This guide is a tool to advance legal, policy, and implementation reforms. Where Moving Rights Forward focused on mobility and access alone, this guide reviews the minimum set of rights that must be legally recognized for pastoralism and mobile livelihoods to be secure, including the specific rights of women within these systems.
A new analysis by RRI finds Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities have recognized rights to just 16% of forests. This is despite mounting evidence that secure tenure is vital to achieving global climate and biodiversity commitments and to sustaining the livelihoods, cultures, and self-determined economies of communities that have stewarded these forests for generations.
This document presents the Rights-Based NDC Model, a framework designed to integrate the rights and contributions of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities into the design and implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. NDCs are the central policy instruments through which countries communicate their climate commitments—defining national goals, mitigation and adaptation strategies, and financial needs.
As part of the international meeting "Afro-descendant Voices on the Road to COP30," held in Brasilia from April 1–4, 2025, representatives of the International Coalition of Territories and Afro-descendant Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean (CITAFRO) launched the “Brasilia Declaration.” In the declaration, CITAFRO calls for effective participation in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém.
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.
Co-authored with 15 organizations from across Asia—spanning youth groups, Indigenous networks, and ally organizations—this new report collates and brings to the fore the experiences and leadership of youth activists from across the continent into a call to action.
This edition is in Bahasa Indonesia; full English report is coming soon! Co-authored by 16 organizations from across Asia—spanning youth groups, Indigenous networks, and ally organizations—this new report collates and brings to the fore the experiences and leadership of youth activists from across the continent into a call to action.
More than 200 participants from 20 countries sign a Declaration inviting government actors, policymakers, international donors, the private sector, civil society, and allies to promote the implementation of the Forum's Roadmap by strengthening and promoting the engagement of Indigenous and local community women and girls in Central Africa in biodiversity conservation and climate resilience.
This research provides a timely reminder of the global significance of community-held lands and territories; their importance for the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of tropical forestlands across the world; and the critical gaps in the international development architecture that have so far undermined progress towards the legal recognition of such lands and territories.
In order to strengthen collective efforts to address these challenges and capitalize on current opportunities to scale up community land rights around the world, from…