A new resource seeks to support companies and investors in understanding the shared value community monitoring could add to their operations and investments, and outlines principles to help them build productive partnerships with communities to secure their land tenure and improve compliance with environmental and social standards and commitments.
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Principles of Community Monitoring
This document shares emerging ideas, principles, and good practices to socialize the concept of community monitoring among companies and investors in land-based sectors, as well as outline steps they can take to meaningfully engage with Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples to monitor and respond to the potential environmental and human rights impacts of their operations, supply chains, or investments.
Nepal’s Tsumba people celebrate 100 years of local Shagya tradition, and new law that recognizes its practice
In Nepal, the local government of Gorkha District’s Tsum Nubri Rural Municipality recently adopted a new law to formally recognize and preserve the local community’s Shagya tradition of nonviolence.
SIDE EVENT: Afro-descendant Territories in Latin America
The International Coalition for the defense, conservation, protection of Territories, the environment, land use, and climate change of the Afro-descendant Peoples of Latin America and…
Press Release: Indigenous and local community women from Central Africa and the Congo Basin call for direct access to funding to help their efforts to achieve 30×30 goals
Women leaders from Africa, Asia, and North and South America gather in Brazzaville to strengthen the global solidarity movement for women-led initiatives to protect biodiversity and build climate resilience.
Annual Report 2022
This report gives a snapshot of just some of our coalition’s pivotal successes that give us hope and vigor, particularly as we embark upon our new 5-year Strategic Program.
Paving the way forward: The Women in Global South Alliance holds its first strategic meeting
Members of the new network agree to create more documentation on land rights and governance processes for Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women; call for strengthening advocacy capacity.
Irreparable damage to the environment caused by the Ombú oil block in the Amazon foothills of Colombia
The socio-environmental conflict in Los Pozos inspection of San Vicente del Caguán is unsustainable. The Chinese company, Emerald Energy Plc, repeatedly violates the country's environmental laws and the Colombian government continues to fail to intervene.
RRI’s Fourth Strategic Program (2023-2027)
RRI undertakes a collective process every five years to define its coalition’s strategy. The development of its 5-year Strategic Program is a collective, inclusive process…
Collective Land to Support Peasants’ Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Indonesia
P2B, a peasants' organization based in Banten, Indonesia, is a leading actor in the local struggle for agrarian reform and collective land tenure rights.
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