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Iepe - Instituto de Pesquisa e Formacao Indigena

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Biodiversity Climate Change Culture Decolonization Education Environment Human Rights Indigenous Peoples Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Indigenous women Social Development: Indigenous issues Sustainable Development: Biodiversity Climate change Education Forests
Geographic scope:	Regional Latin America and Caribbean
Country of activity:	Brazil
Millennium Development Goals:	Ensure environmental sustainability
Mission statement:	Iepé has as a mission to contribute for the cultural, political strengthening and the sustainable development of Amapá's and Northern Pará's indigenous communities, aiming the strengthening of their community and collective land management, for the rights of such populations as indigenous people to be respected. Throughout last year, three main objetives were set out: indigenous political strengthening, territorial and environmental management, and education and cultural valuation. The primary target of Iepé's work are the indigenous communities living the in area covered by the State of Amapá (Wajãpi, in the area of Amapari, and Karipuna, Palikur, Galibi-Marworno and Galibi Kali´na, in the area of Oiapoque) and Northern Pará (Tiriyó, Katxuyana, Wayana, Aparai, Zo´é, Waiwai, Tunayana, Kahyana, Hixkariyana and Txikiyana), as well as their representing organizations. In the last years, due to the widening of the work lines of the institution we also extended our actions to other social groups (such as RDS's extractive communities of Rio Iratapuru, the inhabitants of settlements of Perimetral Norte road and the quilombolas of the region of Trombetas), indigenous and environmentalist organizations, operating in Amapá and Northern Pará. Living in demarcated lands, with defined limits, presented to the indigenous communities the challenge of ensuring good life conditions for the current and future generations. To ensure the sustainable use of the existing natural resources in their territories, inspect the limits of their lands preventing invasions, and manage resources to meet the demands for a quality life became strategic actions nowadays. As holders of their own cultural traditions and specific world perspectives, Brazilian indigenous peoples have cultural rights acknowledged by the Constitution and the Brazilian State has devised specific policies to meet their needs and demands. Iepé seeks, with its actions, to support indigenous peoples for them to be able to maintain their ways of life and to have a dignified future, as culturally differentiated groups.
Year established:	2002
Year of registration:	2002
Organizational structure:	By counting with the current workforce of 35 employees, distributed through four offices (São Paulo, Macapá, Oiapoque and Santarém), Iepé is structured in 4 final programs (Wajãpi, Tumucumaque, Oiapoque and Zo´é) and a regional coordination advisory. Iepé's management structure is comprised by the member's meeting, maximum instance of the institution, which has met once a year to outline strategies and evaluate the work performed, in charge for the main institutional decisions. Formally, Iepé has a board of directors comprised by the president, treasurer and secretary, elected by the member's meeting. In the daily routine, Iepé is managed by an executive coordination, comprised by 2 professionals, responsible for the coordination of the activities, projects management, relationship with partners and financers, financial management and coordination of the work team. Iepé counts on a management sector, in charge of the financial and administration management of the institution. Widened board meetings are held whenever necessary for the establishment of institutional strategies and follow-up and monitoring of the activities and projects of the institution. The establishment of Iepé's action strategies, methodology and work instruments arise from a strong channel with representatives of the communities and indigenous peoples with whom we work, trying to answer for concrete demands of technical and political qualification laid out by them, being discussed, planned and operationalized in intense dialog and participation. Partnership, planning and evaluation meetings held between members of Iepé's end programs and such communities or with their organizations defined the strategic decision making, from which Iepé formulates projects and programs and seeks institutional partnerships to enable them. Besides such periodic meetings, monthly information on the progress of activities and projects are prepared by the program teams and widespread in a monthly internal newsletter, which circulates among the members of the team and financers, enabling the socialization of information and collective follow-up of the activities performed. All projects developed by the institution are annually audited by independent auditors and member's meetings are held periodically, moment in which institution's accounts are approved and strategic and institutional discussions are held.
Number and type of members:	Founding and active members: 17 Executive Coordination: 1 Executive Coordinator, 1 Deputy Executive Coordinator Administrative and Financial Sector: 1 Controller, 1 Finance Administrator, 1 Adjunct Finance Administrator, 1 Finance Administrator Assistant, 2 Administrative Assistants Regional Articulation Advisory: 2 Regional Articulation Assistants Wajãpi Program: 1 Program Coordinator, 2 Program Assistants, 1 Indigenous Researchers Formation Advisor, 1 Indigenous Health Formation Adjunct Coordinator, 2 Logistics Assistants Oiapoque Program: 1 Program Coordinator, 2 Program Assistants, 1 Anthropologic Advisor, 1 Administrative Assistant, 1 Logistics Assistant Tumucumaque Program: 1 Program Coordinator, 1 Coordination Assistant, 7 Program Assistants, 2 Logistics Assistant Zo’é Program: 1 Program Coordinator, 2 Program Assistants, 1 Logistics Assistant
Affiliation with NGO networks:	Amazon Cooperation Network
Funding structure:	Funds from other Non-Governmental Organizations Grants from Governments Foreign and international grants

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