Building Capacity for Investors
First Peoples Worldwide builds investor understanding regarding the challenges faced by indigenous peoples when investment occurs without first soliciting their free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). First Peoples then builds capacity for investors to meaningfully consider indigenous peoples’ rights and interests in a human-rights based framework, and to operationalize their responsibility to respect the rights of indigenous peoples...
Empowering Indigenous Peoples
Historically, development projects and investment have excluded indigenous peoples from decision-making processes and yet the projects have had lasting impacts on their lands, territories, resources and rights. First Peoples Worldwide is seeking to shift this paradigm by amplifying indigenous peoples’ voice in the decision-making processes in support of indigenous peoples’ right to self-determined development as expressed in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...
Addressing the Impacts of Development on Women and Youth
Promoting the wellbeing of Indigenous women and youth is integral to ensuring a sustainable future. Where the impacts of development in Indigenous communities take on many forms – environmental, cultural, social – these impacts have a lasting effect on the health of the community, notably the livelihood and welfare of families. And, these impacts of development often have a direct effect on women and youth...