054	3	交通费	153
2011.1.20	A055	1	餐费	50
2011.1.20	A056	3	交通费	126
2011.1.20	A057	1	餐费	50
2011.1.21	A058	1	出租费	10
2011.1.21	A059	1	出租费	10
2011.1.21	A060	1	出租费	10
2011.1.21	A061	1	出租费	10
2011.1.21	A062	1	餐费	10
2011.1.21	A063	1	餐费	20
2011.1.21	A064	1	出租费	10
2011.1.21	A065	1	出租费	10
2011.1.21	A066	1	出租费	10
2011.1.21	A067	1	餐费	50
2011.1.21	A068	1	出租费	10
2011.1.21	A069	1	出租费	10
2011.1.21	A070	1	餐费	100
2011.1.22	A071	3	交通费	118.2
2011.1.22	A072	1	出租费	10
2011.1.22	A073	1	出租费	10
2011.1.22	A074	1	出租费	10
2011.1.22	A075	2	餐费	40
2011．1.22	A076	4	餐费	300
2011.1.23	A077	1	出租费	10
2011.1.23	A078	1	出租费	10
2011.1.23	A079	1	出租费	10
2011.1.23	A080	1	出租费	10
2011.1.23	A081	1	出租费	10
2011.1.23	A082	1	出租费	10
2011.1.23	A083	6	餐费	300
2011.1.23	A084	12	餐费	480
2011.1.23	A085	8	餐费	365
2011.1.23	A086	1	住宿费	1780
2011.1.24	A087	2	餐费	40
2011.1.24	A088	3	交通费	71.5
2011.1.25	A089	1	交通费	60
2011.1.27	A090	1	交通费	61.3
2011.1.24	A091	1	出租费	10
2011.1.24	A092	3	餐费	25
2011.1.24	A093	1	出租费	10
2011.1.24	A094	5	交通费	86
2011.1.24	A095	2	餐费	55
2011.1.25	A096	1	餐费	102
2011.1.27	A098	1	饮食费	190.5
2011.1.27	A099	2	交通费	120
2011.1.27	A100	2	餐费	200
2011.1.28	A101	1	出租费	2
2011.1.28	A102	2	餐费	100
2011.1.28	A103	1	出租费	2
2011.1.28	A104	1	餐费	50
2011.1.29	A105	6	住宿费	60
2011.1.29	A106	2	往返交通费	32
			subtotal	7144.3
OTHER DIRECT COSTS
2011.1.4	A008	1	参赛作文复印费	18
2011．1.7	A027	2	电话费	30
2011.1.15	A039	1	参赛作文专递邮件费	23
2011.1.17	A041	1	发票扫描费	20
2011.126	A097	2	电话费	70
			subtotal	161
			Total	12305.3

Expenses in February

Date	Receipt Number	Numberof Receipts	Items	Price in RMB
LABOR ALLOWANCE
2011.2．28	A000	1	项目人员贡保吉工资	500
2011.2.28	A001	1	项目人员勒加工资	500
			subtotal	1000
TRAVEL AND PER DIEM
2011.2.20	A002	1	交通费	18
2011.2.21	A003	5	住宿费	50
2011.2.24	A006	2	交通费	18
2011．2.25	A007	3	住宿费	150
2011.2.25	A008	3	交通费	142
2011.2.28	A009	1	饮食费	98.6
			subtotal	476.6
OTHER DIRECT COSTS
2011.2.22	A004	1	电话费	50
2011.2.22	A005	1	电话费	50
2011.2.28	A010	1	邮递费	21
2011.2.28	A011	1	扫描费	52
2011.2.23	A012	1	邮递费	35
2011.2.2.26	A013	1	打印费	110
			subtotal	318
			Total	1794.6

Expenses (partially in October and November), and expenses in March and April

Date	Receipt Number	Numberof Receipts	Items	Price in RMB
2010.10.22	Oct A001	6	住宿费	60.00
2010.10.23	Oct A002	6	住宿费	60.00
2010.10.23	Oct A003	2	交通费	120.00
2010.10.23	Oct A004	3	餐费	30.00
2010.10.27	Oct A006	1	餐费	50.00
2010.10.28	Oct A007	3	餐费	15.00
2010.10.29	Oct A008	3	餐费	11.00
2010.10.30	Oct A009	1	餐费	100.00
2010.11.03	Oct A011	1	出租费	10.00
2010.11.07	Oct A012	2	交通费	140.00
2010.11.08	Oct A013	1	住宿费	90.00
2010.11.08	Oct A014	1	餐费	100.00
2010.11.09	Oct A015	1	出租费	10.00
2010.11.09	Oct A016	1	餐费	50.00
2010.11.09	Oct A017	2	出租费	20.00
2010.11.10-11.13	Oct A018	6	餐费	185.00
2010.11.13	Oct A019	2	餐费	15.00
2010.11.14	Oct A020	2	餐费	20.00
2010.11.15	Oct A022	2	餐费	105.00
2010.11.16	Oct A023	2	餐费	22.00
2010.11.16	Oct A024	1	住宿费	200.00
2010.11.16	Oct A025	1	餐费	100.00
2010.11.17	Oct A026	4	餐费	85.00
2010.11.17	Oct A027	1	住宿费	100.00
2010.11.18	Oct A028	3	交通费	80.00
2010.11.18	Oct A029	1	餐费	10.00
2010.11.19	Oct A030	1	餐费	10.00
2010.11.18	Oct A031	1	住宿费	200.00
2010.11.20	Oct A032	1	交通费	309.00
2010.11.22	Oct A033	2	餐费	150.00
2010.11.22	Oct A034	4	住宿费	50.00
2010.11.22	Oct A035	3	出租费	30.00
2010.11.22	Oct A036	1	餐费	50.00
2010.11.22	Oct A037	2	去拉萨的交通费（返回）	468.00
2010.11.24	Oct A038	2	出租费	20.00
2010.11.24	Oct A039	2	餐费	150.00
2010.11.25	Oct A040	1	餐费	200.00
2010.11.25	Oct A041	3	出租费	30.00
2010.11.26	Oct A042	1	餐费	100.00
2010.11.25	Oct A043	1	餐费	50.00
2010.11.26	Oct A044	2	出租费	20.00
2010.11.26	Oct A045	1	餐费	200.00
2010.11.26	Oct A046	4	出租费	40.00
2010.11.27	Oct A047	2	餐费	70.00
2010.11.27	Oct A048	2	出租费	20.00
2010.11.27	Oct A049	1	餐费	100.00
2010.11.28	Oct A050	3	餐费	15.00
2010.11.28	Oct A051	1	餐费	100.00
2010.11.28	Oct A052	2	出租费	20.00
2010.11.28	Oct A053	1	餐费	100.00
2010.11.29	Oct A054	2	出租费	20.00
2010.11.29	Oct A055	4	餐费	20.00
2010.11.29	Oct A056	2	出租费	20.00
2010.11.29	Oct A057	1	餐费	50.00
2010.11.30	Oct A058	2	出租费	20.00
2010.11.29	Oct A059	5	出租费	50.00
2010.11.30	Oct A060	4	餐费	160.00
2011.03.02	A001	1	饮食费	40.00
2011.03.03	A002	1	中午餐费	10.00
2011.03.03	A003	1	晚饭	10.00
2011.03.04	A007	1	出租费	10.00
2011.03.07	A008	2	交通费	66.00
2011.03.07	A009	4	出租费	40.00
2011.03.07	A010	1	食品费	105.00
2011.03.08	A011	2	出租费	20.00
2011.03.04	A012	1	餐费	136.00
2011.03.07	A013	2	交通费	80.00
2011.03.08	A014	5	住宿费	140.00
2011.03.07	A015	1	交通费	16.00
2011.03.08	A016	2	交通费	80.00
2011.03.08	A018	2	餐费	20.00
2011.03.11	A019	2	交通费	68.00
2011.03.14	A022	2	餐费	15.00
2011.03.15	A023	1	餐费	50.00
2011.03.16	A024	1	餐费	5.00
2011.03.20	A026	1	交通费	70.00
2011.03.21	A027	3	出租费	30.00
2011.03.21	A028	3	交通费	78.00
2011.03.21	A029	2	餐费	20.00
2011.03.22	A031	2	出租费	20.00
2011.03.23	A032	1	餐费	100.00
2011.03.23	A035	11	出租费	96.00
2011.03.23	A036	1	餐费	20.00
2011.03.24	A038	2	餐费	20.00
2011.03.24	A039	2	交通费	66.00
2011.03.24	A040	1	出租费	10.00
2011.03.24	A041	4	出租费	40.00
2011.03.24	A042	1	餐费	50.00
2011.03.25	A043	2	餐费	10.00
2011.03.25	A044	4	出租费	40.00
2011.03.26	A045	6	交通费	106.00
2011.03.27	A047	4	出租费	40.00
2011.03.27	A048	1	餐费	50.00
2011.03.28	A049	1	餐费	10.00
2011.03.28	A051	3	出租费	30.00
2011.03.28	A052	1	餐费	100.00
2011.03.29	A053	2	出租费	20.00
2011.03.29	A054	2	交通费	10.00
2011.03.29	A055	1	餐费	100.00
2011.03.29	A056	2	交通费	10.00
2011.03.29	A057	2	餐费	12.00
2011.03.29	A059	3	交通费	20.00
2011.03.29	A060	2	餐费	77.00
2011.03.29	A061	2	餐费	20.00
2011.03.30	A062	5	出租费	50.00
2011.03.30	A064	1	出租费	10.00
2011.03.30	A065	4	住宿费	80.00
2011.03.30	A066	2	出租费	20.00
2011.03.30	A067	6	餐费	64.00
2011.03.31	A069	1	餐费	50.00
2011.03.31	A070	1	出租费	10.00
2011.03.31	A071	1	交通费	10.00
2011.03.31	A072	4	交通费	146.00
2011.03.31	A073	4	交通费	486.00
2011.03.31	A074	1	餐费	20.00
2011.03.31	A076	1	餐费	50.00
2011.04.01	A078	1	出租费	10.00
2011.04.01	A079	1	餐费	10.00
2011.04.01	A081	1	出租费	10.00
2011.04.01	A082	3	餐费	20.00
2011.04.01	A083	4	交通费	1046.00
2011.04.02	A084	2	交通费	143.00
2011.04.02	A085	2	交通费	66.00
2011.04.02	A086	2	交通费	68.60
2011.04.02	A087	1	交通费	500.00
2011.04.02	A088	1	餐费	658.00
2011.04.03	A089	6	出租费	60.00
2011.04.03	A090	1	饮食费	181.00
2011.04.03	A092	1	餐费	1348.00
2011.04.03	A093	1	餐费	965.00
2011.04.04	A094	1	食品费	230.00
2011.04.04	A095	1	交通费	58.00
2011.04.04	A096	2	交通费	68.00
2011.04.04	A097	1	餐费	100.00
2011.04.04	A098	1	出租费	10.00
2011.04.05	A099	1	餐费	206.00
2011.04.05	A100	1	住宿费 30个晚上，10个标间，请看word文件）	4575.00
2011.04.06	A101	2	出租费	20.00
2011.04.06	A102	4	交通费	136.00
2011.04.07	A103	6	交通费	1484.00
2011.04.07	A104	1	饮食费	192.00
2011.04.10	A105	3	交通费	60.00
2011.04.10	A106	1	出租费	10.00
2011.04.10	A107	2	餐费	15.00
2011.04.08	A109	1	出租费	10.00
2011.04.12	A110	4	交通费	152.00
2011.04.11-15	A111	1	餐费	210.00
			subtotal	20433.60
OTHER DIRECT COSTS
2010.10.28	Oct A005	1	参赛作文打印和复印费	500.00
2010.11.03	Oct A010	1	奖品	420.00
2010.11.14	Oct A021	1	复印费	22.00
2011.03.03	A004	1	邮费	21.00
2011.03.04	A005	1	邮费	25.00
2011.03.04	A006	1	项目工具费，胶带，请看sheet3，	40.00
2011.03.08	A017	1	电话费	100.00
2011.03.14	A020	1	发票扫描费	26.00
2011.03.14	A021	1	邮费	21.00
2011.03.17	A025	2	胸卡	160.00
2011.03.22	A030	1	评委会礼品	750.00
2011.03.23	A034	1	打印费	7.50
2011.03.23	A033	1	电话费	100.00
2011.03.24	A037	1	电话费	50.00
2011.03.27	A046	1	购买哈达费	260.00
2011.03.28	A050	1	彩色打印费	15.00
2011.03.29	A058	1	横幅	200.00
2011.03.30	A063	1	电话费	100.00
2011.04.01	A075	1	复印费	40.00
2011.04.01	A080	1	荣誉证书	20.00
2011.04.03	A091	1	会议室费	1600.00
2011.04.12	A108	1	扫描费	32.00
2011.04.14	A112	6	洗照片费	171.00
			subtotal	4680.50
			Total	25114.10

Expenses of Shem

Cost share Billing List
Cash Prize		Amount of Cash award		Number of Awardee	Total
Reward for the Champion		3000.00		1.00	3000.00
Reward for the Second Place Prize		2500.00		2.00	5000.00
Reward for the Third Place Prize		1000.00		3.00	3000.00
Encouragement Reward		500.00		6.00	3000.00
Subtotal/小计					14,000
Other Prizes	price per item		Number of Items		Total
Award Cup	75.00		12.00		900.00
Envelopes	2.90		12.00		34.00
Papers and Pens					11.30
CDs					1754.70
Subtotal/小计					2700.00
LABOR ALLOWANCE/人力成本	Amount		Number of people		Total
Lejia and Gongbaoji	1000.00		2.00		2000.00
Subtotal/小计					2000.00
Total					18700.00

Original budget

Item	Number of Items	Price Per Item RMB	Total Cost RMB
Reward for the Champion	1 person	4000	4000
Reward for the Second Place Prize	2 people	2500	5000
Reward for the Third Place Prize	3 people	1000	3000
Encouragement Reward	5 people	500	2500
Lodging for article Collectors	12 days(3 people, 4 places stay for 3 days in each place)	193/night	2316
Meals for Article Collectors	36 times (3 people, 4 places)	52	1872
Transportation for Article Collectors	6 times (3 places, 3 people)	330	1980
Meals for judging panel	6 times (2 days,23 people)	333	1998
Lodging for Prize Givers and Lecture Givers, Government Leaders, and volunteers	27people for 4 days	40	4320
Meals for Prize Givers and Lecture Givers Government Leaders, and volunteers	12 times (27 people)	400	4800
Transportation fee for Prize Givers and Lecture Givers Government Leaders, and volunteers	27people	185	5000
Meeting Room	1	1500	1500
Video Camera (borrow)			1500
CD#	800	5	4000
Photo	350	5	1750
Certificate of Honor	11	50	550
Prize	11	150	1650
Phone cost for 3managers, taxi fee for picking up the guests			800
Other expenses (notifying, inscriptions, and volunteers’ certification)			650
Total			49,186

Note: The project cost more than we have budgeted before and all the detailed monthly expenses reveal the details of the expenses of the project and please see the receipts and time sheets of the project managers for clearer idea of the project expenses.

Delays, difficulties, and lessons learned

Delays and Difficulties

1. During the article selection time, it was difficult for the judges to check and grade the articles on time due to their busy schedules. Sometimes some judges couldn’t check, and the project managers had to look for other judges to replace them immediately in order to make the project flow successfully.
2. Since the project managers Gongbojyi and Lugyal were individual managers, and they were the ones who have been working in the fields announcing, collecting articles, and looking judges, deciding on the selection processes, and inviting the guests for the ceremony, they met many difficulties in these processes. An example is that they didn’t have a camera, printer, copy machine or internet They had to do all the monthly reports by borrowing cameras from others, printing, scanning receipts, and photocopying outside in the photo copy shops. They spent lots of time especially during the evening in internet bars for making reports. Another example is, during the second round of article selection, to give the articles to the judges, they photocopied more than 800 copies of articles to the judges, and during the third selection they photocopied more than 500 copies of articles.
3. During the project implementation, many small and cheap restaurants and hotels in rural areas do not have official receipts; the ones who have official receipts are advanced and expensive. But for the donor’s requirement we have to have official receipts, so we tried to look for cheaper restaurant and hotels with official receipts.
4. Since the project was designed in 2007, and the budget in 2010 was updated according to the budget of 2007, inflation has caused the budget to be very tight. So when the project managers collected articles or send articles to judges, in order to save money, they stayed with friends, slept on couches, and they walked to many judges and places instead of taking a cab a number of times.
5. During negotiation with the donor about this project, the donor didn’t agree with the cash award, and they wanted to give books or other things as award instead of cash for the award. We understand that the donor organization has their own rules for this kind of project, but as Shem, we also didn’t want the donors to change or influence the core idea of the project. Also, we designed this project to encourage more women to write, increase the number of female writers, and have women’s stories for people to read in this society. That’s why we wanted this very first women’s writing ceremony more elegant, expensive, and reputable. Due to these kinds of reasons, we value this project and a cash award is one of the main values of the project. So Shem decided to support the cash award.
6. Since this is the first time to have such a project, and first time to co-operate with Winrock, there were lots of financial rules and reports which needed to be submitted monthly. We had to spend lots of time on the reports and negotiation with the donor side and local manager’s side.
7. Since this is a women’s writing event, we wanted to have more famous female writers and female scholars to involve in this event, but due to the percentage of female writers are very low, plus not all of them are available for this event. Therefore we had to have more male judges for this event. Hopefully, in the future there will be more female scholars in this field.

Lessons Learned

The project manager Gongbojyi and Lugyal have learnt that if there is a clear goal, it can be achieved if you work on it. If you’re not afraid of the difficulties and continue the hard work, at the end you can not only achieve the goal but also it will be fruitful.

Specifically, they have learnt how to organize such a big project, the steps of implementing this project, how to organize receipts, etc. As Shem, we also learnt the same thing, we learnt how to make sure that what you are doing is what you wanted, and learnt a lot from the financial reports. We together also learnt the great experience of implementing such project from the beginning to the end, and that will reflect in the next round of project.

Interviews:

Tsekyilhamo, is a student from Tibet Medical in Lhasa, and she got the encouragement prize of Snow-land Women’s Writing Competition. She said that she likes to write, but is only published in few magazines and newspapers. “During this ceremony, I was not only able to meet many female writers and editors, but also learned writing experiences from them. Thank you very much for providing such a great stage for me and female writers like me. Hope to attend for future writing competitions and ceremonies”

The Rules for the judges:

Translation of Rules:

1. Judges must respect the rule of grading fairly for the articles
2. Judges must take the grading seriously
3. Judges must make sure the articles are written by the writer
4. Judges must pay attention to grammar and writing skills as well as the meaning of the article
5. Judges must pay attention to the quality and creativity of the writing
6. All the articles have a grading table and the judges give grades according to it
7. Judges must not contact the writers or other editors to discuss about the articles and grades
8. Judges must keep the grades secret from others

When articles are sent to the judges, all the articles should be printed with same font/ size of papers without name and any other clues, also the judges don’t know each other the who the other judges are.

Grading Table:

Name of the Judge
Article title/number
Grades	Meaning	Skills/grammar/words	Total

List of Awardees

Name	School	Award
Woshukjyi	Qinghai Tibetan Medical School(graduate student)	First
Balmogyal	Northwest University(graduate student)	Second
Meduk	Aba Prefecture Middle School (teacher)
Lhamokyi	Samtsa Chukhor School in Gannan (teacher)	Third
Longchokyi	Kangding Middle School in Ganzi, Sichuan
Medokjyi	Qinghai Normal University (graduate student)
Tsekyilhamo	Tibet Medical University	Encouragement
Tsewanglhamo	Lhasa Baltsek Tibetan Ancient Scripture Research (student)
Droljeekyi	Qinghai Normal University (student)
Samdrub Drolma	Qinghai Nationalities University (student)
Yudronmtso *	Xinghai Middle School in Hainan Prefecture, Qinghai (student)

Note: before we planned only to select from above college level, but her writing was great, so we wanted to encourage her too.

Thank You Letter

Translation of Thank You Letter

I am one of the participants of Snow Land Women’s Writing Competition. My name is Woshukjyi. This competition is the first and great event in Tibetan areas; this program created a stage for the girls to open their minds to great ideas, insights, writing skills and willingness of writing. It also helps girls to excavate their capabilities and revive their confidence.

Since I am one of the participants, I have strongly realized that this event has encouraged me to write more and continue in the future. Therefore, I would like to thank the implementing organization Shem Women’s Group, the project managers, and other people who helped to make this happen. I am planning to try my best to continue writing. Like Shem Women’s Group, I also would like to do something meaningful and helpful for my community and especially for those impoverished people in the future.

Woshukjyi

Date: December 6^th 2011

Receipts

November Receipts:

December Receipts

January Receipts

Original Proposal

Project Background
In order to improve Tibetan women’s writing skills, motivate Tibetan women to write more and build their self confidence, Hortsang Lhegel, Gonpojyi, and Pakmodrolma together started to hold the women’s writing forum. In 2007, they started a women’s forum and cultural preservation meeting that was attended by around 2000 people in Hezuo City, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. The second forum was held in Qinghai Nationalities University in Xining City, Qinghai Province. During these forums they invited famous women writers, teachers, and important people who really cared about women’s writings and women’s right. Participants also gave each other advice and feedback regarding the problems they faced. Participants and organizers were enthusiastic about continuing their work with Shem’s support.

Hortsang Lhegel (b. 1976) was born in Martang Village Labrang (Xia He in Chinese) County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, and China. He was not able to attend school due to his parents’ divorce and the mistreatment received from his step mother. In 1998 he realized the importance of Tibetan development and Tibetan history. He also realized the importance of education. He received teachings from a Lama in Labrang Monasteries in Labrang County, He then traveled to many different Tibetan areas to do research about Tibetan culture. Now he is the Executive Director of the Tibetan Folk Culture Research Group. He is also a member of Gannan Writer’s Organization, Qinghai Minorities Charity Fund, and is the Under-Secretary-General of Qinghai Buddhist Cultural Service Center. In addition, he has been the main manager of the First and the Second Tibetan Women Writer’s Forum in Hezuo and Xining. Hortsang Lhegel will be one of the main managers of this project.

Pakmodrolma (b. 1984) was born in Mangra County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. In 2001, she entered Qinghai Nationalities University, Xining, Qinghai Province. She has published over 20 articles in different magazines and newspapers. She was one of the main assistants for the First and Second Tibetan Women Writer’s Forum in Hezuo and Xining. Now she is pursuing a master’s degree in Qinghai Nationalities University. Pakodrolma will be one of the managers of this project.

Gonpojyi (b. 1983) was born in Luqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, and China. Since September, 2007 she has been studying for a master’s degree in North West University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province. Gonpojyi has published more than ten poems and several prose pieces, such as << Believe>>, << Welcome you>>, <<A Description of Tibetan Custom Wool Knitting>>, and so on. She was the editor for the <<Poetry Newspaper>> when she was in the college. Now she is one of the managers of Snow Land Women Newspaper, and Tibetan Women Writer’s Forum.

Problems

1. Lack of self-reliance
In Tibetan areas, since the students’ tuition is paid by their parents, students don’t need to worry about their tuition. Hence, the children and university students do not realize the difficulties of earning money. At the same time they tend to rely on their parents. Therefore, most of the students don’t pay much attention to self-reliance and hard struggles. Even after they graduate from the universities many of them stay at home, and their parents help them to find jobs.

2. Social expectations cause women to have fewer ambitions
Traditionally, most Tibetan families expect their daughters to be hardworking, gentle, and obedient. If the girl gets married with a nice man then the girl’s life is settled, and she ought to be happily ready for her new settled-down life. The parents show their love to their daughters by buying expensive ornaments and clothes rather than sending them to the school.

There is a famous saying that is: “The monks belong to monasteries, and girls should get married and stay with their husband’s family”. So the parents expect their daughters to get married with a nice man and get a nice job… They expect their daughters to get married in their twenties. Many parents don’t expect their daughters to continue their education after graduating, asking, “Are you going to study for your whole life?” People expect boys to be successful in studies and work, and they respect the boys who choose not to get married soon in order to study. Therefore, most women in college are not likely to strive toward successes in work and they are less likely to think about ambitious goals in their lives.

Regarding writing, generally, women hardly continue their writing after their graduation or after marriage. The few women writers who continue to write are looked down on and face difficulties getting the work published.

3. Most Tibetan women are not aware of importance of women’s health
Most women in Tibetan areas don’t have access to health education, information about hygiene and sex education. There are rarely Tibetan health books, newspapers and articles available. Therefore, Tibetan girls have very little awareness of health problems especially sex education

Benefits
The Writing Forum and the SWG writers’ award will encourage women to write more and will provide a space for women to express their ideas, difficulties, and successes. These activities will also have an important influence for encouraging more women to become writers. In addition, these events will help participants gain more knowledge and experience. Women will be inspired to accumulate more ambitions in their lives. Furthermore, this project will help these women realize that they can be more independent through writing.

This project will enable more girls to have access to more women’s writings and will be a model for the younger women generations to write more. This project will also encourage people to pay more attention to women’s writing.

In addition, this project will have a positive effect on Tibetan women’s health. These forums will also serve as a platform for women writers to discuss and publish information about health education, especially hygiene and sex education. At the same time, young girls and boys will have easier access to clear health information.

Number of Beneficiaries
This project will benefit more than 3,000 people.

Detailed Budget

Detailed Budget for the Third Snow Land Women’s Literature Forum in North West University.

Item	Number of Items	Price Per Item RMB	Total Cost RMB
Lodging for the speakers and organizers	10 people for 2 nights	90 RMB/ per person/ one night	1800
Transportation feeRoundtrip	10 people		1852
Meals for managers	12 times for 3 people	15 RMB/ person	540
Meals for volunteers, and important guests, camera man, driver	6 times for 40 people	15 RMB/ person	3600
Desserts and drinking for 43 people for 6days.			1254
Phone costs #	3 managers	100	300
Announcement fee			50
Conference Room	1	1000	1000
CD	1000	3	3000
Photo	63	5	315
#Other mana gement expenses (internet fee, taxi fee)			250
Total			13,961

Notes:

# Phone cost: is for the 3 managers from the beginning (which is from designing until the end of the implementation of the project), Shem Women’s Group and the 3 main project managers are in different areas and need to discuss and provide information to Shem Group through the phone and internet.

Project Steps for the Third Snow Land Women’s Literature Forum in North West University

1. Talk to the female teachers (Huamao, Tsering Tso and Wanmatso) and writers (Dekyidolma and Jamyangjyi) about their plan and ask them to give speech on the forum. (Done)

2. Discuss with Shem Women’s Group and ask them to write proposal and look for donors. (Done)

3. Look for the meeting hall, restaurant and hotels. (Done)

4. Prepare materials for the forum (such as speeches introducing the forum, reasons and goals of the forum, and the supporters of the forum) (Done)

5. Look for a cameraman and some one who takes video, (and borrow video and camera.) (Done)

6. Find out the budget and provide data and information to Shem. (Done)

7. Write proposal ( Shem Women’s Group) (Done)

8. Receive funds

9. Give announcement

10. Make a schedule for the forum.

11. Invite the teachers and writers who give presentation on the forum, and arrange their lodging, meals.

12. Start the forum, take video and photos

13. End the forum.

14. Write final report

15. Submit the final report with receipts

16. Make CDs

Detailed Budget for the Fourth Snow Land Women’s Literature Forum in South West University

Item	Number of Items	Price Per ItemRMB	Total Cost RMB
Lodging for the speakers and organizers	10 people for 2 nights 4 people for 1 night	90 RMB/ per person/ per night	2160
Transportation feeroundtrip	14 people		5660
Meals for the managers	15 times for 3people	15 RMB/ person	675
Meals for the supporters, volunteers, cameramen, drivers	9 times for 31people	15 RMB/ person	4185
Desserts			1446
Conference room	1	1000	1000
CD	1000	3	3000
Photo	48	5	240
Phone cost for the 3 managers #	3	180	540
Other management expenses (internet fee, taxi) #			250
Announcement fee			55
Total			19,211

# Phone cost: is for the three managers to communicate. As they live in different areas they need to discuss and plan over the phone/internet and also coordinate with Shem Women’s Group.

Project Steps for the Fourth Snow Land Women’s Literature Forum in South West University:

1. Talk to the female teachers (Baimatso, Tseringkyi) and writers (Dekyidolma and Wosartso) about their plan and ask them to give speech on the forum. (Done)

2. Make announcement for teachers in South West University in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. (Done)

3. Look for the meeting hall, restaurant and hotels. (Done)

4. Prepare materials for the forum (such as speeches introducing the forum, reasons and goals of the forum, and supporters of the forum) (Done)

5 Look for a cameraman and some one who takes video, (and borrow video and camera.) (Done)

6 Research budget and provide data and information to Shem. (Done)

7 Write proposal (Shem Women’s Group) (Done)

8 Receive funds

9 Project managers go to South West University in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province and make an announcement about the forum. 10

10 Make a schedule for the forum.

11 Invite teachers and writers to give presentations at the forum, and arrange their lodging, meals.

12 Start the forum and document with video and photos

13. End the forum.

14Write final report

15 Submit the final report with receipts

16 Make CDs of the forum

Detailed budget for the First Shem Women’s Group’s Literature Award Ceremony for women writers

Item	Number of Items	Price Per ItemRMB	Total Cost RMB
Reward for the Champion	1 person	6000	6000
Reward for the Second Place Prize	2 people	4000	8000
Reward for the Third Place Prize	3 people	2000	6000
Encouragement Reward	5 people	800	4000
Lodging for article Collectors	12 days (3 people, 4 places stay for 3 days in each place)	193/night	2316
Meals for Article Collectors	36 times ( 3 people, 4 places)	52	1872
Transportation for Article Collectors	6 times ( 3 places, 3 people)	330	1980
Lodging for the judging panel	20	90	1800
Meals for judging panel	6 times ( 2 days, 23 people)	333	1998
Transportation fee for the judging panel	23	140	3220
Lodging for Prize Givers and Lecture Givers, Government Leaders, and volunteers	30 people for 4 days	40	4800
Meals for Prize Givers and Lecture Givers Government Leaders, and volunteers	12 times (30 people)	600	7200
Transportation fee for Prize Givers and Lecture Givers Government Leaders, and volunteers	30 people	200	6000
Meeting Room	1	1500	1500
Video Camera (borrow)			1500
CD#	1000	5	5000
Photo	350	5	1750
Certificate of Honor	11	50	550
Prize	11	150	1650
Phone cost for 3managers, taxi fee for picking up the guests			800
Other expenses (notifying, inscriptions, and volunteers’ certification)			650
Total			68,586

#: This price is different from the last two forums because after the competition we would like to produce high quality CDs with covers.

Project steps for the First Shem Women’s Group’s Literature Rewards Ceremony for Women Writers

1. Hold meeting with the project managers about the forum. (Done)

2. Decide the style of writing for proposed competition. (Done)

3. Research budget (Done)

4. Choose location (Done)

5. Decide the date of the ceremony (Done)

6. Provide information to Shem for the proposal (Done)

7. Look for a cameraman and some one who takes video, (and borrow video and camera.) (Done)

8. Write proposal (Done)

9. Receive Funds

10. Make an announcement to all the Tibetan Areas mostly colleges in Gansu Province, Sichuan, Qinghai Province and in Tibet.

11. Collect articles

12. Article Selection Section:

a) Select 100 good articles by some Tibetan University teachers and writers

b) Select 50 better articles by Tibetan professors and famous writers

c) Tibetan famous scholars and writers, will select 11 best articles in Xining City Qinghai Province, China

d) Re-confirm date and location of ceremony

13. Give announcement

14. Choose famous, respected people for giving speeches and presenting rewards

15. Select 20 volunteers to help during the ceremony

16. Prepare materials for the ceremony (such as name tag, make schedule, and prepare the loud speaker .etc)

17. Hold the “First Shem Women’s Group’s Literature Rewards Ceremony for women writers” for two days

18. Take Record (photos, video)

19. Conclusion

20. Write final report

21. Submit the final report with receipts

22. Make CDs

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