Indigenous Land Protection Program
This project supports legal aid and community mapping initiatives that enable communities to halt illegal encroachments on their native lands and win restitution for past damages. It offers training in inventory and mapping of ancestral lands, documentation of forest use and management, and legal advocacy to gain formal recognition of indigenous community land rights. In recent years, indigenous communities have won a series of unprecedented victories in court due to mapping initiatives. Over 100 communities have been mapped.  Sarawak indigenous communities are pursuing lawsuits to protect customary land and resource rights, with over 170 cases pending, recently decided, or under appeal.  Many of these cases depend on accurate mapping by communities themselves, with technical support from Borneo Project partners.  Mapping strategies prioritize both traditional knowledge and culturally appropriate use of technology. The project makes use of geographic information from satellite images to expedite the mapping process.  The Borneo Project also supports communities by helping them pay case filing guarantee fees.

Community Preschools

The community preschool program is assisting three Penan communities in Sarawak develop and operate village preschools to provide their children with basic skills to succeed in formal education.  PACOS (Partners in Community Organisation) provides logistical support to the preschools. 

Indigenous Forests Restoration Initiative (IFRI)
IFRI promotes reforestation as a way to restore degraded lands and lay the groundwork to establish long-term indigenous land tenure. It has helped communities restore essential watersheds and biodiversity hotspots degraded by industrial activities. It develops non-timber forest product cultivation and management systems that ensure the availability of forest resources for future generations. IFRI's current activities include replication of successful models of native species reforestation; community workshops in scientific data collection, species cultivation and management, and microenterprise; and transportation and infrastructural capacity to facilitate village-to-village educational exchanges and regional meetings to transfer skills and knowledge.

Rural Economic Development
This program aims to reduce poverty by helping communities improve self-reliance and generate local income.  Integrating traditional skills with modern business practices, the program assists local artisans in developing business plans and cooperative enterprises and works to expand international markets for fair-trade indigenous arts. With a focus on women's participation, the project provides seed grants and training for microenterprises such as fish ponds, rice banks, rattan farms, organic community gardens and livestock rearing. The project has also supported cross-cultural Reality Tour exchanges for international travelers.

Green Energy
Green Energy aims to develop renewable, non-polluting, locally controlled  micro-hydro power systems to provide electricity that sustains local industry and community development. In 2002, installation of a micro-hydro system in Long Lawen provided the village with a cost-effective, clean, and reliable electricity system maintained by the community. The 10-kilowatt system is self-financing and eliminates the need for 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel per year. It can be used to power schools, cottage industries, and refrigeration for improved food security. With Borneo partners, Green Energy aims to develop micro-hydro systems in diverse communities and train lcommunity members in systems installation, operation, and maintenance.

Borneo Voices
Borneo Voices is the U.S.-based coordinating body that works to publicize and build support for indigenous rights, rainforest protection and community-controlled development in Borneo. It mobilizes resources in the U.S. and educates international audiences through speaking tours, information exchange, media outreach, volunteer coordination, research and reporting. Borneo Voices provides ongoing leadership to the network of international organizations, development professionals, public interest groups, and citizens working specifically on Borneo issues and bolsters alliances among these groups. Borneo Voices publicizes the negative impacts of the tropical timber trade and keeps Borneo's indigenous organizations informed of global trends that impact their communities and forests.