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    Equity & Governance
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    Equity & Governance
    Latin America
    Insights
    January 8, 2025

    How Global Climate Initiatives Can Risk Indigenous Women’s Land Rights

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • land rights
    • Gender
    • Climate Equity
    A woman cooks in La Guajira, Colombia.
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • land rights
    • Gender
    • Climate Equity
    Forests
    Insights
    November 25, 2024

    Finance for Women Is Key to Restoring Africa’s Degraded Lands

    • restoration
    • Gender
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    A member of the Paran Women Group at a tree planting site on the slopes of the Mau Forest in Narok County, Kenya.
    • restoration
    • Gender
    • Climate
    • Finance
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    November 22, 2024

    Protecting Biodiversity Hinges on Securing Indigenous and Community Land Rights

    • biodiversity
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • COP16
    A man in red tribal dress looking at a giraffe.
    • biodiversity
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • COP16
    Equity & Governance
    Outcomes
    February 13, 2024

    Indonesia’s Indigenous and Community Groups Secure Legal Rights to Forests

    • Top Outcome: 2023
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Forests
    • conservation
    Local people from Takal Pasir Village conducting a survey of the Singkil peat swamp forest.
    • Top Outcome: 2023
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Forests
    • conservation
    Equity & Governance
    Outcomes
    June 5, 2023

    Indonesia’s Indigenous People Secure Forest and Land Rights

    • Top Outcome: 2022
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    West Papua
    • Top Outcome: 2022
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    January 6, 2023

    Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks

    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • data visualization
    Man in a canoe in Ecuador's Amazon forest
    • land rights
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Equity & Governance
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • data visualization
    Climate
    News
    December 21, 2022

    World Resources Institute and Global Environment Facility to Host New Secretariat for the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Blasket Islands.
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Videos
    September 21, 2022

    Restoring Land, Restoring Lives: Learning from Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh

    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Forest and Landscape Restoration
    Forests
    Outcomes
    September 19, 2022

    Global Forest Watch Helps Indigenous Peoples Reduce Deforestation

    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Aerial view over a tropical forest with a river meandering through the canopy
    • Top Outcome: 2021
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Asia
    Technical Perspectives
    March 10, 2022

    How To Responsibly Grow Millions of Trees Outside of Forests in India

    • restoration
    • landscapes
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    A small farm with dozens of trees growing around it.
    • restoration
    • landscapes
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Insights
    January 20, 2022

    6 Ways to Ensure Ecosystem Restoration Prioritizes People

    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Three woman point to a map hung on the side of a building.
    • restoration
    • agriculture
    • land rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    January 11, 2022

    5 actions pour garantir que la foresterie communautaire marche en République du Congo

    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Sunset over the Sangha River in Bomassa, Republic of Congo.
    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    January 11, 2022

    5 Actions to Ensure Community Forestry Works in the Republic of Congo

    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Sunset over the Sangha River in Bomassa, Republic of Congo.
    • Forests
    • forest monitoring
    • forest products
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Forests
    Asia
    Update
    January 5, 2022

    Building a New Restoration Economy in India

    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    A small solar panel in a dense forest.
    • restoration
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    December 9, 2021

    Why Aren't Countries Reporting Environmental Defender Killings?

    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Cleared land in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
    • Environmental Rights
    • environmental justice
    • Climate
    • deforestation
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    Climate
    Insights
    November 29, 2021

    It’s About Time: The Climate Community Invests in Securing Community Land

    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    A large patch of lemongrass in the Chisapani Community Forest
    • land rights
    • COP26
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    • Equity & Governance
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    August 18, 2021

    3 Benefits of Women’s Collective Land Rights

    • Gender
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
    An all-women community forest user group in Nepal.
    • Gender
    • Equity & Governance
    • Forests
    • land rights
    • human rights
    • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities

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