| Affiliation with other organizations: |
WACC has a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cultural Survival, an international, US-based Indigenous rights organizations. Under this MoU, WACC and Cultural Survival has have provided technical and financial support – , as well as access to knowledge- sharing opportunities – , to dozens of Indigenous community radio stations in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Nepal, and South Africa. Some of the organizations WACC has supported include Radio Namobuddha (Kavre district, Nepal), Radio Sumhatlung (Panchthar District, Nepal), Radio Likhu (Sunuwar nation, Nepal), Radio Xilotepeq (Maya Pocomam, Guatemala), AEPDI (Maya Q'eqchi, Guatemala),Radio Sinakan ( Kaqchikel, Guatemala), Radio Lumad (Philippines), Indigenous Media Foundation (Nepal), and Tayrona Estereo, (Kankuamo, Colombia). This partnership has enabled thousands of Indigenous communities to exercise their communication through greater access to information, enhanced communication platforms, and increased leadership capacity. WACC is working to integrate Indoigenous people into its work in more systematic ways beyond simply providing access to funds. |
| Confirmation of the activities of the organization at the regional, national or international level: |
At the local and national level, WACC has been providing support to Indigenous broadcasters and networks of Indigenous broadcasters in order to enable them to exercise human rights such as Freedom of Expression and Access to Information. At the international level, WACC is hoping to attend the UNPFII in 2020 and to invite three of its partners (one from Colombia, one from Guatemala, and one from Nepal) to attend as delegates in order for them to better understand global-level processes. WACC will also organize a side event in New York City in partnership with Cultural Survival on the relationship between Indigenous communication and SDG 16.
The work of all partners receiving support from WACC and Cultural Survival contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 16-Peace, Justice, and Institutions, and to the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
WACC and Cultural Survival believe that the communication dimension of Indigenous rights is critical to realizing such rights, and that access to Indigenous community media, especially community radio, is a critical for Indigenous people to be able to the exercise their broader human rights and help shape sustainable development agendas. |
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