National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peru

The National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peru (ONAMIAP) is a non-governmental organization founded in 2009 in Peru. It promotes the individual and collective rights of indigenous women, youth, and girls. The organization is made up of regional, provincial, and district-level women's organizations and federations whose leaders have gained experience as leaders within peasant patrols (rondas campesinas), the Vaso de Leche program, community kitchens, and mothers' clubs, among other collective action groups. ONAMIAP uses strategies of visibility and political advocacy at the communal, regional, and national levels to improve governance and sustainability of territory through the participation of indigenous women. It participates internationally through the United Nations Climate Change Conferences, including COP20 in Lima in 2014 and COP23 in Bonn in 2017. Its activities also include promoting women's rights through social projects that include training, bulletins, publications, and audiovisuals. The organization's official website states that it is an organization of Andean and Amazonian indigenous women fighting for the full exercise of their collective and individual rights, continuing the ancestral resistance of their peoples and projecting toward a political horizon of Buen Vivir and Vida Plena. It frames its history as beginning more than 500 years ago with the European invasion of the territories now called Peru, and it understands extractivism, racism, machismo, and classism as continuities of colonialism, having begun a process of decolonizing its thinking, feeling, and doing to advance toward the decolonization of the country. ONAMIAP's base organizations include the Organización de Comunidades Indígenas de Mujeres Shiwilu (OCIDMUSHI), the Federación de Mujeres Campesinas de Anta (FEMCA), the Asociación Distrital de Mujeres del Carmen de la Frontera (ADMUCAF), the Federación de Rondas Campesinas Femeninas del Norte del Perú (FEROCAFENOP), the Federación de Mujeres Indígenas de la Provincia de Atalaya (FEMIPA), the Organización Regional de Mujeres Indígenas de la Región Ucayali (ORDEMI), the Organización de Mujeres Indígenas Amazónicas Ashaninkas de la Selva Central (OMIAASEC), and the Organización de Mujeres Originarias Aimaras del Collao Ilave (OMOACI).

ONAMIAP was founded in 2009 in Peru as a non-governmental organization. It brings together regional, provincial, and district-level organizations and federations of indigenous and peasant women. Its leaders emerged from collective action spaces such as rondas campesinas, the Vaso de Leche program, community kitchens, and mothers' clubs. The organization's own historical narrative places its origins in over 500 years of resistance since the European invasion of the territories now called Peru, framing contemporary struggles against extractivism, racism, machismo, and classism as continuities of colonialism. ONAMIAP has pursued a process of decolonizing its thinking, feeling, and doing, aiming toward the decolonization of the country. It has engaged in political advocacy at communal, regional, and national levels to improve governance and territorial sustainability through indigenous women's participation. Internationally, it has participated in United Nations Climate Change Conferences, including COP20 in Lima in 2014 and COP23 in Bonn in 2017. Its work includes social projects, training, bulletins, publications, and audiovisuals. Notable publications include "Mujeres y territorio: La lucha por el reconocimiento y la participación de las mujeres indígenas, andinas y amazónicas en el Perú" (2020) by Roxana Vergara Rodríguez, published by ONAMIAP and Oxfam América, and "Consulta previa en minería: Manual de capacitación para mujeres indígenas" (2016) with contributions from Ketty Marcelo, Gladis Vila, and twenty-two indigenous women leaders, published by ONAMIAP and GIZ.

• 2020

  Publishes "Mujeres y territorio" with Oxfam América.

• 2017

  Participates in the UN Climate Change Conference COP23 in Bonn.

• 2016

  Publishes "Consulta previa en minería: Manual de capacitación para mujeres indígenas" with GIZ.

• 2014

  Participates in the UN Climate Change Conference COP20 in Lima.

• 2009

  ONAMIAP is founded in Peru.

Advocacy and rights organization for Andean and Amazonian indigenous women in Peru, working toward structural change and decolonization.

1. 1ONAMIAP official websiteonamiap.org
2. 2Wikidata entry for National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peruwikidata.org
3. 3Wikipedia (Spanish) article on Organización Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas Andinas y Amazónicas del Perúes.wikipedia.org