At Cultural Survival, we recognize the importance of Indigenous media as platforms through which Indigenous
Peoples share their stories, struggles, knowledge, and visions for the future. This media is essential for
amplifying their voices, preserving their memory, and ensuring the continuity of their Traditional Knowledge.

Since 2017, Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Fund has supported Indigenous Peoples’ efforts to
foster intercultural dialogue, promote intergenerational knowledge exchange, and strengthen community
collaboration. It has also helped Indigenous Peoples exercise their right to free and informed decision-making
to achieve good living, harmonious coexistence, respect for diversity, and to define and sustain their own
narratives.

From its inception, the Indigenous Community Media Fund has provided a total of 455 grants supporting community
media projects in 42 countries across 4 continents, for a total of $3,086,561.  In 2026, the Fund provided a
total of $257,000 in funding to 36 Indigenous communication projects in 23 countries across the Americas, Asia,
and Africa. Projects will be implemented in Argentina, Bolivia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines,
South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, the United States, and Zimbabwe.

The 36 funded projects will focus on strengthening media infrastructure, acquiring equipment, building capacity,
and producing content on topics such as climate change, territorial defense, natural disaster response, and the
strengthening of Indigenous cultures, languages, and communication.

We are pleased to present the 36 funded projects from the 2026 cycle, described here with their consent:

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