Indigenous Peoples Organizations

As a repository of traditional knowledge, our role has never been more important, as our planet faces major threats from environmental degradation and global warming. And to deal with it, we must act at all levels, in...

Founded in 1987, FOIRN represents 23 indigenous peoples from the Rio Negro, in an area that encompasses the municipalities of Barcelos, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro and São Gabriel da Cachoeira, in Amazonas.

FPP operates through two connected, but independent, organisations based in the United Kingdom (FPP UK) and the Netherlands (FPP NL), with a shared vision and mission. FPP’s teams have expertise in land rights, environment...

Forward Africa is a non-profit development organization founded in 1992 to strengthen the capacity of individuals, especially women and youth within the communities to respond to their identified basics needs, using resources...

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 Global Alliance of Territorial Communities is a coalition of Indigenous and community organizations from Asia, Mesoamerica and the Amazon Basin that advocates for the respect of their rights and the inclusion of forest...

We are a group of agrarian, indigenous, women's and civil society organizations that seek to defend the land rights of the people who live on it. We want to influence the formulation, modification and implementation of public...

Indigenous Lawyers Association of India (ILAI) established in 2020 is a platform of the lawyers belonging to indigenous peoples in India seeking to strengthen the enforcement of existing rights of indigenous peoples and...

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...

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...

The Indigenous Peoples’ Foundation for Education and Environment (IPF) was officially established by a joint effort of indigenous peoples’ leaders and local academics. Its main aim at that time was to build capacity for...