• Ensuring gender and social justice:
  improving governance, raising awareness about rights based approaches; redressing grievances and legally upholding and protecting rights of all citizens of the region; preserving identities  and guaranteeing dignity for all especially of marginalized, and deprived groups including indigenous people and persons with disabilities; integrating all aspects of the right to life, particularly for vulnerable sections (women and children) by ensuring access to food, health, education and work; promoting tolerance and peace education; providing crisis interventions like shelter and sensitive counsel for conflict survivors; revitalizing existing shelters and safety mechanisms; documenting lives of vulnerable groups (women and children) affected by conflict; directly reducing violence against women; promoting gender equality; facilitating women’s participation in policy matters.
   
• Fostering youth development and action:
  alternative and inclusive education and training programmes for young people to prepare them for success at the workplace; strengthening life skills , exploring creativity and contributing to positive thinking and leadership qualities; creating spaces to learn about advocacy, dialogue, exchange, networking and negotiating on issues faced by the youth.
   
• Enhancing natural resources and linked livelihoods:
  addressing environmental concerns like management and protection of natural resources; restoring ecological imbalances; innovating for new eco-friendly livelihoods, especially for women and youth through related skill building; engaging with corporate sector for discourse and action in areas like information & communication technology, business and knowledge processing, media & mass communication, hospitality, travel and eco- tourism, hotel management, horticulture, floriculture, food processing & preservation, indigenous cuisine etc.
   
• Promoting regional arts and culture:
  using indigenous art & culture as tools of social transformation for larger audiences through performing arts, posters, films, folklore etc.; documentation and dissemination of new and traditional creative art forms and expressions; preserving and improving livelihoods of artists; involving audiences within and beyond the region and fostering regional solidarity and understanding.

This is an illustrative but not exhaustive list of likely activities that FST will prioritize for support.