Diné Community Advocacy Alliance (DCAA) Our Healthy Diné Nation initiatives, efforts, and initiatives have been and are deeply rooted in intergenerational collective action, in community, and in relationship to address our diabetes epidemic, to reclaim our identity through traditional healthy food, and to improve the health and well-being of our people. In and around our …
Papora Indigenous Development Association (PIDA) PIDA team will introduce and record the traditional food, herbs, and knowledge of Taiwan’s indigenous people with dedication, and contribute to the public of the world.
Pertubuhan Wanita Orang Asal Malaysia (PWOAM)-Malaysia Indigenous Woman Organisation This proposal is to focus on indigenous women for the revitalization of customary law institutions and the reconstruction of their traditional governance systems, as well as for sustained advocacy to achieve impact at national and local levels. The ultimate goal is to documenting the traditional knowledge …
Indigenous Women Health, wellbeing and indigenous food systems in Malaysia Leer más »
Erumanen ne Menuvu Kamal The initiative aims to elevate the health, food and wellbeing of Erumanen ne Menuvu. This is improving physical, mental and social being of the tribe. The health is promotion of physical wellbeing.
South Vijar Welfare Society for Tribal (ASHRAY) The ultimate goal is to revitalize traditional food systems and achieve the sustainable development Goal -3.3 (SDGs) to end the epidemics and zero HIV/Tuberculosis(TB)/COVID-19 related discrimination to IW in Dumka, East Singhbhum, Simdega, Gumla and Khunti districts. IW swasthya sakhis (health peer) will be mobilized and supported to …
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, …
Pastoral Women Council (PWC) Building on the success of phase 1 of this initiative, PWC will continue sensitising pastoralistcommunities of northern Tanzania through forums, radio and building a well-informed andcapacitated grassroots network of Community Health Workers (CHWs) to enhance their SRHwellness
Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) The critical approach will be to raise awareness, disseminate information, and provide access to sexual health and family planning services by facilitating health care workers to engage with Maasai communities in Ngorongoro without access to such support.
Local Partner: Save PNG Inc. With many foreign influences, Papua New Guinean youth are neglecting subsistence gardening and traditional diets of the past in favour of fast food consumerism and illegal income trends of the present which often leads to a life of crime, violence and poor health. The goal is a cultural education in …
Revitalizing Indigenous Knowledge in Traditional Medicine. Leer más »
Local Partner: Association Natural Resources Protection for the Well-being of the Population in Burundi (APRN/BEPB) Bacground and objective: The hunter-gatherer communities (such as the Batwa), have been amongst the most neglected communities in the entire continent. Many of them have had their ancestral homes in the forests and with recent calls for conserving of forests, …