Indigenous Landscapes:
Strengthening Native Amazonian Organizations

Partners

• The Nature Conservancy - TNC (Lead Partner)
• Instituto de Educação Ambiental do Brasil (IEB)
• Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira (COIAB)
• Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação em Educação Indígena (IEPÉ)
• Conselho Indigenista de Roraima (CIR)

The objective of this project is to strengthen technical and organizational capacities of Amazonian indigenous organizations, increasing their efficiency, governance and transparency, bringing about their active participation in the management of Amazon landscapes mosaics encompassing indigenous territories and protected areas.

To meet this objective, the Consortium proposes the following specific objectives:

1. Strengthen Amazonian indigenous organizations in areas which they themselves have identified as strategically vital for territorial management: (a) effective engagement with governments, the private sector, and civil society in indigenous policies debates; (b) improved governance, accountability and transparency in terms of institutional performance; (c) increased capacities in conservation planning and environmental management; and (d) helping groups enhance the sustainability of livelihoods of indigenous peoples and the communities they represent.

2. Improve territorial protection and management of two large landscape mosaics of indigenous territories and protected areas.

3. Reinforce existing networks and alliances of strengthened Amazonian indigenous organizations, and catalyze new ones.