Lifespace

Samdhana works on the interconnectedness of mountains and plains, rivers and seas, and people and places with systematic approaches that encompass the socio-political-economic-natural-cultural drivers of local communities development and well-being across generations based on their perception and appreciation. Through the lifescape approach, we work with IPLC partners to secure rights, improve livelihoods, and conserve ecological functions and biodiversity in a particular land and/or seascape. Here, we support the movement for transitioning away from an extractive economy, towards a system that gives priority to healthy and living lands, seas, and empowered IPLCS, to mainstream local, indigenous, and living solutions.

Project

Strategic Collaborative Responses Towards Environmental Sustainability (SCORES) Project

Project Objectives/ Outputs:

Objective 1: Indigenous governance strengthening and participatory formulation of Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan (ADSDPP) or community development plans

Output – Two (2) Calamian Tagbanwa ancestral domains increased their conservation efforts, through integration of conservation into the ADSDPP, and improved rights…

Weaving Connectedness, Healing Barren Hills, Managing Tribes’s Forests

Decades of hard effort of advocacy and policy works on Indigenous Peoples rights is coming to fruition. In particular are the recognition of Indigenous communities, their lands and territories, and their customary forests. To fully seize these opportunities and momentum, the Indigenous Peoples in Tanah Papua need to address the challenges they currently face.

Project Goal

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Forests for a Just Future – Green Livelihood Alliance (GLA 2) - Northern Mindanao Landscape

Project objectives

The project wants to strategically address those issues following the three pathways of the GLA 2 programme. Specifically, the project objectives are:

To help build capacities of two Indigenous communities in asserting their rights, through strengthening of their Indigenous Political Structure and supporting the CADT application process;

To build capacities of…

ABCD In Food: Agro-Bio-Cultural Diversity of Indigenous Food Systems of Calamian Tagbanwa and Higaonon (2021-2022)

Project objectives

The overall aim of “ABCD In Food” is to strengthen resilience among indigenous communities through the protection and promotion of their diverse agricultural, biological, and cultural systems.

Specific Objectives:

To conserve and promote indigenous traditional food sources, through documentation of IKSP on traditional agriculture and food system,…

Increasing Tagbanwa Women and Youth Capacity in Traditional Foods Conservation (2019-2022)

Project objectives

To support the Calamian Tagbanwa community-led conservation of traditional food sources for improved food security and assertion of rights.

Specifically, the project aims to:

Document traditional food sources in the ancestral domain, along with Indigenous Knowledge, Practices and Systems (IKSP) on food production management and conservation;

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Working with Communities in the Land of Papua to Secure Rights, Improve Livelihoods, and Conserve Forest and Biodiversity (2021-2023)

Project objectives

By 2023, at least 40 communities/local groups in the Mamta, Domberai and Anim Ha indigenous regions of Papua will have been connected in terms of their knowledge, economies and overall solidarity. Together, these communities will grow their own capacity and capability to secure their rights and livelihoods, and conserve forests and agrobiodiversity. This will ultimately…