Gwich’in Council International
WebsiteYellowknife, NT

Founding Year: 1999

Staff: 9

Budget:

Devlin Fernandes (Executive Director)

Is a nonprofit organization that “represents 9,000 Gwich’in in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Yukon, and Alaska as a Permanent Participant in the Arctic Council; the only international organization to give Indigenous peoples a seat at the decision-making table alongside national governments.”

Projects:

 

Gwich’in Council International contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals


  Organization Type

Non Profit

  Geographic Foci

National

 Subjects

Democracy/Rule of Law|Indigenous Peoples

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