SASI's
Main Activities

SASI Core (Administration):

• Administration of the organisation, management of contracts with consultants and staff, financial management and reporting.
  
• Developing funding strategies to ensure SASI self-reliance within the next few years.
  
• Supporting WIMSA and their work in southern Africa.
  
• Liaison with Government and relevant institutions and agencies, including the United Nations.
  
• Fund-raising for the support of local and regional programmes and projects.

Education and Training

• Ethno-ecology research and training, land-use mapping, heritage management related to schools and public education.
  
• Intellectual Property Rights research and training (e.g. San contracting with film makers, resisting bio-piracy, etc).
  
• Establishing a resource library with electronic archives and databases at the SASI office and for the community centres.

Institutional & Organisational Capacity building:

• Support to Communal Property Associations (San controlled land trusts).
  
• Youth and Gender Advocacy and Skills training.
  
• San Councils.
  
• Research and development.
  
  

Socio-political Rights and Participation:

• SASI continues its support in the further negotiations for land-use in the Kalahari.
  
• Training and support for the National Khoe and San Language Body.
  
• Assisting with initiating a land claim in Botswana.
  
• Press liaison and information support.

Cultural work and Income-generating/Self-employment

• Cultural Resource Audit and Management of San communities in the southern Kalahari.
  
• The ‡Khomani Sîsen Craft project.
  
• Establishment of a San Cultural and Training Centre near Cape Town.

Globalisation and San rights

• Supporting the Indigenous People's of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC).
  
• Facilitating the attendance of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva, Switzerland.
  
• Assisting with international research and information projects including the ACP-EU Assessment of San civil and human rights, the ILO needs analysis of indigenous peoples in RSA, IWGIA publications, UNWGIP liaison, assisting international media in working with San groups.

Annual Report