Description

This area is devoted to advising local organizations that maintain partnerships with ISA: the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of the Rio Negro (FOIRN), located in the state of Amazonas; the Xingu Indigenous Territory Association (ATIX), in Mato Grosso; and the Panará Indians’ Iakiô Indigenous Association, in Mato Grosso. ISA seeks to understand the ways in which each indigenous association conceives and interprets the organization of its work, with the aim of strengthening their institutional capacity for managing projects financed through national and international cooperation. ISA also works with the quilombo communities (black populations of refugee slave descendants) in the Ribeira Valley region in São Paulo state concerning aspects of the formulation, administration, and financial management of their projects. ISA’s administrative training activities involve long-term commitments, since they entail developing methodologies oriented specifically toward formulating differentiated modes for indigenous and traditional populations to conduct and administer projects, and, at the same time, follow the guidelines of funding agencies.

Team

Coordinator: Marina Kahn (social scientist)
Assistant: José Strabeli (social scientist)

Partnerships and funding sources

Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation (NORAD) [nota no original: tirar o PNPI, caso confirmem aquilo que sugeri em email anterior]
Ford Foundation (up to 2002)
Rainforest Foundation-United States (RF-US), for the Panará Project (up to 2003)