Indigenous Communities

Call for Proposals for Non-Profit Indigenous Organizations Addressing Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests Through Video

Deadline: 30 January 2016

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is currently inviting indigenous organizations to submit a proposal to develop a video of maximum 10 minutes (preferably an animation video) on the practical use that Indigenous Peoples could make of the VGGT.

Objectives

The (animation) video should:

Highlight the role of the VGGT as a tool for Indigenous Peoples to use in land related matters
Turn into a tool that will enable Indigenous Peoples to learn about the VGGT (facilitating exchanges and discussions among them)
Bring to light the parts of the VGGT that are most relevant for indigenous peoples
Showcase good practices related to their application (e.g. registration of customary land rights of an indigenous community, development of new laws for the recognition and protection of the legitimate tenure rights of indigenous peoples, others)
Be of universal character (addressed to indigenous communities in different parts of the world)
Emphasize specific/key articles of the UNDRIP affirming rights to lands and resources, subsistence, redress and restitution, traditional knowledge, sacred sites, as well as Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
Reflect self-determination

Funding

The amount allocated for this call for proposals is US$ 12.000.

Eligibility Criteria

Non-profit Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations (women and youth’s organizations from all regions are encouraged to apply)
Interested non- indigenous and non-profit organizations are kindly asked to create a partnership with an indigenous organization and apply through them.
Preference will be given to:
- Indigenous organizations sending a 1 page describing the storyboard to be developed;
- Indigenous organizations explaining the video production technique they will use;
- Projects covering above mentioned objectives;
- Projects giving concrete examples;
- Projects making reference to some of the technical guidelines accompanying the Voluntary Guidelines.
  1. Gender
  2. Governance of forest tenure
  3. Free, Prior and Informed Consent
  4. Small scale fisheries tenure
  5. Agricultural Investments
- Applications should be submitted in English, French or Spanish.
- The video can be produced in any FAO official language (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian) or in an indigenous language with dubbing and/or subtitles.

How to Apply

Organizations are requested to submit abstracts and proposals via email.

For more information, please visit FAO.

The Indigenous Women’s Fund Promoting Well-Being of Women Worldwide

Deadline: 9 September 2015

The Indigenous Women’s Fund 3rd Call for Proposals is launched by International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI) on the occasion of the International Day of World’s Indigenous People.

The fund is seeking proposals that aim to promote the well-being and “buen vivir” of indigenous peoples, based on the principle of free, prior and informed consent.

Funding Information

AYNI Fund will provide a co-financing of USD 5,000.00 to support projects led by indigenous women for one year.

Priorities

Resourcing Women’s Rights
Religious Fundamentalism
Economic Justice
Women’s Human Rights Defenders
Young Feminist Activism

Thematic Areas

Education-Economic Empowerment
Access to Political Power
Institutional Strengthening

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants from all over the world are eligible to apply though priority will be given to applicants from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

How to Apply

Interested applicants can send their complete application forms at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit International Indigenous Women Fund.

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Celebrating International Day of Indigenous Peoples- A List of 12 Foundations Promoting Indigenous Peoples Rights around the World

August 9, 2015 is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People!! This day is a day to recognize and appreciate all indigenous cultures. The United Nations is also holding a variety of events around the globe!

This year’s theme puts a spotlight on the issue of indigenous peoples’ access to health care services, as improving indigenous peoples’ health remains a critical challenge for indigenous peoples.

Certain indigenous people are vulnerable to exploitation, marginalization and oppression by nation states formed from colonising populations or by politically dominant, different ethnic groups. In order to emphasize them, we have created a list of foundations supporting indigeneous communities worldwide in the areas of health, finance, poverty, justice, safety and much more to strengthen indigeneous people and communities around the world.

Please go through the list by clicking Next.

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The Global Greengrants Fund Protecting Indigenous People’s Right

The Global Greengrants Fund is a public charity that seeds environmental action through small grants. The Fund supports change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for justice, primarily in the developing world and emerging economies.

Global Greengrants Fund is committed to funding projects that are organized, led, and participated in by women. It support indigenous people to protect their lands and ways of life.

The Global Greengrants Fund provides small grants to grassroots groups for environmental justice primarily in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and island nations.

Thematic Areas

Human Rights – Women’s Voices, Indigenous Rights
Environment– Biodiversity Conservation, Climate Justice, Food & Agriculture, Water, Energy, Mining, Oil & Gas

Focus Countries

Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo DR, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote DIvoire (Ivory Coast), Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Secure Fund

The Foundation do not accept unsolicited grant proposals. It makes grants to organizations that have been recommended for funding through one of the advisory boards. Advisors work as volunteers to identify groups; to help allocate grantmaking funds among those groups; and to provide on-going mentoring and other assistance to the grantees.

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Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples

Seventh Generation Fund is an Indigenous identity-based organization dedicated to the self determination of Native Peoples . Seventh Generation Fund supports projects engaged in community empowerment and organizing endeavors, issue advocacy, cultural revitalization, strengthening Indigenous knowledge and practices, and Native leadership development, in the following program areas.

Program Areas

Arts & Cultural Expression: Promoting traditional, contemporary, and media art forms that express creativity, enhance tribal identity and cultural vitality, strengthen intergenerational cultural transmission, and recover tribal languages.
Environmental Health & Justice: Supporting frontline grassroots actions and advocacy for protecting and restoring ecosystems and reinforcing traditional stewardship relationships and practices with the land. This includes community-based efforts to revitalize traditional spiritual practices and life ways and to protect and preserve traditional sacred sites and religious freedom.
Sustainable Communities: Advancing community development and cohesion through food security/sovereignty methods, alternative and renewable energy, grassroots organizing, cultural healing and strategies for well-being that preserve, nurture and restore tribal life ways that advance Native Earth-based knowledge, cultural sustainability, and traditional practices.
Human Rights: Empowering Indigenous Peoples within local, national, and international arenas by building their knowledge base of human rights instruments, gaining experiential skills, and participating in negotiation, advocacy, and international diplomacy.
Intergenerational Leadership Initiative: Promoting and strengthening culturally-relevant, community-based training in leadership that strengthen, uphold, and honor Indigenous (tribal) identities, protocols, learning, sharing and core values, among diverse generations.
Women’s Leadership: Promoting and honoring the leadership role of Indigenous women by supporting female-initiated and led projects that advance the concerns and perspectives, and empower and build the capacity of Indigenous women and girls of all ages, in all arenas.

Types of Grants

Grant awards range from $600 to $5,000 per year. An organization may apply for one grant per fiscal year for Native initiated and led community based projects for the following purposes:

General Support
1. General operating costs
2. Seed funds to assist with establishing an emerging community based organization
Capacity building: Traveling Song Initiative (TSI) – In amounts of $500 or $1,500 or $2,500 for Indigenous Peoples’ participation in regional, national, and international meetings, advocacy and skills building opportunities.
Mini-grants – From $50 to $500 per year

Eligibility Criteria

Seventh Generation Fund supports Indigenous-initiated and Indigenous-led community-based organizations and projects aligned with priority areas. An eligible organization is defined as one that fulfills all of the following requirements:

Is a Native American / Indigenous Peoples’ initiative or project that accomplishes its work within the community it serves (reservation, rancheria, reserve, rural, urban, etc);
Is Indigenous / Native led – at a minimum 80% of its board of directors / leadership (policy and decision-makers) are Indigenous Peoples;
Has a majority Indigenous/Native American individuals on staff who are engaged at all levels of the organization / project, not solely as administrative or support staff, and,
Has an annual operating budget of less than $150,000
Seventh Generation Fund does not grant to individuals or missionary/proselytizing endeavors.

How to Apply

Applicants must send a complete grant application package including the following:

Cover Sheet
Proposal Narrative (no more than 6 pages)
501c3 – IRS non-profit tax determination letter or management letter from fiscal sponsor
Financial Information: Operating Budget for current fiscal year
List of other sources of funding – Indicate whether Pending or Approved and amounts
Leadership information, i.e. list of Board of Directors, indicating Indigenous affiliations
Staff and volunteer listing, indicating (where appropriate) Indigenous affiliations
Letters of support

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UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous People

The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples offers opportunity for indigenous people to participate in the sessions of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Human Rights Council, including its Universal Periodic Review mechanism, and the treaty bodies. Purpose is to ensure that the voices and concerns of indigenous peoples are heard at the UN and contributing to increased international awareness of the rights, status, and conditions of indigenous peoples worldwide.

The Fund also supports human rights training in Geneva and New York, to increase the capacity of grantees and other indigenous representatives to effectively participate in human rights mechanisms.

The Fund makes call for applications on regular basis, generally with deadlines 6 months prior to sessions of Permanent Forum.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants can be representatives of indigenous peoples’ organizations and communities who are so considered by the Board of Trustees.
Would not, in the opinion of the Board, be able to attend meetings without the assistance provided by the Fund.
Would be able to contribute to a deeper knowledge on these mechanisms and bodies of the problems affecting indigenous peoples and who would secure a broad geographical representation.
Applications from indigenous women, youth and indigenous persons with disabilities are highly encouraged.
Applications from indigenous representatives and their nominating organizations that have been beneficiaries of the Fund and failed to submit their evaluation forms will not be accepted.

Note: There are additional criteria for that apply only to Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaty bodies, Human Right Council, Universal Period Review. Please check the Fund’s website for further criteria.

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Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) Funds

The Australian Government has introduced the Indigenous Advancement Strategy with the objective of achieving real results in the key priority areas of getting children to school, adults into work, and building safer communities.

The new flexible programme structure supports a new way of working with Indigenous people, communities, industries, business and service providers, allowing for joint development of solutions that will work over the long term, including through regional or local solutions. Funded organisations are expected to work closely with Indigenous communities in the design and delivery of projects.

Under this strategy, many individual programmes and activities have been streamlined into five broad programmes to make it easier for organisations delivering important services in communities.

Thematic Issues

Jobs, land and economy – getting adults into work, fostering Indigenous business and assisting Indigenous people to generate economic and social benefits from the effective use of their land;
Children and schooling – getting children to school, improving education outcomes and supporting families to give children a good start in life;
Safety and wellbeing – ensuring that Indigenous people are healthy and enjoy the emotional and social wellbeing experienced by other Australians;
Culture and capability – supporting Indigenous Australians to maintain their culture, participate in the economic and social life of the nation and ensure that organisations are capable of delivering quality services to their clients; and
Remote Australia strategies – addressing the social and economic disadvantage in remote Australia and supporting solutions based on community and government priorities.

Funding Available

The total Indigenous-specific funding managed by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is $8.6 billion consisting of:

$4.9 billion over four years to the IAS; and
$3.7 billion allocated through National Partnership Agreements, Special Accounts, Special Appropriations.
A significant level of grant funding is also available through Indigenous-specific and mainstream programmes delivered by other agencies, as well as PM&C Indigenous Portfolio bodies.

Application Process

Under the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS), organisations and individuals are able to apply for funding under one set of guidelines, through one application form, and have a single Funding Agreement with the Department.

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Forest Peoples Programme Supporting Indigenous Forest Peoples

Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) was founded in 1990 in response to the forest crisis, specifically to support indigenous forest peoples’ struggles to defend their lands and livelihoods.

The Foundation works on the following goals-

Get the rights and interests of forest peoples recognised in laws, policies and programmes
Support forest peoples to build their own capacities to claim and exercise their human rights
Counter top-down policies and projects that threaten the rights of forest peoples
Promote community-based sustainable forest management
Ensure equity, counter discrimination and promote gender justice
Inform NGO actions on forests in line with forest peoples’ visions
Link up indigenous and forest peoples’ movements at the regional and international levels

Thematic Areas

Environmental Governance
Climate and Forests
Legal and human Rights
Responsible Finance

Focus Regions/Countries

Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic (CAR); Chad; Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Gabon; Kenya; Liberia; Nigeria; Republic of Congo; Rwanda; South Africa; Tanzania; Uganda
Asia & the Pacific: Bangladesh; Burma; Cambodia; India; North East India; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Nepal; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Vietnam
South & Central America: Argentina; Brazil; Bolivia; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Suriname; Venezuela
North America: Canada
Europe: Russia; United Kingdom

Eligibility Criteria

The organisation works with their partner foundations in above mentioned countries. Organisations working for indigenous community can apply for funding under different programmes conducted.

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Swift Foundation Grants to US & Global Organisations Working for Indigenous People Issues

Swift Foundation is a Private Foundation Supporting Cultural and Biological Diversity through Environmental Protection & the Local Stewardship of Communities around the world.

The Foundation focuses its work on communities outside of the United States where less funding is available.

The first-time grants ranges between $15,000 and $35,000.

Focus Areas

Acknowledge and affirm the interconnected and holistic nature of addressing biological and cultural diversity.
Recognize the connection between the presence of Indigenous Peoples and biodiversity in landscapes.
Regard smallholder agriculture and agroecology as critical to addressing food security and climate change.
Understand the value of sacred sites as critical to the maintenance and restoration of cultural values and the integrity of landscapes.
Affirm the significance of connecting local level work with national, regional and international policy change.
Support integrated approaches to problem solving and linkages between diverse programs, organizations and coalitions.

Past Grantees

EarthRights International, Peru, $30,000: To conduct legal advocacy and provide support for Indigenous groups, threatened by unsustainable and environmentally deleterious development in the Amazon.
International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI), Global, $50,000: To strengthen indigenous women’s leadership and empowerment through leadership training, capacity building and small grants programs that promote biological and cultural diversity.
Indigenous Environmental Network, United States and Global, $20,000: To support organizing, campaigns, advocacy, network building and policy development for Native and Indigenous Peoples working for environmental and economic justice.

Grant Guidelines

Swift Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals.
Most first-time grants are between $15,000 and $35,000; with exceptions for a first time grant for a particularly promising, innovative or start-up program, project or organization.
Swift funds both one-time program grants as well as long-term partnerships. Swift Foundation strives to build trust through long-term partnerships and alliances with organizations.
After a one-year grant Swift may consider a multi-year grant and occasionally a general support grant.

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The Christensen Fund: Financial and Logistical Support for Indigenous-led and Community-based Organizations

The Christensen Fund provides financial and logistical support for indigenous-led and community based organizations.

The fund focus on the bicultural – the rich but neglected adaptive interweave of people and place, culture and ecology.Its mission is to buttress the efforts of people and institutions who believe in a biodiverse world infused with artistic expression and work to secure ways of life and landscapes that are beautiful, bountiful and resilient.

Grant Information

Grant size is typically in the $50,000 to $100,000 range over one year or two years, with larger grants for longer periods being available generally by invitation only and to previous grantees.

Areas of Interest

Sustaining Foodways and Livelihoods within Biocultural Landscapes and Seascapes
Ensuring Socio-ecological Resilience of Landscapes and Seascapes
Celebrating and Revitalizing Cultural Expression
Promoting Knowledge Systems and Biocultural Education
Rights and representation
Gender Equality
Leadership development
Creative practitioners

The Christensen Fund embraces the perspective that recognizes the interdependence of cultural and biological integrity and focuses its efforts on that component of diversity which has been recently coined as biocultural – namely the weave of humankind and nature, cultural pluralism and ecological integrity.

Eligibility Criteria

Grant-seeking organizations need to be US 501(c)(3) or a similar not-for-profit organization, government unit, university or museum either in the USA or in another country.

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