Indigenous Peoples Organizations

APAD focuses on the economic, environmental, education, climate change adaptation and social issues impacting the pastoralist communities of Turkana County, West Pokot County, and the cross-border regions of Ethiopia, South...

The Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon – COIAB, founded on April 19, 1989, is the largest regional indigenous organization in Brazil, which emerged on the initiative of leaders of existing...

Founded in 1987, FOIRN represents 23 indigenous peoples from the Rio Negro, in an area that encompasses the municipalities of Barcelos, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro and São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in Amazonas.

Kenya Forest Service is a state corporation that was created through the Forest Act, 2005 (now repealed). The Service derives her mandate from the Forest Conservation and Management Act (FCMA), 2016. Their mission relies on...

NIA’s main mandate and core business is facilitating community empowerment through capacity strengthening, influencing and brokering useful linkages. NIA has an impressive track record and experience in implementing community...

OPDP’s work is centred on promoting the recognition and identity of Indigenous peoples’ culture, the participation and inclusion of the communities in all sectors of development, championing for land rights, ensuring...

The Native Amazon Operation (OPAN) is the first indigenous organization founded in Brazil, in 1969. For 52 years, OPAN has been working to strengthen indigenous leadership in the regional scenario, valuing their culture and...

Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Kenya is the Kenyan country chapter of the PELUM Association and has a membership of 57 Member Organizations. PELUM Kenya network promotes agroecological principles and...

The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) is a non-aligned, non-political, not-for-profit Pan-African organisation headquartered in Nairobi, with a hosting agreement with the government of Kenya. The AAS’s vision is to see...