Charting the Path to Scale

The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) collaborated to develop the Path to Scale Funding Dashboard, the first public database profiling historical donor support for Indigenous Peoples’ (IP), Afro-descendant Peoples’ (ADP), and local communities’ (LC) tenure and forest guardianship. The Dashboard was launched alongside the State of Funding report in April 2024, and contributes to the goals of donor, civil society, and rightsholder participants in the to support the recognition of an additional 400 million hectares of tropical forests for communities, and to mobilize at least $10 billion by 2030 for the sector.

This brief builds on the State of Funding report to share updates on finance for IP, LC, and ADP tenure and forest guardianship and examples of how Pledge-linked or adjacent grants and funding are already driving important progress in tropical forests and other key ecosystems.