We are excited to announce that Cultural Survival’s Executive Director Suzanne Benally (Santa Clara Tewa/ Navajo) has joined the Board of Directors of International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP), the only global donor affinity group dedicated solely to Indigenous Peoples around the world. For the past seventeen years, IFIP has built momentum toward a new movement in philanthropy that recognizes Indigenous communities as high-impact investments. Throughout the years, IFIP has organized 14 major conferences, bringing thousands of donors and Indigenous leaders together.

Cultural Survival is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the Community Media Indigenous Youth Fellowship Project that will support young Indigenous individuals in their efforts to build their capacity as radio broadcasters and journalists through specific trainings, community radio visits or exchanges, radio production, conference attendance, and other identified education and training opportunities. Eligible applicants must reside in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, South Africa, and Nepal.
Cultural Survival, with the support of the Channel Foundation, recently wrapped up a training  project aimed at strengthening the participation of Indigenous women in community radio in Central America. Two sessions were held, one in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala with ten women from Guatemala and the second in Managua, Nicaragua with ten women from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. The goal was to increase the knowledge of women in journalism and radio production, discuss gender from an intercultural approach and plan a path from empowerment to leadership. Several women, for the first time, produced their own radio programs.
On November 6-17, 2017, a delegation of Indigenous Kichwa leaders from the community of Sarayaku, deep in Ecuadorian Amazon, accompanied by Amazon Watch, traveled to the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany, to promote their Kawsak Sacha ("Living Forest") proposal -- a comprehensive vision for living in harmony with the natural world based upon their ancestral practices.                 
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