PACOS Trust is a community-based organization (CBO) dedicated towards supporting indigenous communities in Sabah. Although registered under the Trustees Ordinance (Sabah) only in 1997, the organization has been actively involved with communities since 1987 as a different legal entity. PACOS is an acronym for 'Partners of Community Organizations in Sabah'. PACOS sees itself as an organization that strives to empower indigenous communities through systematic building and strengthening of community organizations, which can act collectively on its own. The organization also sees the need to support networking among organizations struggling to assert right over community resources and revitalizing indigenous systems.