Consolidating Indigenous territories along Rio Meta, to face new threats emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic

Indigenous people in Colombia?s Orinoqua region who already experienced chronic poverty have seen their livelihoods and health threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Violence threats and encroachment or exploitation of natural resources by outside interests and non-state armed groups have also increased during the pandemic. The IAF supports strategies to enhance the security of historically marginalized groups.

Our grantee Fundacin para el Etnodesarrollo de los Llanos Orientales de Colombia (Etnollano) is working with seven communities of Amora Sikuani and Sliva ethnic groups in Northern Vichada represented by a regional Indigenous organization the Organizacin Regional de los Pueblos Indgenas del Bajo Orinoco (ORPIBO) to implement a COVID-19 prevention and resilience strategy based on local knowledge and customs.