Indigenous women on nature’s front lines but get little funding
Women lead the fight to protect Latin America biodiversity, but why do they end up with few conservation funds? A report from Context.
Calling upon international climate and conservation finance solutions to put at their center the 1.8 billion Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples who are pivotal in the fight for a more resilient planet.
This doesn’t just mean more funding, but for funding to be just, equitable, and inclusive.
The Problem
Despite increased donor commitments to prioritize direct funding to Indigenous and local community rightsholders’ organizations, little of this funding is fit-for-purpose or reaches these groups directly.
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With the increased momentum around funding locally-led climate and conservation action, join our call for a more ambitious pledge to fund Indigenous, Afro-descendant and local community-led organizations!
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Check out our repository of evidence to support donors and financial mechanisms interested in scaling up direct funding for rights-based climate, conservation, and sustainable development action.
Why a new pledge?
Forests and other ecosystems controlled and managed by Indigenous Peoples, local communities and Afro-descendant Peoples are more resilient to climate change and deliver better conservation outcomes compared to lands managed by other actors. The new global focus on their stewardship is long overdue, but any new funding must be just, equitable, and inclusive to work!
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New online tool is first to track funding to Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities
The Path to Scale dashboard is the first online tool developed to track all funding for Indigenous peoples, local communities and Afro-descendant peoples’ forest stewardship and land tenure, Mongabay reports.
Indigenous peoples call for direct funding to protect nature at COP16 on biodiversity
Amazonian organizations and the Inter-American Development Bank announce the first projects of the Amazon for Life fund in Cali.