goals
The Sustainable Indigenous Futures (SIF) Fund aims to support indigenous organisations based in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in their rehabilitation process after the tsunami. Nicobarese peoples are supported to negotiate their own future under new conditions. Emphasis is on activities that promote self-relying, self-organising and resilience capacities inherent in the indigenous peoples as well as to enhance disaster preparedness.
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© Simron Jit Singh | © Simron Jit Singh |
Fishing and the growing of fruits and vegetables are new economic bases for the Nicobarese, who lost most coconut plantations in the tsunami. | |
The SIF Fund provides financial support to indigenous organisations and, upon request, guidance in the realisation of ecologically sustainable, economically feasible, culturally appropriate and socially equitable projects. The SIF Fund takes care to avoid mutual dependencies between itself and the communities it supports.