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...

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...

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...

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.

The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. The IPCB provides educational and...

Founded in 1977 by the late Eben Hopson of Barrow, Alaska, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has flourished and grown into a major international non-government organization representing approximately 180,000 Inuit of Alaska...

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...

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...

Samburu Women Trust are an indigenous women-led organisation that champions the rights of women and girls among indigenous communities through strengthening and supporting their capacity and agency to influence policies...

Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid.

The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) provides natural resource management expertise, conservation enforcement, legal and policy analysis, and public information services in support of the exercise of...