On 12 to 13 May 2011, the Bureau of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, acting as the Advisory Group for the projects for the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, met to consider projects proposals received by the Secretariat for funding from the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues Small Grants Programme in accordance with General Assembly resolution 59/174 of 22 December 2004.
From 2006 to 2011, the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues has granted a total of 102 projects with a predominance of projects in Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia and Central and South America and the Caribbean.
The grantees will be contacted directly by the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues shortly. The following projects were selected for funding in the 2011 round:
| Country |
Name of project
|
Organization
|
| Argentina |
Escuela itinerante de formación en socioeconomia solidaria
|
Asociación Civil Pro Patagonia
|
| Bangladesh |
Raising Indigenous Voice through Media |
Centre for Communication and Development (CCD) |
| Belize |
Building capacity and increasing opportunity for cacao and coffee growing families in southern Belize
|
Ya'axché Conservation Trust
|
| Bolivia |
Planificacion territorial de la region guarani del Itika Guasu |
Equipo de Apoyo al Pueblo Guarani (EAPG) |
| Cameroon |
Project de valorisation du droit a la citoyenneté des populations pygmées de Bipindi
|
Mengbwa: Actions Jeunes (MAJE)
|
| Canada |
Best Practices in Intergenerational Language Transmission |
Anishinaabek, Mushkegowuk, Onkwehonwe Language Commission of Ontario |
| Canada |
Treaty 8 Indigenous Games
|
Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta
|
| Congo |
Programme d'Appui aux Pygmees et de lutte contre le VIH/Sida au village Vungba |
AFIA SANTE |
| Ecuador |
Sustainable social and economic development for women of the Tsa'chila culture of Ecuador
|
Fundacion Yanapuma
|
| Malaysia |
Mapping of traditional land territory of the Penan tribe in Long Jaik village in Belaga District, Sarawak, Malaysia
|
Institut Pribumi Malaysia Sarawak
|
| Russian Federation |
Suicide among indigenous people of Siberia: catastrophe, causes and prevention |
Buryatia State University |
| Samoa |
This is My Village: Enabling the Voices of Pasifika |
Pasifika Foundation Hawai'i (PFH) in partnership with Pasifika Media Association (PasiMA) |
| Tanzania |
Climate change education to Maasai communities in Kilosa district Morogoro, Tanzania
|
Tanzania Youth Environmental Network (TAYEN)
|
| Uganda |
Conflict resolution and community action for the Batwa empowerment project |
Gender Equality and Women Empowerment for Development (GWEFODE) |
| Venezuela |
Fortalecer el papel cultural de la mujer indígena en la promoción y conservación del idioma Baniwa en el estado Amazonas-Venezuela. |
Asociación de Pueblos Indígenas de Venezuela (APIVEN) |
| Vietnam |
Empowering Muong women and girls affected by domestic violence in Thanh Hoi commune of Tan Lac District, Hoa Binh Province in Vietnam
|
Center for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender, Family, Women and Adolescents (CSAGA)
|