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Guiding Committee Meeting Managua, Nicaragua 8-10 February 2018 AGREEMENTS AND CONCLUSIONS a)      Successes, challenges and lessons learned in Pawanka’s first three years. There has been the transition from being an initiative to becoming a fund with its own identity.  Pawanka is a unique process that is changing the way to manage a fund through reciprocity alliances

This video showcases the output of the 2018 Guiding Committee Annual Meeting held in Nicaragua. Some of the highlights were the following: Successes, challenges and lessons learned in Pawanka’s first three years Advancements and lessons learned in the area of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and Communication Administrative and mentoring lessons learned Priorities, schedule, work plan

Pawanka Fund 3rd and 4th cycles. Innovative indigenous arts and performance. Traditional knowledge systems and climate change.  Watch the video to know more. 

By Rukka Sombolinggi *Rukka Sombolinggi is the new Secretary General of Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN), known as the Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago Jakarta, Indonesia – When nine women farmers from the Kendeng community in Central Java encased their feet in cement blocks last year, many indigenous advocates understood how that felt. Dressed in their

What meaningful change has been achieved?  Watch what our local partners have to say.  Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Learning.

A video documentary on the rice culture of the Pidlisan Tribe of Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines. This is part of the promotion, enhancement and transmission of indigenous knowledge and practices of the Pidlisan Tribe, Kankanaey, Igorot of Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines.