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Overview: The FSC Indigenous Foundation
(FSC-IF) is a global Indigenous organization supporting Indigenous Peoples’
self-development, self-governance and self-reliance through Indigenous-based
solutions, multi-sectoral partnerships and funding.
Reflections from One Young World: Read blogs from Indigenous youth
leaders on their experiences at the summit and how they will carry this
knowledge to their communities.
Indigenous Fellowship Program - APPLICATIONS CURRENTLY CLOSED:
In partnership with USAID and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the FSC-IF
invites applications from Indigenous Peoples to exchange, dialogue, and to
strengthen their leadership and networks with the aim to facilitate the
implementation of a project at the sub-national, national, regional, or global
level and to share their experience and learning process with their Indigenous
peers. The critical topic areas of this fellowship opportunity are Environment/Climate
Change, Land Rights, and Indigenous Economies.
Application deadline is 11:59 ET on March 31, 2023
Indigenous Fellowship Program Form
Business Development Fellowship: For this first round of the
Ancestral Seeds Fund, proposals will be received from Indigenous youth
entrepreneurs from four different regions of the world: Africa, Asia, South
America, and Mesoamerica that have previously participated in programs or projects
implemented by USAID implementing partners in the country from they are
applying.
Overview: Nia Tero works in solidarity with
Indigenous Peoples who sustain thriving territories and cultures to strengthen
guardianship of Earth and all beings. Nia Tero forges transparent and just
agreements with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ensure they can
successfully defend and govern their territories, manage and protect their
natural resources, and pursue their livelihoods.
Creative
Fellowships: Nia Tero
offers a suite of Creative Fellowship opportunities for Indigenous makers
across disciplines to further their practice, be in community, build skills,
and network – all with the goal of uplifting and amplifying Indigenous
creatives
NATIVe Stand: an international professional-development
opportunity for Indigenous producers to attend the European Film Market (EFM)
in Berlin with 1-2 market-ready feature film projects
Pasifika Journalism: supports Indigenous journalists as
individuals or pairs on stories in the Pacific that cover critical topic areas
surrounding what Nia Tero calls “Indigenous guardianship” - Indigenous Peoples’
sovereign, collective care for thriving homelands and waters.
Storytelling: a yearlong program aimed to support and
amplify the work of seasoned, Indigenous storytelling creatives within Nia
Tero’s priority regions (Pasifika, Amazonia, and North America) as well as
globally.
Leadership Fellowship: this program is modeled after Indigenous
teaching methods and concepts of leadership, with the goal to enhance
leadership development and succession, thereby contributing to local durable
support and guardianship of territories
Regional Focus: the program was adapted into three
regional areas – North America, Amazonia, and Pasifika
Policy
Apprenticeship: this
program seeks to strengthen Indigenous organizations in influencing lobal
public policies that are applied at the regional, national, and local levels,
directly and indirectly impacting their territories.
Overview: Cultural Survival is an Indigenous-led NGO
and U.S. registered non-profit that advocates for Indigenous Peoples’ rights
and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures, and
political resilience, since 1972. For 50 years, Cultural Survival has partnered
with Indigenous communities to advance Indigenous Peoples’ rights and cultures
worldwide.
Fellowships: Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Youth
Fellowship Program supports young Indigenous leaders between ages of 17-28, who
are eager to learn about technology, program development, journalism, community
radio, media, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights advocacy.
2025 Call for Indigenous Youth Creatives and Visionaries: CALL OPEN UNTIL NOVEMBER 30, 2024
Cultural Survival is pleased to announce its 2025 call
for proposals for our Indigenous Youth Fellowships to support individuals or
groups of young Indigenous communicators, activists, artists, creatives and
visionaries to develop their capacities, training, research, production and
creation aimed at strengthening their cultural identity and leadership. Youth
leadership development is an integral part of ensuring the wellness of
communities, and Indigenous youth are the future of that well-being.
Overview: With twenty years of experience adapting and
scaling changemaking, GDF has a significant portfolio of projects that continue
to have positive impacts on local communities. GDF engages with changemakers
from all sectors, across all geographies and from diverse backgrounds – be they
community-based activists or global movers-and-shakers. GDF marries local
action and knowledge with global innovation to restore nature, enhance
livelihoods and promote diversity.
Conservation and Communities Fellowship (CCF) – APPLICATIONS CURRENTLY CLOSED:
CCF is an online and in-person fellowship for leaders of Global South
grassroots organizations working at the intersection of biodiversity and
livelihoods. The Fellowship is a 10-month tailored learning and
development programme for Global South leaders. It seeks to bring greater
equity in the conservation funding flows from the Global North by supporting
grassroot Global South civil society organizations to directly access funds for
their projects and programs.
Overview: The Kinship Conservation Fellowship
supports conservation practitioners across the globe. The program is designed
to advance your career and equip you with new skills, insights, and analytical
tools to accelerate the projects you lead at home. The month-long, in-residence
Fellowship focuses on market-based solutions in conservation and cultivates
your leadership skills in the sector.
Kinship Conservation Fellowship Application Details - 2025 FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE
OPEN: This 2025 program runs June 29 – July 29 at Western Washington University
in Bellingham, Washington, USA. This fellowship looks for conservation leaders
with at least five years of on the ground experience in conservation, who are
involved with the implementation of market-based approaches to solve
environmental problems and ready to be part of an expanding community of global
leaders.
About the programme: The programme contributes to build the
capacity and expertise of indigenous representatives on the UN system and
mechanisms dealing with human rights in general and indigenous issues in
particular. This means they are in a better position to protect and promote the
rights of their communities at the international level.
Call for applications: OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Program 2025: APPLICATION OPEN UNTIL
SATURDAY, 31 AUGUST 2024
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR OHCHR INDIGENOUS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Overview: MADRE works toward a world where
women and people who are marginalized fully participate in shaping policies and
decision making, their expertise and leadership is recognized and upheld, and
they equitably hold power and resources within their communities. MADRE builds
solidarity-based partnerships with grassroots movements in more than 40
countries, working side-by-side with local leaders on policy solutions,
grantmaking, capacity bridging, and legal advocacy to achieve our shared vision
for justice
Learn more about MADRE, their work, partners, action center, and
more here.
Overview: WiGSA is an alliance of women’s
organizations, groups, and associations in the global South working to scale-up
direct climate finance for Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community
women and girls. WiGSA advocates for changes to the current global structure of
donor funding to fight climate change and conserve biodiversity by securing
direct, equitable, flexible, and long-term funding for Indigenous,
Afro-descendent, and local community women and girls in the global South.
Learn more about the RRI WiGSA
Overview: FIMI articulates actions with
organizations, networks, and Indigenous leaders from around the world to
promote the fight for individual and collective rights. FIMI is a global
mechanism that articulates Indigenous Women from seven sociocultural regions, focusing
on political advocacy, capacity building, economic empowerment and leadership
development
Overview: Pawanka Fund is an Indigenous led
fund making effort supporting Indigenous peoples initiatives engaged in
promoting and protecting traditional knowledge, wellbeing, rights and
self-determined development. Pawanka responds to the needs of Indigenous peoples
building relationships of trust, networking and promoting articulation between
local and global processes. We [Pawanka] provide direct support to community
led organizations for the recovery and revitalization of Indigenous knowledge
and learning systems ins even sociocultural regions of the world including North
America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Arctic, Pacific, and Russia.
Project Funding Information: “The [Pawanka] Fund does not make an
open call for proposals and the members of the Guiding Committee work closely
with local Indigenous organizations and institutions to support their
initiatives in the spirit of partnership and solidarity.”
Previous
& Current Pawanka Partners and Grant Cycles
Overview: PWC is a membership organization
that empowers women at the community-level to take control of their own
development. PWC serves Ngorongoro, Longido and Monduli Districts in
north-eastern Tanzania. PWC’s mission is to sustainable empower pastoralist
women and girls in northern Tanzania to ensure their rights and voices are
respected, they are economically empowered, and they have access to quality
social services.
Regional
Focus: serving
Ngorongoro, Longido, and Monduli Districts in north-eastern Tanzania
Issue
Focus: Rights and
Leadership, Economic Empowerment, Education, Health Access, Water Provision,
Climate Resilience and Adaptation
Learn more about Pastoral
Women’s Council
Overview: 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 udnergo
political, economic, and social challenges, MPIDO curves her niche into pursuing
Livelihoods, climate change intervention, mitigation and adaptation; governance
and conflict resolution, natural resource management; Gender, women and youth
empowerment response targeting all pastoralists, hunter and gatherer
communities. Through years of expertise and experience, MPIDO now serves the
marginalized needs of all Indigenous peoples at a Pan african and Global Stage.
Regional Focus: serving Indigenous peoples at a Pan-African
and Global Stage
Programmes: Land and natural resource rights, climate
change interventions, livelihoods, girl child education and women empowerment,
leadership and governance, land and natural resource rights
Overview: The African Indigenous Women’s
Organization (AIWO) is a continental-wide Non-Governmental Organization whose
members are composed of African Indigenous Women representing NGOs, Community
Based Organizations, and other grass-root organizations (who undertake social
and economic activities for their own gain). AIWO works towards the promotion
of women’s and Indigenous peoples' rights which include social, economic, and
political empowerment in Africa.
Regional
Focus: Target
groups are African Indigenous Women throughout the African content and AIWO
networks with Non-Governmental Organizations, Community-Based Organizations and
other partners run by and for the benefit of African Indigenous Women
Major
Programs: Environmental
conservation, reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS. Women's rights and
gender mainstreaming, education, women economic empowerment, influence policy
change, cultural preservation
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