Deadline: 30 November 2024
The Cultural Survival is pleased to announce its call for proposals for Indigenous Youth Fellowships to support individuals or groups of young Indigenous communicators, activists, artists, creatives and visionaries to develop their capacities, training, research, production and creation aimed at strengthening their cultural identity and leadership.
Youth leadership development is an integral part of ensuring the wellness of communities, and Indigenous youth are the future of that well-being.
Themes
- Focused on any of the following 13 themes:
- Preparedness or Response to Climate Crisis
- Environmental and biodiversity protection
- Indigenous Rights & Legal Mechanism
- Defense of land and territory (ex: investigative journalism)
- Preservation and revitalization of Indigenous languages
- Recovery of cosmogony and ancestry
- Indigenous Gender Diversity
- Indigenous community media (radio, audiovisual, digital security, etc)
- Preservation of Traditional Practices (medicine, agriculture, storytelling, etc)
- Research of traditional knowledge systems
- Maintenance of ecosystem services (water, land, etc)
- Food sovereignty & Indigenous Economy
- Cultural Artistic Expression (audiovisual, performing arts, creative writing, arts and crafts).
Funding Information
- Award Amount: up to 6,000 US Dollars
- Execution Period: 10 months
Eligibility Criteria
- This year the fellowship program will offer support to individuals’ youth with or groups of Indigenous multidisciplinary creative and visionary concepts.
- Applicants must be able to work independently and be responsible for implementing their project. Fellows will work closely with Cultural Survival staff and a local mentor (a person who can advise, reinforce, and provide feedback to achieve the proposed goals voluntarily) throughout the fellowship process.
- Be Indigenous youth between the ages of 17 to 28 years.
- Have access to the internet and other forms of virtual communication.
- Committed to collaborating with Cultural Survival & meeting deadlines.
- Preferably fluent in an Indigenous language or interested in learning it.
- Not a former Cultural Survival Youth Fellow
- Reside in the eligible countries: In North America: United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. In South America: Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Brazil. In Asia: Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Papua Guinea, and India. In Africa: Ghana, Cameroon, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, and Kenya.
For more information, visit Cultural Survival.
