Piloting project with 12 Indigenous grassroots organizations and three Indigenous governing entities to strengthen how Inga and Kamnts communities relate to and manage their lands.

A number of Inga and Kam?nts Indigenous groups in Putumayos Sibundoy Valley only gained legal recognition of their collective territories in the past decade.

This means that these groups have yet to develop a shared, strategic approach to governing and managing their environmentally important lands at the crossroads of the Andes and Amazon regions. The IAF invests in community-led approaches to managing natural resources sustainably.

IAF grantee Fundacion Alpasamay (Alpasamay) is carrying out a pilot project with 12 Indigenous grassroots organizations and three Indigenous governing entities to strengthen how Inga and Kam?nts communities relate to and manage their lands.

Communities and Indigenous authorities are learning to map and mark their borders physically and digitally using GIS software and educating themselves on the ancestral and environmental value of their territories.

In this way, Alpasamay will increase the capacity of Indigenous organizations to engage with municipal and environmental authorities about land-use strategies and planning, and thereby improving their living conditions.