Project Description_58_The Sichuan Market Development Project(SMD) is being implemented through Fukangda Health International. It aims toimprove livelihoods in ethnic Tibetan communities by working along value chainsthat play a key role in Tibetans’traditionallifestyle or which offer tangible opportunities for increased Tibetanparticipation. SMD helps integrate rural Tibetans’businesses into formal markets, and improve their livelihoods in a sustainableway. This is mainly done through a series of interventions at market, firm, andinvestment levels in and around the provincial capital of Chengdu in Sichuan,as well as in the ?provinces of Gansu, Qinghai, and Yunnan.