State of Funding for Tenure Rights

Rights and Resources Initiative and Rainforest Foundation Norway analyzed the state of international donor funding for Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples from 2011 to 2024.

The results are clear: since the 2021 COP26 Forest Tenure Pledge (the Pledge), annual funding for collective tenure rights has increased by 46 percent compared to the previous four-year period, averaging $728 million per year.

The Pledge has been successful in mobilizing new resources for Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples tenure rights funding, with over half of the global increase in funding since 2021 attributable to the Pledge signatories.

This report, which includes a newly expanded scope to terrestrial ecosystems beyond forests, highlights a $2.9B funding gap towards meeting the $10 billion Path to Scale target if current trends continue. Read the report to learn more.