TFT Papua is a registered civil society organization. We work to nurture grassroots community organisations across the region, as leaders of our own development. We build communities’ capacity to act on their fundamental human rights (economic, political, social and cultural); to organise themselves in ways that best represent their identity and shared interests; and, to manage their own land and resources. We are inspired by Training for Transformation in Practice, the international network of popular development educators and community workers, based in Kleinmond, South Africa.

Papua’s indigenous communities live on the front line of the climate emergency and the expansion of extractive industries as well as other destructive practises. It is becoming harder to farm and to fish as weather becomes increasingly unpredictable. At the same time, rural communities are under threat of losing land to practises of land grabbing.

In Okaba, Merauke district, communities have lost up to 9 metres of Coastline a year to the sea since 2010. In an area of expanding agribusiness, they have less room to adapt and survive.

In Numfor and Raja Ampat, rising sea levels are eating the land and destroying our ancestral graves. The recent protests on the expansion of Nickel Mining in Raja Ampat were driven by the profound threats to the pristine marine resources and community’s livelihood, posed by the extractive practises.

Contact us

Yayasan Pengembangan Pelatihan untuk Perubahan Sosial di Tanah Papua
(YP3SP)

Jalan Karya Tanah Hitam Permai

Abepura Jayapura

Papua

Email: info@papuatransformation.org