Upsides of Social Media MarketingNew Web Hosting Pioneer Emerges, Offering Affordable Hosting Solutions Coupled with…The Path to Scale dashboard is the first online tool developed to track all funding for Indigenous peoples, local communities and Afro-descendant peoples’ forest stewardship and land tenure.
“I believe it’s difficult, especially for the more locally rooted organizations, to understand who the acting donors are and what kind of funding they are providing to which actors,” said Torbjørn Gjefsen, RFN’s senior forest finance adviser. “So, this tool can help fill that information gap.” Users can filter by geography, search by keywords like “support for women,” take a closer look at specific groups within the broader category of IPLCs, and see what funding trends look like in areas like the Congo Basin, Brazil or Southeast Asia.
Riamet, who helped develop the dashboard, said the requirements for accessing funding from several donors, including the Green Climate Fund, are so restrictive that Indigenous people can’t access it. “If indeed we are targeting Indigenous people, then we should reflect the diversity of livelihoods, ecosystems and traditional knowledge landscapes, so I think a tool can reflect all the dynamics to be aware and fill the gap of limited access to resources,” Riamet said., only 2.1% of funding allocated for communities went directly to them, down from 2.9% in 2021.
In 2023, multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, accounted for 42% of total disbursements. Funding from private foundations increased from 8% to 17% of the total funding between 2016 and 2019.