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tohu indigenous analytics

Transforming sustainability through justice & inclusion

Tohu Indigenous Analytics listens for the signs and patterns - the tohu - that reveal how life moves through our systems. We read relationships between people, lands, waters, and institutions as living data: not numbers to extract, but stories to interpret with care.

Our Theory of Change

Shifting institutional systems from maintaining life to participating in it.

Our framework moves institutional practice beyond maintenance logics—sustainability, regeneration, resilience—toward relational symbiosis: an operating system grounded in reciprocity among human and more-than-human partners.

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Tohu is much more complex, intricate, and nuanced than just a word, because the context determines its meaning. 

Used in Māori and other Polynesian languages, Tohu can be a sign, a mark, or an emblem but also an omen, prediction, proof, or prophecy.

What We Offer

Built upon unique, long-standing and reciprocal relationships with Indigenous, rural, and marginalized communities across the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, our consulting services and tools offer accountability both ways, for stakeholder and donors alike.

Research

We focus on understanding how power, policy, and practice intersect, helping communities and organizations align governance, finance, and stewardship with principles of equity and renewal

Advocacy

Through partnerships and storytelling, we create pathways for evidence-based governance that fosters collective resilience.

Education

Our educational programs center knowledge plurality and inclusive pedagogy.

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