General small grantsmaking:

1. To provide flexible and direct funding support to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Southeast Asia, in line with Samdhana’s areas of work;
2. To provide capacity building support to Grantee-Partners to enable them to better manage their grant projects and resources;

Support and Recovery from Pandemic:

1. Provide direct support to IPLCs who are addressing rights and environment-related issues that had been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, and carrying out initiatives in the assertion of their rights and/or advancing their own development;

2. Provide/ support capacity development to IPLCs and grassroots organizations to address issues or needs that emerged from the pandemic, such as ability and access to communication, increase access to local food and water security, access to online education, reactive policies, mental health, among others; and

3. Provide institutional support to local and grassroots organizations that do strategic work in the advancement of IPLCs rights, but may have been negatively affected by the pandemic, as stop-gap measure.