Local Partners

“Sutain Khishig” The Blessing of sacred Sutai Mountain—Arvai Barley Flour

15 Grant Cycle, 2022, Eurasia, Territorial management and natural resources / Por

Cooperative “Bayalag Sutain Khugjil” The initiative’s goal is to revitalise the culture of respect for local food and the practice of Arvai sowing, growing, harvesting, and eating as an integral part of a healthy and prosperous life in the mountainous communities of Western Mongolia and beyond. The intrinsic connection between people and the landscape is …

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Strengthening promotion of agrobiodiversity of seed systems based on community

15 Grant Cycle, 2022, Eurasia, Strengthening resilience to climate change / Por

Public organization “Zan va Zamin”(Women and the Earth) The main goal of the initiative is to promote the conservation of rare valuable local varieties of agricultural plants and the development of local seed production for food by supporting and strengthening 3 established community seed banks and increasing the capacity of women seed keepers in the …

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Nomadic Nature Trunk (NNT)

15 Grant Cycle, 2022, Eurasia, Strengthening resilience to climate change / Por

Land of Snow Leopard Network (LOSL) The NNT program is an award-winning conservation project that designed portable trunks containing conservation education materials comprising 15-20 highly interactive game-based lessons covering native biodiversity, habitats, and human-wildlife conflict. LOSL is committed to decolonising mainstream conservation by incorporating and prioritising Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and indigenous spiritual traditions in …

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Documenting and Promoting Traditional Medical Knowledge and Skills: Midwives as Bearers of Centuries-Old Health-related Traditions

15 Grant Cycle, 2022, Documentation, dissemination and promotion of traditional knowledge and innovations, Eurasia / Por

Public Association “Miralina” The project aims to document traditional medicinal knowledge about curing people using medicinal plants. In particular, the traditional medical knowledge related to childbirth and skills related to caring for an infant and the infant’s mother are being lost and are safeguarded only by a few knowledge bearers. 320 knowledge bearers in very …

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Documenting the Petroglyphs of Ak-Bulun (Ak-Suisky District, Issyk-Kulsky Oblast, Kyrgyzstan).

15 Grant Cycle, 2022, Documentation, dissemination and promotion of traditional knowledge and innovations, Eurasia / Por

Aigine Cultural Research Center (CRC) Spiritual practitioners in Kyrgyzstan believe that petroglyphs preserve ancient people’s knowledge, document rituals and daily practices, and contain coded information for descendants. Aigine Center will hold training seminars, work with students to certify the Ak-Bulun petroglyphs, create an online map and an information stand, and enter the complex data into …

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Protection of San Communities Human Rights through Capacity Development and Empowerment in 6 Villages

15 Grant Cycle, 2023, Africa, Institutional and governance strengthening / Por

San Youth Network (SYNet) The initiative seeks to support the San/Indigenous Communities of 6 villages in Ghanzi, Botswana, to build their confidence and ensure that they defend themselves on the issues of social injustice. To empower and amplify the voices of the San indigenous communities to articulate their issues in critical platforms.

Empowering lives, restoring hope for indigenous Mbororo Peoples.

15 Grant Cycle, 2023, Africa, Emergency / Por

Lelewal Foundation The initiative seeks to provide holistic support to individuals who have faced adversity through displacement and have experienced trauma, abuse, or other challenging life circumstances like cattle rustling and kidnapping for ransom payment by armed groups due to war caused by the “Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. To use the indigenous people’s principle of …

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Building climate change resilient communities

15 Grant Cycle, 2023, Africa, Climate Resilience / Por

Pastoralists Indigenous Non-Governmental Organizations PINGOs The initiative aims to strengthen community-based and collective-held knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, offering valuable insights and complementing scientific data on climate science and landscape-specific to enable Indigenous Peoples and the decision-making bodies to verify climate models and evaluate climate change scenarios at a much broader spatial and temporal scale. The …

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Scaling up renewable energy as a means of combating climate change crisis among Ogiek of Mau Forest in Kenya

15 Grant Cycle, 2023, Africa, Climate Resilience / Por

Ogiek Peoples Development Programme (OPDP) The initiative aims to increase clean energy and access to the Ogiek Community by providing renewable energy and mitigating climate change. To: a) Build the capacity of the Ogiek community on the use of renewable energies such as energy-saving jikos, biogas, briquettes, and solar systems; b) Provide support to 50 …

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