Objectives

The Wajãpi Programme aims to provide direct support to Wajãpi initiatives for the territorial and environmental control of their land, strengthening their ability to manage development alternatives appropriate to their reality. The Programme’s educational and cultural valorization activities, designed for the training of young people and adults, are also aimed at strengthening the Wajãpi’s ability to act in defense of the interests of their communities, contributing as such to the self-determination of their people.

Within the different thematic areas covered by the Wajãpi programme, various activities have been developed with the aims of helping the Wajãpi to:

• Maintain their quality of life – which depends on their territorial mobility – in terms defined by the communities themselves, minimizing the negative impact of their current dependency on assistance and the acquisition of the consumer goods already incorporated into their daily lives.
• Improve their internal organization and their ability to make collective decisions, involving all of the different Wajãpi communities and factions. Increase, in this way, their ability to maintain permanent social control over the assistance initiatives offered by diverse government and non-government agencies.
• Prepare themselves to deal with new demands, whether through the acquisition of technical knowledge which enables them to carry out and/or to accompany projects related to their interests, or through the consolidation of internal channels of dialogue between the various Wajãpi groups and generations and the strengthening of their collective organization.
• Understand, distinguish between and know how to relate to the diverse interests held by individuals and organizations, both national and international, in relation to the Wajãpi and their territory.