The Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility supports indigenous peoples to determine and develop priorities and strategies to fulfill development needs of their communities.
Through small grants ranging from USD 20,000 to USD 50,000 and lasting up to two years, the IPAF supports the demand-driven initiatives of indigenous peoples’ communities by funding small projects that are designed and implemented by indigenous peoples’ communities and their organizations, and that build on their culture, identity, knowledge and natural resources.
Priorities
- Food Security and Nutrition
- Access to Markets
- Land, Territories and Resources
- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Areas of Interest
- Increasing indigenous peoples communities’ food security and nutrition
- Preservation and promotion of local varieties of traditional crops
- Support and training on sustainable agricultural techniques
- Contribute to the rehabilitation of local plantations
- Support production of indigenous and traditional food
- Support the implementation of community-based forestry systems
- Preserving wild species and seeds
- Inter-generational transfer of indigenous peoples’ knowledge
- Promoting sustainable agriculture and access to market
- Creation and strengthening of income generating groups/cooperatives
- Capacity building for, and creation of income-generating activities
- Culturally appropriate ethno-tourism models
- Market traditional handicrafts
- Management of natural resources
- Build and strengthen the capacity and raise awareness on indigenous peoples’ rights to land territories
- Mapping of indigenous and tribal peoples’ land territories and resources
- Adaptation and mitigation to climate change
- Biodiversity conservation
- Policy engagement with governments on indigenous peoples rights and development with culture resources and identity
- Documentation and integration of indigenous peoples’ knowledge and practices in disaster risk reduction
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be an indigenous or tribal peoples’ organization;
- Not-for-profit/non-governmental organizations can apply if designated by the indigenous peoples’ communities to act on their behalf.
- The applicant must be legally registered in an IFAD developing Member State;
- The applicant’s headquarters must be located in the country of grant implementation
- The applicant should demonstrate internal controls to govern the use of funds.
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