Indigenous Peoples Organizations

Development West Coast (DWC) was set up as a Charitable Trust in 2001 to manage, invest and distribute income from a fund of $92 million received from the Government. This fund was an adjustment package for the loss of...

YATAMA emerged in the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua in 1986 as the indigenous organization Yapti Tasba Masraka Nani Asla Takanka, (Organization of the Peoples of Mother Earth). YATAMA has participated in various elections since...