EcoNusa Foundation is a nonprofit organization aiming to boost up various local initiatives at national and international levels in a bid to provide support to a sustainable and equal management of natural resources in Indonesia. EcoNusa Foundation, based in Jakarta, was officially founded on July 21, 2017 in Manokwari and Jakarta. EcoNusa encourages the development and capacity building of civil society group to perform advocacy, campaign, communication and stakeholder engagement strategy, and dialogue among stakeholders to meet natural resources management in sustainable manner while promoting equality, conservation, and transparent values. Vision To become a credible and influential agent of change in support of sustainable environmental development while promoting equality and conservation values. Mision • Building efforts for empowerment of local community. • Building equal partnership among parties. • Increasing awareness and knowledge to promote community behavioral change. • Doing natural resources compendium, management, and distribution. • Supporting public policy making that sides with equal and sustainable development. • Providing support to communication and stakeholders engagement strategies to local community organization. EcoNusa strives for accountability and transparency so as to become a credible and influential agent of change to meet the vision and mission for sustainable environment and humanity. Action Focus: • Forests and Biodiversity • Marine and Coastal Management • Climate and Energy • Eastern Indonesia regions Inisiatif Strategis: • School of EcoDiplomacy The goal of this program is to familiarize participants with emerging local, national and international “diplomacy” processes around environmental concerns, and the means by which agreements can be reached when dealing with a complex set of values and stakeholders. This is necessary to build a bright future as tools to defend environment and humanity. Corporations, governments, and community activists struggle to find common ground in resource-based conflicts that often becomes intractable. An impasse on environmental conflicts might hamper the implementation of potential conservation priorities and economic development opportunities. The course attempts to lure participants to find the most efficient way to engage in environmental diplomacy while recognizing the importance of constructive confrontation in cases of social justice. The participants will learn about options such as legal actions or sanctions. They will also study on how to negotiate between parties based on agreements despite the differing environmental values and assumption on ecological science. • East Hub for Communication and Stakeholders Engagement The Foundation aims to provide strategy and space for voicing the nature, indigenous rights, social and environmental leaders particularly those in the eastern regions in Indonesia. EcoNusa tries to build a bridge for a constructive engagement with national and international governments including business sectors. • Indigenous Entrepreneurships EcoNusa provides supports to indigenous initiative for livelihood with direct impact to the peoples’ lives as income generator and for the protection of forest biodiversity and marine life. • Papua Conservation Fund The Foundation builds a pool of fund to support local initiative, easy access, and responsible, transparent, and accountable managements while protecting forest and marine life through creative and innovative initiative done by the local community.