Mapping Indigenous Realities: Data-Driven Approaches to Rights and Self-determination

This special edition of Debates Indí­genas focuses on the Indigenous Navigator and brings together voices from Kenya, Nepal, Chile, Bangladesh, and Colombia to showcase how Indigenous communities are using data to assert their rights, shape their futures, and strengthen their self-determination.

The Indigenous Navigator is a tool and framework created by and for Indigenous Peoples that enables communities to document their realities, monitor the implementation of their rights, and design projects that reflect their priorities.

Whether as a means for Indigenous Peoples to strengthen governance and development, preserve culture and identity, secure access to basic needs, ensure the self-management of data and knowledge, or bolster advocacy and political activism, data becomes a catalyst for collective empowerment. Each story in this edition illustrates this.