SSRI.org – The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) published a lengthy article reviewing the global movement to restore land rights for Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant communities as a key strategy for climate change mitigation and tropical forest protection.
The article also highlights a number of community-led direct funding mechanisms, such as the Nusantara Fund (Indonesia), the Jaguatá Fund (Brazil), the Congo Basin Fund (Central Africa), the Mesoamerican Territorial Fund (Central America), the IPAS Fund (Asia), and CLARIFI by RRI. The Nusantara Fund was founded by AMAN, KPAand WALHI in 2022 to support indigenous communities, farmers, and local communities in Indonesia.
These funding initiatives are claimed to provide communities with direct access to funds, strengthen collective rights, and promote equitable economic and environmental development models. The article also highlights the importance of building alliances with national governments, the private sector, and philanthropic actors to strengthen land rights recognition policies.
The article also recommends directing climate finance to communities, strengthening collective financing infrastructure, and supporting the protection of environmental defenders. SSIR emphasizes that the land rights movement is not only about saving forests and the climate, but also about building a model for systemic change that can be applied across other development sectors.
Source: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/movement-to-restore-indigenous-land-rights
