Completed Projects

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Capacity, Accountable, Responsibility, Educated (CARE) Project (2023-2024)

The CARE Project is an acronym derived from the words Capacity – also pertaining to capabilities, abilities, or skills; Accountable or liable; Respected/respectful; and Educated. It aims to connect IPLC women and youth leaders to improve their adaptive capacity to address the socio-ecological crisis due to climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.

It also aims to connect…

Increasing Indigenous and Local Women’s Resilience in Southeast Asia (2022-2024)

Samdhana aims to support Indigenous and Local women and women’s groups confront gender-based violence that is exacerbated by core issues they face, such as lack of tenure rights, no recognition of women’s rights, and lack of economic opportunities. We also aim to support women in the frontlines of the struggle to defend their community’s natural resources, and push for the recognition of…

Nurturing the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ Women Environmental Defenders (WE-Defend) (2022-2023)

WE-Defend will employ a two – pronged approach:

First – support and advance traditional tools and support for security (including legal defense, psychosocial support, and dialogues with the security sector)

Second – socialize environmental defense into a broader movement with a view towards depoliticizing the work of WEDs in the frontlines.

Objectives:…

ABCD In Food: Agro-Bio-Cultural Diversity of Indigenous Food Systems of Calamian Tagbanwa and Higaonon (2021-2022)

Project objectives

The overall aim of “ABCD In Food” is to strengthen resilience among indigenous communities through the protection and promotion of their diverse agricultural, biological, and cultural systems.

Specific Objectives:

To conserve and promote indigenous traditional food sources, through documentation of IKSP on traditional agriculture and food system,…

Increasing Tagbanwa Women and Youth Capacity in Traditional Foods Conservation (2019-2022)

Project objectives

To support the Calamian Tagbanwa community-led conservation of traditional food sources for improved food security and assertion of rights.

Specifically, the project aims to:

Document traditional food sources in the ancestral domain, along with Indigenous Knowledge, Practices and Systems (IKSP) on food production management and conservation;

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Working with Communities in the Land of Papua to Secure Rights, Improve Livelihoods, and Conserve Forest and Biodiversity (2021-2023)

Project objectives

By 2023, at least 40 communities/local groups in the Mamta, Domberai and Anim Ha indigenous regions of Papua will have been connected in terms of their knowledge, economies and overall solidarity. Together, these communities will grow their own capacity and capability to secure their rights and livelihoods, and conserve forests and agrobiodiversity. This will ultimately…

Accelerating Recognition of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Tanah Papua as Key to Low-Emission Development (2021-2024)

Project objectives

The overall objectives of the project is to strengthen community land rights, through work with communities, local CSOs and local government offices in Papua and West Papua. In particular the purpose of the project is to achieve:

Indigenous Rights Recognition over territories and the forests in Tanah Papua

IP rights over land and natural resources are…

DGM-I (Dedicated Grant Mechanism Indonesia)

To engage Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC), facilitate greater participation in tenure security processes and create livelihood opportunities from the sustainable management of forests and land. The project aimed to provide a strategic contribution to the lives of IPLC households and their tenure security.

To strengthen the capacity of IPLC households to obtain secure and…

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