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Indigenous Peoples Organizations

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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...
Economic development Sustainable Development Education Climate change Kenya
AYT are an independent, non-partisan, development and advocacy organization. Founded in 2005, AYT is registered under the Trustees (Perpetual Succession) Act. AYT was created specifically to spearhead a Youth Led Development...
Youth Women's empowerment Economic development Climate change Regional Kenya
We are an activist women organization, founded in 1986, working to establish equality for women. We strive to develop women agency at the grass-roots and contribute bringing their voices to national, regional and...
Women's empowerment Education Rights & Advocacy Bangladesh
Africa’s ultimate eco-lodge, organic farm, and digital nomad oasis nestled in the heart of the Great Rift Valley; where traditional Maasai culture meets modern ingenuity and regenerative agriculture. Narok, Kenya
Agriculture Culture Kenya
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...
Economic development Culture Justice Climate change Kenya
Green Africa Foundation was founded in Kenya in 2000 with a focus of implementing practical hands-on community driven projects aimed at greening the African continent.
Climate change Natural resources & biodiversity Livelihoods Regional Kenya
The Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation — IMPACT — works in the Northern Frontiers of Kenya, home to a considerable proportion of Kenyan Indigenous Peoples. Our current projects are spread...
Rights & Advocacy Health Culture Livelihoods Capacity building Kenya
Indigenous Information Network (IIN) is a non-profit, volunteer-run non-governmental organization (NGO) registered in the Republic of Kenya. The organization was founded in 1996 by a group of professionals in response to...
Health Youth Women's empowerment Rights & Advocacy Natural resources & biodiversity Knowledge Kenya
Kenya Forest Service is a state corporation that was created through the Forest Act, 2005 (now repealed).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...
Sustainable Development Natural resources & biodiversity Kenya
Kenya Voluntary Development Association (KVDA) is an indigenous, non-political and membership organization which is non-sectarian and non-profit making started in 1962 as a work camp organization registered under the...
Culture Rights & Advocacy Economic development Capacity building Kenya
The Maleya Foundation is an indigenous peoples’ organization working on environment, climate change, human rights and development in Bangladesh, with focus on the rights of IPs.
Climate change Sustainable Development Rights & Advocacy Justice Bangladesh
MPIDO envisions a just and equitable society that recognize and upholds human rights and the fundamental freedom of indigenous peoples’. As indigenous people in Africa undergo political, economic and social challenges, MPIDO...
Livelihoods Climate change Natural resources & biodiversity Youth Women's empowerment Kenya