Programmes

Tebtebba seeks to achieve its mission of building indigenous peoples' capacities to do advocacy, education, and campaign work in the national and international arenas, through the following programs:

NETWORKING, ADVOCACY AND CAMPAIGNS

• Promote collaboration and coordination among indigenous peoples at national, regional and international processes and political arenas towards united positions and campaign strategies

• Engage governments, multilateral bodies and civil society to understand, support and adopt indigenous peoples' positions and perspectives in the areas of sustainable development, indigenous peoples' rights, gender, trade and globalization

• Create mechanisms for indigenous initiatives on conflict transformation

• Provide administrative and secretariat functions for indigenous initiatives

• Mobilize advocates to contribute their skills and resources in solidarity towards common goals

RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND DOCUMENTATION

• Promote the Indigenous Peoples' Global Research and Education Network (IPGREN)

• Undertake participatory action researches on:

  • Indigenous peoples and sustainable development

  • Conflict transformation, peace building and governance

  • Policies of international financial institutions, intergovernmental organizations and donor agencies

  • Biological and cultural diversity and protection of indigenous knowledge

  • Impact of globalization on indigenous peoples

  • Women/Gender and development

  • Indigenous peoples' econonmic, political and cultural systems

• Conduct education and training for indigenous peoples

INSTITUTION BUILDING

• Build organizational and insitutional capacities of indigenous peoples for policy advocacy, research and education

• Extend assistance and services to indigenous peoples' organizations, NGOs and communities

PUBLICATIONS

• Articulate indigenous peoples' aspirations from varied perspectives and vantage points

• Popularize indigenous peoples' issues and concerns through:

  • Indigenous Perspectives - a bi-annual journal

  • Tebtebba Magazine

  • Policy and Briefing Papers

  • Special Publications

• Maintain the website: www.tebtebba.org and the different indigenous listserves

GENDER UNIT

• Ensure gender analysis of policies and gender dimension of researches

• Undertake research on situations of indigenous women

• Promote women's rights

• Network with other indigenous women's organizations

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• Operate the Global Indigenous Research and Development Training Institute

• Maintain a library and databank

• Network with other libraries

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