The funding dilemma: How do we turn pledges into action?

By |2024-09-20T10:54:34+00:00February 29th, 2024|Funding, Indigenous Peoples, Reimagining Philanthropy|Comments Off on The funding dilemma: How do we turn pledges into action?

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In 2021, at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, a group of environmental conservation donors made a historic $1.7 billion pledge to support Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ forest guardianship. But getting conservation funding to lndigenous or local community-led groups can be a challenge, particularly for larger funders.

Commissioned by the Ford Foundation on behalf of the Forest Tenure Funders’ Group, Indufor’s report, ‘Forging Resilient Pathways: Scaling up Funding in Support of Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Tenure and Forest Guardianship in the Global South’ explores some of the obstacles funders face in reaching the most effective, locally led organisations, and offers recommendations and practical guidance to donors on how to overcome those obstacles.

Here we take a look at some key findings from the report and explore some of the approaches it highlights, including Synchronicity Earth’s own Pooled Fund model.