News: “Cutting funds won’t save them”
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an Indigenous Peoples’ representative is convinced: If donor countries cut development and climate funding, it is they who will pay the price in the long term.
Check out these resources to support donors, financial mechanisms, intermediaries, and communities interested in working together to scale-up direct funding to secure the rights, conservation, and livelihoods of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local communities.
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News: Indigenous Peoples call for direct funding to protect nature at COP16
Amazonian organizations and the Inter-American Development Bank announce the first projects of the Amazon for Life fund in Cali.
News: Indigenous women are on nature’s front lines but get little funding
According to new data, of the $28.5 billion in international government aid for women and girls between 2016 and 2020, only 1.4% went to organisations working with Indigenous women who protect many of the world’s most biodiverse areas.
Report: State of Funding for Tenure Rights and Forest Guardianship
The Path to Scale dashboard is an open-source online tool that gives easy access to donor funding data for Indigenous Peoples’, Afro-descendant Peoples’, and local communities’ tenure and forest guardianship. This brief analyzes the dashboard to present key funding trends from 2011-2023, focusing on developments since 2020 and the IPLC Forest Tenure Pledge
