This report presents the first global analysis of funding pathways in support of Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ (IPs' & LCs') tenure and forest guardianship, a project spurred by the IP & LC Forest Tenure Pledge made by 22 donors in 2021. This study, commissioned by the Ford Foundation, aims to provide practical guidance and strategic insights for Pledge donors to incorporate in the remaining years of implementation.

This project’s main objectives are to generate:

This case study covers the work of Fundo Casa Socioambiental (“Casa Fund” or “the Fund”), which is a Brazil-based non-profit founded in 2005. A grant-making institution, it mobilizes financial resources from a mix of private philanthropies,bilateral donors, and NGOs.

Este estudo de caso abrange o trabalho do Fundo Casa Socioambiental ("Fundo Casa" ou "o Fundo"), uma organização sem fins lucrativos sediada no Brasil e fundada em 2005. É uma instituição que concede subsídios e mobiliza recursos financeiros de uma combinação de filantropos privados, doadores bilaterais e ONGs.

This case study describes the work of the Synchronicity Earth – Congo Basin Programme.

Common approaches to reverse the trend of tropical deforestation and loss of wildlife include systems of protected areas (PAs) such as national parks, payments for ecosystem services programs (PES) that provide financial reward to landowners protecting their forests, and ecotourism that attempts to increase local economic gains and protect biodiversity while minimizing detrimental ecological effects from tourists.

This manual is aimed at communities in Ethiopia and provides guidance on what they can do to prevent and minimize conflicts with investors or to resolve them to their satisfaction.

As part of the Global Programme Responsible Land Policy in Ethiopia, Laos and Uganda, the Responsible Governance of Investments in Land (RGIL) project, co-financed by the European Union (EU), aims to ensure that investments in land are fair, productive and contribute to sustainable land management. A key element of this is strong engagement of private investors in those processes.

This guide addresses the capacity needs required to enable gender-responsive land acquisition in Uganda. It is primarily aimed at Communities, Civil Society Organisations and Investors, but can also be used by central and district Government at technical and decision-taking level.

This manual is intended to provide an overview of the land tenure rights to both the investment affected communities and the investors to ensure that all the different rights on land are recognized and considered.

This guide aims to help communities, to understand and address land-investment based conflicts thus supporting them in exercising their basic human rights.

The formalization of community forest tenure rights is expected to promote sustainable community forest management, and is seen as a way to combine objectives related to environmental conservation, livelihood improvement, and local self-determination. However, the formalization of forest tenure rights by itself, does not automatically result in the intended impacts. There is a need to better understand the conditions under which communities are able to use these rights to achieve positive outcomes across multiple dimensions.

Over the past two decades, growing recognition of forest-based Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) sparked forest tenure reforms to formalize IP and LC rights to forests and forest lands through a variety of mechanisms. Nevertheless, tenure security, an intended objective of such reforms, has received less attention, despite being integral to the life and livelihoods of IPs and LCs and important for forests.