Members of AIPP

Nepal Indigenous Disabled Association (NIDA)

Established in 2009 with the group of people belonging to Magar, Rai, Tharu, Danuwar etc. ethnic groups, Nepal Indigenous Disabled Association (NIDA) is a national level federation-based organization affiliated to Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) and Member organization of National Federation of the Disabled Nepal (NFDN). It is single organization legally registered to work for indigenous persons with disabilities in Asia and is affiliated with Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP).

Nepal Indigenous Disabled Association (NIDA) have been working for protecting and promoting the human rights of IPWDs. Since its established period, NIDA has been engaged through UNDHR, ILO 169, UNDRIP, WCIP outcome document, CEDAW, CERD, CRC and CRPD to ensure the rights of IPWDs.

NIDA’s vision is to advocate on the core concerns of indigenous peoples and indigenous persons with disabilities such as in social, economic, cultural and political aspects. It has been coordinating with like-minded stakeholders to sensitize affirmative actions and disabled friendly environment as a human right issue to make inclusive society for all. Its main goal is to protect human rights and collective rights of IPWDs along with their meaningful participation in making policy level of disabilities.

Entity/Category of Registration: Non-Profit NGO
Place of issue: Government of Nepal Ministry of home Affair Kathmandu
Date of issue: June 17,2009

NGO-Federation of Nepalese Indigenous Nationalities (NGO-FONIN)

The “NGO-Federation of Nepalese Indigenous Nationalities (NGO-FONIN)” is an umbrella organization of the IPOs and IPs’ NGOs, which is an non-political, non-religion (non-sectarian), not-profit making, purely social development organizations run by the indigenous nationalities. This is registered at the Kathmandu District Administration Office of Government of Nepal under the Social Act 2034 and, affiliated with the Social Welfare Council. The aim of the Federation is to ensure the basic rights of the indigenous peoples (IPs) who are deprived of their rights being marginalized from the development process and bring them into the mainstream of development process in order to create a fair and equitable society by making collective efforts together with the like-minded organisations of the indigenous peoples. The federation with its central office at Dillibazar, Kathmandu has currently, 36 IPOs and IPs-NGOs of the indigenous peoples affiliated with it. NGO-FONIN has 104 member organization based on the community level and national level. It has also established district networks in 30 districts and working on IPs development activities.

NGO Federation of Nepalese Indigenous Nationalities (NGO-FONIN) founded in 2004, is an umbrella organization of indigenous peoples’ organizations (ethnic organizations and NGOs led, managed and run by indigenous peoples/nationalities). Although there were several other national level organizations in existence that dealt directly with Indigenous Nationalities’ this new, national federation was “formed to form a more representative Indigenous Nationalities (INs) organization and to facilitate all the issues of right-based development of INs”. More specifically, it intends to promote and protect the basic rights of the indigenous peoples who are deprived of their rights being marginalized from the development process and bring them into the mainstream of development process in order to create a fair and equitable society by making collective efforts together with the like- minded organizations of the indigenous peoples. All other organizations only focus and work for the 59 enlisted groups, and “have practice to exclude un-enlisted INs groups, but NGO-FONIN is open to all groups, regardless of their identity or recognition by the government”. From an initial forum called BAKULOCHANA (Bahing, Kulung, Lohorung, Chamling and Nachhiring) representing five non-recognized Kirati groups, which was basically formed to promote the rights of indigenous peoples to natural resources in line with the Article 8 (j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity, NGO-FONIN grew from the forum into a federation and has been contributing to enhance inclusion, equity, social justice empowering marginalized and excluded ethnic groups in cooperation of development partners namely Danish International Development Agency (Danida HUGOU), Enabling State Programe\Rights Democracy and Inclusion Fund (ESP\RDIF), Action Aid International Nepal(AAN), Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), United Nations Development Program\SPCBN, International Labor Organization (ILO)- Kathmandu, Netherlands Development Organizations (SNV-Nepal) along with the solidarity and coordination of other national and international indigenous and non-indigenous civil society organizations.

Vision:
Create an inclusive and equitable society free from discrimination.

Mission:
Facilitate the marginalized indigenous nationalities in their empowerment process to influence government authorities, policy makers to formulate appropriate policies and procedures with regard to social development and helping with their implementation to create an equitable and justful society.

Goal:
Promote access of IPs to different decision-making levels of the State through Empowerment.

Values:
In realising its aim and objectives, the Federation will strive for:

• Mutual respect and understanding
• Equitability and impartiality
• Meaningful Participation and Transparency
• Partnership and cooperation
• Sincerity
• Self-confession (self-criticism, self-evaluation)

National Indigenous Women’s Federation (NIWF)

NIWF is an umbrella organization of Indigenous Women’s organizations in Nepal. Established in 1999, the organization continues to work in policy advocacy, awareness raising, research, networking, capacity development and publication in securing both collective and individual rights of Indigenous women in Nepal. In 21 years existence of NIWF, among the major achievement is the indigenous women’s representation within indigenous peoples’ organizations directed towards ending the multiple-discrimination to indigenous women, recognition of diversity within women by the State, and political representation of indigenous women in every state organ and bodies etc. NIWF has succeeded to establish the proportionate representation of indigenous women within indigenous peoples’ organizations. These serve as inspiration in the continuing fight against multiple-discrimination among indigenous women. For the recent years, NWIF embarked on researches, education and training related to indigenous women identity, culture, literacy, indigenous peoples rights among others. An ongoing project which this Action will build on is the research on law/policy mapping from the perspective of women focusing on land rights. The add on of this Action is to particularize the potential of the free, prior and informed consent as arena for claiming rights in particular cases of hydropower, national park and private business in the territories of indigenous peoples.

Vision:
Society based on equality and equity with identity established.

Mission:
Make indigenous women visible enjoyment of inclusive democracy, human rights and social justice by indigenous women & men.

Goal:
Guarantee of indigenous women’s collective rights and gender equality in accordance with international laws and standards of human rights including UNDRIP & CEDAW.