Falling Short: Donor Funding for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to Secure Tenure Rights and Manage Forests in Tropical Countries (2011-2020)

This report by the Rainforest Foundation Norway details the ongoing deforestation and biodiversity crises taking place in rainforests all over the world. Further, it establishes indigneous peoples as more effective protectors of such forests than colonial governments. It finds that the OECD disburses an average of $270 million per year to indigenous communities for forest tenure and management – less than 1% of the organization’s total development assistance to the same recipient countries for mitigation and adaptation to climate change.