Forest Peoples Programme
Moreton-in-Marsh, United Kingdom
About
Forest Peoples Programme is a non-governmental organisation based in Moreton-in-Marsh, United Kingdom working on human rights, environment & climate, nature & wildlife conservation +2 more.
Forest Peoples Programme is an international non-governmental organisation that has worked with Indigenous Peoples and forest peoples since 1990. It supports these peoples to secure their rights to lands, territories and resources, protect their forests and ways of life, and determine their own futures. Its work spans law and policy reform, human rights defence, access to justice, responsible finance and supply chain reform, and it operates through partner organisations in tropical forest countries across South and Central America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Its core strategic principle is the right to self-determination, including free, prior and informed consent. The organisation is registered as a UK charity and is based in Moreton-in-Marsh, United Kingdom.
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Environmental Governance Programme
Environment & Climate
Works to ensure indigenous peoples and forest peoples have full access to and control over their lands and territories, and care for their environment.
Responsible Finance Programme
Environment & Climate
Works in solidarity with indigenous and forest peoples towards an economic system that enables them to thrive and maintain their own economies, including challenging financial actors that harm their lands.
Legal and Human Rights Programme
Human rights
Seeks to ensure respect for and protection of indigenous and forest peoples' rights, including self-determination, lands, territories, resources and free, prior and informed consent.
Gender Justice Programme
Gender equality
Cross-cutting programme supporting indigenous and forest women's leadership, collective land tenure and self-determination.
Forest Visions
Community development
Sub-granting vehicle that directly supports indigenous and forest peoples to realise their visions for their lands and territories.
Strategic Legal Response Centre
Justice & Legal aid
Established in 2021 to expand legal support to indigenous and forest peoples across partnerships.
Indigenous Navigator
Human rights
Framework and tools, created by and for indigenous peoples, to systematically monitor recognition and implementation of their rights.
Zero Tolerance Initiative
Human rights
Collective initiative led by indigenous peoples and supportive NGOs to address root causes of killings and violence against human rights defenders linked to global supply chains.
Transformative Pathways
Human rights
Joint initiative led by indigenous organisations in four countries across Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Indigenous-Led Education Network
Education
Collaboration established in 2020 to support indigenous peoples in passing on knowledge systems, cultures and languages.
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Partnerships
Jaringan Orang Asal SeMalaysia, Lawyers Association for the Human Rights of Nepal's Indigenous Peoples, Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand Association, Federación de Comunidades Nativas del Ucayali y Afluentes, Réseau Recherches Actions Concertées Pygmées, Ogiek Peoples Development Program, Association Sanguia Baka Bumaa Kpode, The Congolese Observatory for Human Rights, PACOS Trust, Minority Rights Group
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