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Indigenous Peoples Organizations

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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
The ‡Khomani San community seeks to be “an empowered and vibrant community that values and is grounded in its culture and tradition, deriving optimal benefit from the various resources and assets owned by and available to it...
Culture Rights & Advocacy South Africa
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
Save Lamu's aim is to engage communities and stakeholders so as to ensure participatory decision-making, achieve sustainable and responsible development, and preserve the environmental, social and cultural integrity of the...
Sustainable Development Natural resources & biodiversity Culture Somalia
LEAP Africa is a youth-focused leadership development organization committed to raising leaders that will transform Africa; through interventions for young people, that bridges the gap in leadership, education, employability...
Youth Economic development Capacity building Leadership Education Regional
Maasai Cultural Heritage Center is committed to foster the knowledge about Maasai cultural heritage, and inspire the community to collect, archive, preserve, and celebrate art of cultural significant and indigenous knowledge...
Culture Knowledge
The Mayan League is a Maya organization whose purpose is to promote, preserve, and transmit the cosmovision and worldview, culture, history, and contributions of our ancestors and the values of our traditional knowledge and...
Culture United States
Mothers and Children Multisectoral Development Organization (MCMDO) is an indigenous, nongovernmental, nonprofit and humanitarian organization founded in 1997. MCMDO works to improve the lives of disadvantaged mothers and...
Women's empowerment Health Education Economic development Livelihoods Climate change Ethiopia
Non-profit union organization that represents the Lenca People.
Rights & Advocacy Culture Economic development Natural resources & biodiversity Honduras
The Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (AMPB) is an organisation facilitating the coordination and exchange of territorial authorities that administer or influence major forested areas of Mesoamerica. Indigenous...
Capacity building Rights & Advocacy Climate change
The Métis National Council works to support and enrich the lives of Métis people across the homeland. The Métis National Council is committed to working with its Governing Members, the Federal and Provincial governments, and...
Justice Rights & Advocacy Capacity building Canada
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