The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a United Nations agency. Its Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility (IPAF) is an innovative funding instrument that communities can use to create solutions to the challenges they face. The objective of the Facility is to strengthen Indigenous Peoples’ communities and their organizations. It finances projects that foster self-driven development.

The International Indigenous Women’s Forum (FIMI) is a global mechanism that assembles Indigenous Women activists and human rights leaders from around the world (Asia, Arctic, America, Africa and the Pacific) to strengthen capacities, develop leadership and build a common political agenda.

The AYNI - Indigenous Women’s Fund is FIMI’s philanthropic arm and is the first and only fund created and directed by and for Indigenous Women. It fosters innovative intercultural philanthropy to support women of indigenous organizations and communities, co-investing human, financial and material resources for the promotion of the full exercise of their individual and collective rights and of their buen vivir (well-being).