Africa

Drawing on the past for an informed future.

The New Dawn Pacesetter (TNDP) “Drawing on the past for an informed future” is a continuation of “Strengthening of Indigenous Knowledge in prevention and treatment of Covid-19 and other dangerous diseases” initiative. The aim is to have a sustainable cultural transfer process through platforms where elders will teach the younger generations about our ancestral customs, …

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Mentoring youth in indigenous knowledge, traditional leadership skills, environmental custodianship and cultural survival

Lattu Lifespring This initiative champions the enhancement of cultural education for children and youth in order to help reinforce who they are and to be proud of their own culture and traditional knowledge systems. Such education will revitalize cultural practices, promote relationships among generations, ensure cultural transmission and combined with formal education, offer the child …

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Documenting and Digitizing Indigenous Pastoral Maasai Traditional knowledge on cultural Expressions and associated resources for posterity.

Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners (ILEPA) Initiative endeavors to document and digitize traditional knowledge, cultural expressions and associated resources of Pastoralists Maasai of Kenya with a focus of Narok County, Kenya.

Documenting and preserving the Maasai culture

South Rift Association of Land owners (SORALO) This Initiative will aim to document collect and preserve Maasai traditions both of material and non material culture at the Ologisalie Maasai cultural centre and promote a bianual gathering of the Maasai to celebrate their culture as a way to continue passing on their cultural practices to younger …

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Documentation and Intergenerational Teaching of the Yiakunte Language, history and Social-Cultural Traditional Ecological Knowledge( TEK) of the Yiaku Indigenous People through use of Print Media by developing Yiakunte language and pictorial booklets to Complement the Yiakunte Meta-human Chatbot Application.

Yiaku Laikipia Trust The main objective of this initiative is to use collected data on the Yiaku people and the Yiakunte dialect and present it in print media by developing Yiakunte language and pictorial booklets for learning, teaching, and preservation of the history of the Yiaku people and leaving no one behind.