Strengthening indigenous organisations to defend their rights and manage their territories The project seeks to increase indigenous peoples' contributions to reducing deforestation and the effects of climate change, ensuring the maintenance of sociobiodiversity in their territories. The specific objectives inlcude indigenous peoples cooperating and actively defending and promoting their rights; indigenous strategies for territorial control and environmental management strengthened in regions where CTI operates; and CTI institutionally strengthened, better prepared to carry out its mission in favour of the indigenous agenda. Direct beneficiaries of the activities to strengthen institutional capacity of indigenous organizations: Wyty Cate of the Timbira Peoples of Maranhão and Tocantins, the Xavante Warã Association, the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Indigenous Land of the Javari Valley – UNIVAJA, the Yvyrupa Guarani Commission – CGY and the Terena People's Council. In addition, there are the beneficiaries of activities to support the regularization and strengthening of UNIVAJA's grassroots associations (AKAVAJA, AIKUVAJA, OAMI, ASDEC, AMAS, AIMA AND OGM) as well as the support to Timbira community associations.