Project profile — Building Climate Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives

• Colombia (25.00%)
• Guatemala (25.00%)
• Bolivia (25.00%)
• Peru (25.00%)

• Water And Sanitation: Water resources conservation (including data collection) (14015) (9.00%)
• Human rights:
Human rights (15160) (20.00%)
Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (12.00%)
• Agriculture: Agricultural land resources (31130) (10.00%)
• Environmental policy and administrative management:
Environmental policy and administrative management (41010) (19.00%)
Bio-diversity (41030) (15.00%)
Environmental education/training (41081) (15.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (significant objective)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (principal objective)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (principal objective)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to improve the climate resilience of Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, and Peru by affirming Indigenous rights and enabling self-determination. Project activities include: (1) providing sub-grants (65% of funding) to projects co-implemented by Indigenous Peoples in Canada and in developing countries. that focus on gender-responsive nature-based solutions projects for climate adaptation; (2) establishing an Indigenous Steering Group and Indigenous Wisdom and Knowledge Circle to guide project selection and support; (3) organizing capacity-bridging sessions and knowledge exchange spaces, including a regional forum conducted on Indigenous land-based stewardship, traditional laws, and legal approaches; and (4) creating mechanisms for Indigenous participation in decision-making processes and bodies, policy reforms, climate action, and nature-based solutions initiatives. The local partner is the National Organization of Indigenous Andean and Amazonian Women of Peru (ONAMIAP), which is a coordinator and member of the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA-SUR). In addition, input from several National Indigenous Organizations will be included, such as the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia – ONIC), the National Confederation of Indigenous Women of Bolivia (Confederación Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas de Bolivia – CNAMIB), the Coordinator of Women's Community Organizations (Coordinadora de Organizaciones Comunitarias de Mujeres – COMAM-GUATEMALA), the National Coordinating Committee of Widows of Guatemala (Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala – CONAVIGUA) and the Grand Council of Ancestral Authorities of the Ch'orti People (Gran Consejo de Autoridades Ancestrales del Pueblo Chortí).

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased adoption of self-determined, gender-responsive, and inclusive nature-based solutions by Indigenous communities and organizations, particularly women and youth, for climate change adaptation with biodiversity co-benefits; (2) strengthened climate governance within diverse Indigenous communities, organizations, local and regional networks for Indigenous-rights-affirming nature-positive climate adaptation; and (3) increased joint action and knowledge-sharing between North and South sub-grantees and their communities, particularly women and youth to promote gender-responsive, Indigenous-rights-affirming nature-based solutions.

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