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Indigenous Peoples Organizations

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The Aleut International Association (AIA) is a not-for-profit corporation that represents the Indigenous peoples of Aleut descent in the United States and the Russian Federation. It was created by the Aleutian Pribilof...
Culture Natural resources & biodiversity United States Russia
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
Gwich’in Council International (GCI) represents 9,000 Gwich’in in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Yukon, and Alaska as a Permanent Participant in the Arctic Council; the only international organization where Indigenous...
Sustainable Development Natural resources & biodiversity Canada United States
The Hui Mālama O Ke Kai Foundation is a grassroots, community-based organization that inspires ongoing stewardship of our island and ocean resources.
Natural resources & biodiversity Education Sustainable Development United States
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
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...
Natural resources & biodiversity Sustainable Development Climate change Rights & Advocacy Culture United States
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...
Natural resources & biodiversity Sustainable Development Climate change Culture Rights & Advocacy Canada Russia United States Denmark
KAʻEHU is a nonprofit organization with the goal to restore the land and perpetuate traditional Hawaiian culture using a community-based, inclusive, family-oriented approach to environmental stewardship and sustainable...
Natural resources & biodiversity Sustainable Development Culture Economic development United States
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
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
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...
Natural resources & biodiversity Sustainable Development Rights & Advocacy Capacity building Kenya
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.
Natural resources & biodiversity Sustainable Development Climate change Health United States