FIMI's work focuses on the following program areas:

International Advocacy and Women's Political Participation

  • FIMI works to increase the role of Indigenous women in international-decision making processes and to ensure that Indigenous women's perspectives are consistently and seriously included in all discussion of human rights. FIMI promotes the effective placement of Indigenous women in positions of local and national government and other policy-making bodies . . . Read More

Human Rights Training and Capacity-Building

  • FIMI offers trainings to support our Indigenous women members, helping them strengthen their organizations and build leadership and advocacy skills. FIMI trainings help participants improve communication with their base. They also give participants the skills they need to influence social, cultural, political, and economic debates in the local, regional, and international arenas . . . Read More

Alliance Building

  • An important part of FIMI's strategy is to promote collaboration between the Indigenous women's movement and the non-Indigenous global women's movement. Specifically, FIMI is working to make the feminist movement more inclusive, and to develop a sustainable development agenda that can be adopted by the global women's human rights movement . . . Read more

Indigenous Women's Fund

  • In the last few decades, an Indigenous Women's Fund has been a dream of Indigenous women. In fact, in the Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women it was agreed that a fund for Indigenous Women would be established as FIMI's "economic and philanthropic arm" to provide resources for Indigenous women from all 7 geo-cultural regions defined by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues . . . Read more