Capacity Building

Through the Capacity Building Program, Cultural Survival provides opportunities through youth fellowships, trainings, gatherings and community exchanges, international forum participation, networking, one-on-one mentoring, and residency opportunities. Our goal is to increase and strengthen Indigenous communities’ leadership, technical, organizational, advocacy, and sustainability capacities to exercise their rights to freedom of expression, self-determination, and ways of living, and to elevate their cultures and languages.

CAPACITY BUILDING HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2022:

We hosted a series of online workshops for Indigenous women frontline defenders in the Amazon Basin with participants from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.

We awarded 20 Indigenous Youth Fellowships, supporting 27 youth.

We supported two Indigenous writers as part of our new Indigenous Writers Residency. Conducted two capacity building workshops on radio production in two Indigenous communities in Panama. Trained 20 Ngäbe youth.

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Indigenous Youth Fellowships awarded

14 Indigenous women trained through a series of 16 workshops

2 Indigenous writers supported as part of our new Indigenous Writers Residency