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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline: October 27, 2017

Keepers of the Earth Fund

Cultural Survival is pleased to announce the Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF) Call for Applications. The KOEF is a small grants fund that supports Indigenous values-based community development.  These grants have supported Indigenous-led projects on the leading edge of solutions to the most pressing issues for Indigenous Peoples everywhere.  

The first world conference for one of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN Ocean Conference, focused on SDG Goal 14: Life Below Water, to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.”  Fiji and Sweden co-chaired and coordinated the June 5 - 9, 2017 global gathering at the UN headquarters in New York. More than 6,000 people from all sectors of society attended the conference where 150 events and 41 exhibits were held.

By John McPhaul

In October 2016, a number of Costa Rican Indigenous representatives attended a meeting in the regional hub of Buenos Aires in southern Costa Rica. Called by the government’s Ministry of the Presidency as part of a consultation process, the meeting was an opportunity for Indigenous Peoples to voice their opposition to a giant dam proposed on the Diquis Reservoir that would inundate part of their land.

On July 6, 2017, two of the banks financing the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam construction in Honduras pulled their funding for the project. The European development banks, namely The Netherlands Development Finance Institution and the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation, had been conducting an international and regional study for many months in order to determine whether or not to withdraw their support. On July 6th, they finalized their decision to cease support, and ultimately concluded that local officials and peoples of Honduras should be the ones to decide how the project continues. The banks said they halted their involvement in the  the controversial dam in response to the attacks against local activists opposing its construction, including the murder of Berta Cáceres.
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