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Overview

Principal Office: USA

Key Words:  indigenous peoples, conservation, land stewardship, climate change

Website: Link

First Peoples Worldwide focuses on indigenous development issues. It aims to stop and reverse injustices by equipping indigenous peoples with resources to challenge government, business, and conservation policies if they are not consistent with indigenous interests.

Additionally, First Peoples builds capacity in indigenous communities to play an active role in conservation and environmental stewardship. Interests include:

• Biodiversity conservation and sustainable land use on indigenous homelands;
• Protected rights of hunting and gathering on indigenous lands;
• Mapping indigenous homelands;
• Human rights in conservation (avoiding evictions, forced relocations, and torture in the name of conservation);
• Co-management of land and resources with others;
• Equitable funding for conservation on indigenous territories; and
• Indigenous responses to climate change, and
• Indigenous participation in dialogues about climate change.

First Peoples supports these objectives through several means, including grant making in “Keepers of the Earth Program and Fund.”

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Grant Programs for Agriculture, Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources

Keepers of the Earth Fund. The Keepers of the Earth Fund makes grants for environmental activities consistent with the social, political, and economic welfare of indigenous communities. This refers to land use and conservation; traditional decision-making; climate change; food security; and other issues important to indigenous communities.

Grants are made to and on behalf of indigenous-led organizations and groups outside the USA, mainly in developing countries. The recipient organizations must have a bank account, or have fiscal sponsors.

Grants range from US$250 to US$20 thousand. On average, a first-time award is US$5 thousand or less for projects of up to one year.

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Geographical Distribution of Grant Activities in Developing Countries

Worldwide

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Comments

First Peoples announced the establishment of the Indigenous Peoples Climate Action Fund in collaboration with the World Bank in November 2009. However, the Fund is not active at the time of this update. -- Link

First Peoples offers complete contact information for its office in Virginia, USA. – Link 

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Last Profile Review

January 2012

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