Indigenous Information Network
We PROTECT, PROMOTE, EMPOWER AND BUILD CAPACITY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
About Us
Who we are
Indigenous Information Network (IIN) works on both development issues that affect and impact on Indigenous Peoples and local communities with a main focus on women children youth and other vulnerable members of our communities. Indigenous information Network (IIN) recognizes that conservation and protection of Our Environment is key and plays an important role in our lives as it is that environment we depend on for survival. IIN is a non-profit, volunteer-run non-governmental organization (NGO) registered in the Republic of Kenya. The organization was founded in 1996 by a group of professionals in response to addressing the need for information through media and other channels about Indigenous Peoples, their livelihoods, and the challenges they
Our Mission
dissemination of information, environmental conservation activities, community development, and advocacy activities in support of Indigenous Peoples, women, girls and boys, youth and other isolated minorities in the region
Activities
December 2020
Viva girls trainings took place at Kiltamany,Ololulunga,Poroko,Oldonyo enkopit,Melelo,Naramum,,Oloimismis,Enoretet,Lolgorian and Marsabit were trained in December about health reproductive rights,education issues,peer pressure,harmful cultural practices and poverty
September 2020
Women workshops took place at Narok county(Kilgoris and Ololulunga) and Namanga(Tanzania).The workshop was about community dialogue,economic empowerment and Indigenous womens’ rights respectively
August 2020
Several trainings for both women and girls took place in various places.They gave an overview of how covid 19 has impacted them.
Our vision
PROTECT, PROMOTE, EMPOWER AND BUILD CAPACITY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Links of Interest
- The African Women’s Development Fund
- International Indian Treaty Council
- International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs
- Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Network
- United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- DoCip – Centre for Documentation, Research and Information
- Traditional knowledge and the CBD
- .African Indigenous women organization
- Indigenous Womens exchange
- .UN Women
- International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity
- Madre
