WIN stands for the dignity, rights, and prosperity of Guyana’s Indigenous and Amerindian peoples.

Honouring Our First Peoples, Investing in Their Future

Our Commitment

For too long, Indigenous and hinterland communities have been underserved, facing crumbling roads, unsafe water, limited healthcare, and under-resourced schools. WIN is committed to reversing decades of neglect by putting our Indigenous brothers and sisters at the heart of national development.

Protecting Land & Rights

  • Revise the Amerindian Act (2006) to strengthen ancestral land rights in line with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

  • Heritage Land Security: Legal protection of Indigenous intellectual property, heritage sites, and cultural knowledge.

  • Climate Justice: Increase carbon credit payouts to Indigenous villages from current levels to 25%, ensuring fair recognition of environmental stewardship.

Economic Empowerment

Eco-Tourism Development: Identify tourism-ready villages; build eco-friendly visitor centres, craft markets, and trails; train locals as guides, artisans, and managers.

Conditional Cash Transfers: Ensure that wealth from natural resources is shared directly with hinterland residents.

Hinterland Marketplace: Print & digital platform to advertise and sell Indigenous products.

Indigenous Credit Union: Partner with the NTC to provide low-interest loans for agriculture, ecotourism, logging, and small businesses.

Education & Skills

  • School Access & Modernisation: Build and modernise schools, including dormitories.

  • Teacher Training & Retention: Recruit and retain Indigenous teachers; provide ongoing professional development.

  • Decentralised Training: Bring GSA and technical institutes closer to communities for vocational training.

  • Free School Transport: Scheduled boats for schoolchildren in riverine communities.

  • Multilingual Inclusion: Bridging programs for Indigenous and minority language speakers.

Infrastructure & Transportation

  • 🚜 Weather-Proof Roads & Bridges: Build all-weather transport routes that connect communities year-round.

  • 🛳 Reliable River Transport: Free scheduled boats for schoolchildren and affordable cargo transport for farmers.

  • ✈ Affordable Air Travel: State-owned aircraft to reduce travel costs for hinterland residents and boost tourism.

Climate Resilience & Environment

  • 🌊 Seawall Expansion & Mangrove Restoration to protect coastal Indigenous communities.

  • 💧 Smart Water Management for safe drinking water and irrigation.

  • 🛡 Climate Adaptation Priority for Indigenous & rural communities.

Health & Wellbeing

  • 🏥 Upgraded Health Facilities: Modernise cottage hospitals and health centres with better equipment.

  • 🚑 Village Water Ambulances: Reintroduce for emergency medical response in remote areas.

  • ⚕ Health Equity: Ensure doctors, nurses, and medics are present and well-compensated in hinterland communities.

  • 🦟 Climate-Linked Health Monitoring: Track and combat dengue, malaria, and other climate-related diseases.

Leadership & Representation

  • 🏛 Increased Stipends: Raise stipends for Toshaos, Deputy Toshaos, Councillors, CSOs, and CIIPs workers.

  • 🤝 Direct Consultation: Regular policy dialogues with the National Toshaos Council to ensure Indigenous voices shape national decisions.

When we invest in nationhood, we uplift every region and every people.