Grants to Partners

1. Capacity Development of Bukidnon Daraghuyan Tribal Council in Establishing Culture-Based Community Development in MKRNP Through Its Ancestral Domain Sustainable Protection Plan (ADSDPP);
2. Creative Community Workshops on Tribal Music & Arts in the Kaamulan Annual Festivity in Bukidnon (the Kaamulan is the government’s way of showing appreciation to its seven IP groups and it is marked by street dancing competitions participated by all its municipal and city units, tribals and non-tribals alike);
3. Gardening/Landscaping with the tribe. KIN is a facilitator which can/will act as the capacity builder for the tribal clans in the area.

To assist the IP community in Enggano Island in strengthening their IP organization.  Enggano Island is part of Bengkulu province.  There are 5 tribes in this island: Kaitora, Kaharubi, Kahahruba, Kahahoa, and Kauno.  Each tribe has already had an organizational structure, but they are currently not well consolidated, so they cannot “compete” with inhabitant coming from outside Enggano, and their survival will be threatened.  This will also threaten the sustainability of Enggano’s natural resources as the threat is mostly done by the outsiders.  Organization strengthening for Enggano’s IP is one of the efforts to face this problem.  AMAN Bengkulu will facilitate the village meetings, community meetings and community workshop as part of the consolidation process, so that the IP will have a common agenda as part of the IP movement coordinated by AMAN Enggano.  Samdhana’s support is needed to enable AMAN Bengkulu facilitating the process.

To facilitate the capacity building of Talang Mamak IP through the following activities: - various village meetings as shared-learning forum for the community (the meeting will be attended by various community groups); - Cooperative (Koperasi) management improvement by supporting the comparative-study (cross visit)  for the cooperative managers to the other well-established cooperative in Pekanbaru or nearby, and management training.  Talang Mamak is one of the indigenous tribes in Riau, Pekanbaru. They inhabit most part of Ekok River, which is part of the sub-watershed that flows to Indragiri River. The existence of illegal logging activity, land clearing, and industrial plantation forest at Riau forest area had worsen the quality of the forest.  This is affecting the environment and life condition of Riau’s community, especially the indigenous people who live in and around the forest, the Talang Mamak community.

To develop the Alternative Media at post-conflict community in Poso to facilitate the social re-integration process and access to agrarian resources. SAINS have been involving with the community in the above 7 villages since early 2007, and discovered that one of the main causes of Poso’s lengthy conflict is agrarian inequality (i.e. cocoa low price, limited land access), therefore the conflict cannot be solved by solving the religion-difference problem only (as generally assumed that religion-diversity is the root of the problem in Poso’s conflict).  SAINS proposed that an alternative media (i.e. community bulletin and radio program) can be explored, so that the community can voice their concerns, and utilize this media for reconciliation forum, peace campaigning, and knowledge sharing forum.  The SELARAS women group that received micro credit from SAINS, can also play a role as widespread medium for enhancing the reintegration process among different groups in the targeted villages.

To provide capacity building trainings to leaders of People's Organization on Leadership; To support advocacy on the importance of engagement with government agencies especially at the lowest leverl of its government - the barangays; and To provide continued para-legal literacy training especially on the typology of corruption at the barangay government, among others.

Audiovisual Data Base (Baseline Survey) of Ik Manem Mpur Adat Community at Northern Manokwari District, Papua

Samdhana has been supporting their Community Logging’s preparation phase (phase-1) in 2007 for recruiting & training of the local facilitators, and conducting workshop on various issues of Community Logging.  During year 2007, 651 farmers with 391 ha of community forest in Samigaluh and Kalibawang sub-districts have given their commitment to participate in this program, showing their needs/interest in this program. In year 2008 they wish to continue the process with recruiting and training of the cadres/young farmers (who will be working with the local facilitators) to speed up the target achievement of 1000 ha forest area.  They will also start with the initial identification and inventory activity in the community’s forest. All the above are heading to the Forest Certification program, which is the pre-condition for a welfare community, through which they will have a better forest management system.

To support a 2-day workshop in the Bengkulu Community Congress, to be held in April 2008.  The congress’ theme is “Building community’s movement to take strategic position in the management of life resources in Bengkulu Province”, while the workshop goal is to boost indigenous people (IP)’s participation in drafting the policy of Bengkulu’s natural resource management, and to build common understanding among stakeholders in IP’s trial jurisprudence of conflict resolution in forestry and natural resource management in Bengkulu.  The congress will be facilitated by several NGOs (AKAR Foundation, WALHI Bengkulu, Kelola, YKS), and expected to be participated by 1000 people.