Welcome to everything related to RRI’s engagements at London Climate Action Week! Happening in London from June 21 to 29, 2025, LCAW is a unique…
Welcome to RRI’s COP29 agenda! As the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) focuses on practical implementation and accountability, we are seizing the opportunity to…
Every year, UN Climate Week in New York City offers a pivotal opportunity for global leaders, innovators, and activists to converge and tackle the most…
RRI is organizing or participating in the following high-level events during the World Bank Land Conference to be held in Washington, D.C. the week of…
RRI is organizing or participating in the following side events at the 28th UN Climate Change Conference, referred to as CoP28, being held on November…
Africa is home to one-quarter of the planet’s biodiversity and has a network of protected areas covering 17% of its land mass—including national parks, game…
Fourth Regional Conference of National Land Institutions on Securing Community Land Rights in Africa
African governments and regional institutions are increasingly recognizing the importance of acknowledging and securing the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities as a…
For water governance to be truly inclusive and sustainable, it must account for community-based and customary water tenure rights. This session highlights evidence-based governance mechanisms…
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), the Black Communities Process of Colombia (PCN) and the Observatory of Ethnic and Peasant Territories of the Javeriana University of…
On May 8–12, 2023, Indigenous and local community women leaders will join international donors and philanthropies, and African ministers and political actors in Brazzaville to…
As multiple crises engulf humanity and the rest of life, we are groping for ways out. How can we tackle the climate and biodiversity crises, the abysmal chasm between rich and poor, the continued deprivation of a billion people from dignified life, and geopolitical conflicts that threaten to annihilate life on earth? This talk draws from indigenous worldviews like buen vivir, the emergence of more recent alternatives like eco-feminism and degrowth, new interpretations of leftist/Marxist revolution to Gandhian concepts like swaraj, and more to present on alternative practices and visions emerging from the South Asian context and linking movements elsewhere.
Organized by: The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), and the Tata Institute of…
Globally, a strong consensus has emerged on the centrality of recognition of forest rights for local communities and Indigenous Peoples as a core strategy for…
On July 22, RRI, Council for Social Development (CSD), and Vasundhara will launch a new study ton the Potential of Community Forest Resource (CFR) Rights…
This event was webcast live at 12 – 7 pm, 3 September, 2015. A webcast recording can be seen here. India’s growing energy, industry, and…
The event was co-organized by the Rights & Resources Initiative” the National Forestry Commission of Mexico” & MegaFlorestais. Objectives of the seminar • Better…
Approaching the UNFCCC summit in Copenhagen” the reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) mechanism is being examined from every angle. The community voice…
This conference was organized to facilitate a dialogue among countries in the South on the issues of community rights and tenure in the broader context…
The Rights and Resources Initiative and the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) are jointly organizing the conference – Indian Forestry: Key…
Workshop on reform of forest tenure system in the ancient forest reserves of Cameroon The objective of this workshop” organized by the Center for Environment…