Grants for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: GRIP

For many years (2002-2008) the administration of the Grants for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (GRIP) has been one of the main activities of NCIV.

Unfortunately, NCIV's Board has decided to close our Programme for the Promotion on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2005-2008), including GRIP as of 1 October 2008.

The reason for this is that NCIV's major donors (including the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cordaid) will not continue their support to NCIV's Programme after 2008, and as yet, no sufficient alternative funding has been found.

> If you have any ongoing issues or questions in this regard, please immediately contact NCIV to clear these up. It is important that you notify NCIV via this specific e-mail address: grip@nciv.net

NCIV regrets deeply to have to end this programme, but we are proud on the results achieved and to which NCIV was able to contribute, most notably the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the UN on 13 September 2007.

At present, NCIV is working hard to find alternative funding for a new programme of work and we will keep you posted in this regard.