This report represents two decades of working together across continents, cultures, and movements to build a more just and sustainable planet for Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples – particularly the women and youth within them.
This report examines the current state of play as countries prepare for the operationalization of Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, offering a systematic analysis of the recognition of the carbon rights held by Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples in 33 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America as of August 2024.
This study provides an up-to-date assessment of the status of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women’s forest tenure rights across 35 key forest countries in the Global South. In doing so, it aims to inform and encourage gender-transformative actions by governments and other stakeholders impacting community forests, lands and other resources.
This analysis aims to highlight the contexts and challenges related to the promotion of leadership skills of Indigenous, Afro-descendant and local communities women based on the life experiences of three women in Latin America who have achieved leadership roles in their families, organizations, communities and at the national and international level.
This research includes four cases of enterprises led by Indigenous women across Peru, and analyze the contributions of Indigenous women-led enterprises to local economies, territorial governance, sustainable natural resource management, and resilience to climate change, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This document includes the results of the study Contributions of Indigenous Women's Entrepreneurship in Colombia to their Economy, Territorial Governance and Climate Resilience during COVID-19, which brings together four case studies of entrepreneurship led by Indigenous women from different regions of Colombia.