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LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP
The Leadership Fellows Program is a year-long hybrid leadership
training established in 2019 to strengthen emergent leaders from
Nia Tero’s trust-based partnerships. The program is modeled
after Indigenous teaching methods and concepts of leadership
with the goal to enhance leadership development and succession,
contributing to guardianship of territories.
The program is divided into two key moments: 1) a six-month
long training period in partnership with LifeMosaic and 2) a
six-month project implementation phase. Participants include the
Achuar from Ecuador, Akawaio and Patamona from Guyana, the
Wayana from Suriname, and the Tiriyo and Wayana from Brazil.
During the first half of 2022, the program was in the project
implementation phase, in which 20 fellows and peers coordinated
with their community leaders and worked collaboratively on a
project of choice. Projects included sexual offenses awareness
workshops, community-based tourism, solar lamp installations,
elaboration of handicrafts, food preservation, and waste
management initiatives. The latter half of 2022 focused on the
selection of fellows for the 2023 cohort and adaptation
of the curriculum.
POLICY APPRENTICESHIP
In 2022, Nia Tero’s Policy team launched the Policy Apprenticeship
Program, seeking to strengthen Indigenous organizations
in influencing global public policies that are applied at the
regional, national, and local levels, directly and indirectly
impacting their territories.
The program facilitates programming with established leaders
and mentors alongside apprentices, all of which are part of
the Amazonian organizations of their countries (five in total):
Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname.
Indigenous Leaders and Mentors: With their experience
in advocacy and territorial, national, and global work, they
support the learning process imparted with a practical scope.
Indigenous Policy Apprentices: Having a leadership role in
their territories and organizations, the Policy Apprentices
have been delegated as liaisons to strengthen collective
knowledge on the specialized topics reviewed in the training.
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