Where does funding for IPs, LCs, and ADPs currently stand?
Overall funding for IP, LC, and ADP tenure and forest guardianship has risen by 36% since 2020, with 72% of this increase driven by the IPLC Forest Tenure Pledge made at CoP26 in 2021. However, despite increased donor commitments, little of this funding reached local organizations directly and was fit for purpose.
Additionally, direct funding for local women’s organizations is severely inadequate. According to RRI’s Funding with Purpose report, while 32% of IP and LC tenure and forest management funding from 2011 to 2020 included at least one gender-related keyword, just 18% included language suggesting gender equality or women’s rights and or governance.
Here’s what we want for the new Pledge:
- Put at the center of climate and conservation funding approaches the 1.8 billion IPs, LCs, ADPs who are pivotal in the fight for more resilient communities and ecosystems.
- Develop principles that can guide, scale up, and add effectiveness to donor support over the next 5 years. This guidance must be co-designed and led by rightsholders from the bottom up.
- Donors must continue to collaborate and support the next generation of the Indigenous and local community-led global movement for rights by supporting their own funding mechanisms, such as through the Path to Scale network.
- Donors must prioritize fit for purpose funding for IP, LC, and ADP women’s organizations that have historically been excluded from decision-making processes in the design and implementation of programs and financial instruments that affect them. See Our Call to Action.
- Act now to revolutionize climate and conservation finance by supporting IP- and LC-led funding mechanisms that can provide a trusted bridge to deploy funds from large and complex donors to frontline communities.
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