Partners

Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples Development Project (CIPDP) is the Ogiek of Mt. Elgon’s indigenous peoples’ community organisation working to support the Ogiek community regain their ability to sustain and be sustained by their ancestral lands at Mt. Elgon, Kenya. 

Indigenous Information Network (IIN) works on development issues that impact Indigenous Peoples and local communities with a main focus on women, children, youth and other vulnerable members of our communities. IIN recognizes that “conservation and protection of Our Environment is key since it is that environment we depend on for survival”. 

Partners for Indigenous Knowledge Philippines, Inc. (PIKP) is a learning network of indigenous knowledge holders, organizations, researchers, writers, educators, artists, and individuals in the Philippines with initiatives on promoting and strengthening indigenous knowledge.  

Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand Association (IMPECT) is an indigenous non-governmental development organisation founded and staffed entirely by representatives of the indigenous groups and networks involved in the Association. 

The Pgakenyaw Association for Sustainable Development (PASD) is an organisation established in 2009 by Pga k’nyau (Karen) community leaders, NGOs, and concerned academics. It works to revitalise traditional learning processes and encourage the transmission of traditional knowledge to the new generation. 

The Wampis Indigenous Nation formed their Autonomous Territorial Government (GTANW) in 2015 to govern, manage and protect their territory, which covers 1,327,760 hectares of lowland rainforest across the Santiago/Kanus and Morona/Kankaim river basins in the northern Peruvian Amazon. 

CHIRAPAQ’s mission is to generate conditions for a dignified life for indigenous peoples through proposals that facilitate the continuity and development of indigenous life systems, the promotion of organisational and formative processes for assertive and proactive action, advocacy in national and international policies and the positioning of culture and communication for the development of critical interculturality. 

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS) is an academic research group based in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford working to address the challenges that humanity faces in halting the decline of global biodiversity. 

The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) works at the interface of science, policy and practice to tackle the global crisis facing nature and support the transition to a sustainable future for people and the planet. 

The Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) is a regional organization founded in 1992 by indigenous peoples’ movements. AIPP is committed to the cause of promoting and defending indigenous peoples’ rights and human rights and articulating issues of relevance to indigenous peoples. 

LifeMosaic is an organisation dedicated to connecting grassroots experiences across continents, sharing stories from the frontline of the social and environmental crises, and inspirational stories and strategies to build skills, hope and resilience. 

Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) is an international human rights organisation that has been working with indigenous and forest peoples since 1990. It works in 20 countries across South and Central America, Africa, and Southeast Asia, with partners based in and around the tropical forest belt. FPP’s mission is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in securing their rights to traditional lands and protecting their increasingly threatened forests and ways of life.