Programme collaboration

Support to strategic more long-term initiatives (2 years or longer) constitute the bulk of the Collaborative Programme. The direct partners are mainly intermediary organisations (NGOs, networks, independent policy/research institutes etc) with a international and/or wider regional scope. The intermediary organisations work both with capacity-building among local communities, indigenous peoples and national NGOs and also link the work of their collaborative partners with the development of tools, methods and policies and with advocacy.

SwedBio primarily (but not exclusively) collaborates with organisations not receiving other support through Swedish development cooperation.

SwedBio presently gives programme support to the following organisations:

• African Biodiversity Network (ABN) and GAIA
• Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
• Birdlife International
• The Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR)
• The Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT)
• The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC-group)
• The Forest and the European Union Research Network (FERN)
• Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)
• Global Forest Coalition (GFC)
• Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP)
• GRAIN
• International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
• The League for Pastoral Peoples (LPP)
• Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP)
• South East Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE)
• Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
• Tebtebba Foundation
• Third World Network (TWN)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
• World Resources Institute (WRI)