Indigenous Peoples Organizations

Community Empowerment & Development Action (CEDA) is a Non-governmental, Non-political and Non-profit association. Our primary goals is to sensitize the devastated Somali community on various aspects including Health, Peace...

The Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), in Osogbo, was set up in 2009. Their mission is to elevate Black culture, by focusing on its recovery, preservation, promotion, and utilization of its...

50 years ago our community was forcibly evicted from our homeland, The Chagos Islands, by the British Government to make way for a United States military base. We were exiled to the Seychelles and Mauritius where we have...

COPORWA is a non-governmental organization for the Community of Potters of Rwanda. COPORWA was created in May 1995 to defend and protect the rights of the Potter community, also known as Historically Marginalized People (HMP)...

The East African Civil Society Organizations’ Forum is an autonomous umbrella body of all Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and CSOs in East Africa, with the primary objective of building a critical mass of knowledgeable...

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...

The Indigenous Heartland Organization (IHO) was formulated and registered in Tanzania as a nonprofit making organization, to facilitate the empowerment and development of indigenous people living in or adjacent to protected...

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...

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...

The Nyae Nyae Development Foundation Namibia (NNDFN) is a non-governmental organisation working with San communities in Namibia.

OPDP’s work is centred on promoting the recognition and identity of Indigenous peoples’ culture, the participation and inclusion of the communities in all sectors of development, championing for land rights, ensuring...

Tamaynut is an Amazigh NGO. Since its creation in 1978, it has participated in the constitution of a modern and democratic civil society in Morocco. Its purpose is to defend and promote the inherent rights of the Amazighs, in...