Indigenous Peoples Organizations

Community Empowerment & Development Action (CEDA) is a Non-governmental, Non-political and Non-profit association. Our primary goals is to sensitize the devastated Somali community on various aspects including Health, Peace...

50 years ago our community was forcibly evicted from our homeland, The Chagos Islands, by the British Government to make way for a United States military base. We were exiled to the Seychelles and Mauritius where we have...

COPORWA is a non-governmental organization for the Community of Potters of Rwanda. COPORWA was created in May 1995 to defend and protect the rights of the Potter community, also known as Historically Marginalized People (HMP)...

Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT) is a grassroots indigenous organization that works with and on behalf of communities within the greater Turkana basin to demand collective social, economic, cultural, environmental, and...

The Indigenous Heartland Organization (IHO) was formulated and registered in Tanzania as a nonprofit making organization, to facilitate the empowerment and development of indigenous people living in or adjacent to protected...

The Nyae Nyae Development Foundation Namibia (NNDFN) is a non-governmental organisation working with San communities in Namibia.

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...

Tamaynut is an Amazigh NGO. Since its creation in 1978, it has participated in the constitution of a modern and democratic civil society in Morocco. Its purpose is to defend and promote the inherent rights of the Amazighs, in...

IPACC is a network of 135 indigenous peoples’ organisations in 21 African countries. This makes it the largest indigenous peoples’ network in the world. IPACC was legally founded in 1997 when a draft constitution was adopted...

The United Organisation for Batwa Development in Uganda is a Batwa-directed, community-based organisation headquartered in Kisoro, Uganda. Our sole purpose is to assist the Batwa in improving their lives so they may live on...