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The Rights and Resources Initiative is a strategic coalition of international, regional and community organizations engaged in development, research and conservation. Together, we are working to encourage greater global commitment and action on pro-poor tenure, policy and market reforms.
The RRI coalition is formed by a group of core Partners who conduct work in specific areas of their regional and thematic expertise. Partners also engage with a wide group of collaborators who participate in and support RRI activities around the world. RRI is a strategic coalition that goes beyond the traditional set of international development actors to involve a wide spectrum of organizations, each of which provides a critical perspective in the larger chain of actors necessary to advance change.
Our Mission
RRI’s Mission is to support local communities’ and indigenous peoples’ struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market and legal reforms that secure their rights to own, control and benefit from natural resources, especially land and forests.
Global Challenge, a Global Opportunity
Forests cover close to 30 percent of the world's land area, and more than a billion people rely on forests to a significant extent for their food, fuel and income.
An estimated 350 million indigenous and tribal peoples are at least partly dependent on forests, including some 60 million who are substantially dependent on forests for their subsistence and livelihoods. Forests are also particularly important to poor women, who shoulder much of the burden for hauling wood and collecting and marketing forest products.
Dominant models of forest industry and conservation have often exacerbated poverty and social conflicts and have precluded pro-poor economic growth. The lack of clear rights to own and use forest land, develop enterprises, and trade in forest products has driven millions of forest dwellers to poverty and encouraged widespread illegal logging and forest loss.
The world will not meet national and global goals to reduce poverty and protect the environment unless poor peoples' rights to land and resources are strengthened. Neither will the world effectively mitigate or adapt to climate change without clarifying local tenure and governance. The next two decades are critical--both for the poor and for the forests.
There are reasons for optimism. Organizations of indigenous peoples and forest-dwelling communities are gaining voice and opportunity, and after decades of limited action many countries are beginning to consider far-reaching legal and policy reforms. There is a major opportunity to advance the rights and livelihoods of forest peoples by establishing the institutional foundations for sustained conservation and forest-based economic development.
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Displaying 1 - 5 of 116Retos, barreras y estrategias de liderazgo de la mujer Indígena, Afrodescendiente y de comunidades locales
Tras décadas de lucha, algunas mujeres de PI, PAD y de CL de Latinoamérica han alcanzado condiciones de igualdad y equidad en sus derechos, y han logrado que las organizaciones a las que pertenecen superen la violencia y/o la discriminación de género. Sin embargo, para muchas otras mujeres, estas barreras aún persisten.
Retos, barreras y estrategias de liderazgo de la mujer Indígena, Afrodescendiente y de comunidades locales
Tras décadas de lucha, algunas mujeres de PI, PAD y de CL de Latinoamérica han alcanzado condiciones de igualdad y equidad en sus derechos, y han logrado que las organizaciones a las que pertenecen superen la violencia y/o la discriminación de género. Sin embargo, para muchas otras mujeres, estas barreras aún persisten.
Resilience and Resistance: Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and Local Community Women's Statutory Rights to Community Forests
This report provides a critical update to the 2017 Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) analysis Power and Potential. It evaluates the extent to which national laws, as of 2024, recognize the specific community forest rights of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community women. The analysis covers 35 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that encompass about 80 percent of forests in these three regions and 42 percent of global forest area.
Article 6 and Land Rights
Carbon projects often impact lands managed by communities with insecure or informal tenure rights, especially in Africa and Asia, where carbon markets are expanding rapidly. Nearly 80% of land managed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities in these regions lacks formal recognition.
Résilience et résistance
Le Rights and Resources Iniative publie ici un rapport fournissant une évaluation actualisée du statut des droits de tenure forestière des femmes des communautés autochtones, afro-descendantes et locales dans 35 grands pays forestiers de l’hémisphère Sud. A ce titre, cette étude vise à informer et à encourager les gouvernements et les autres parties prenantes qui ont un impact sur les forêts, les terres et les autres ressources des communautés à prendre des mesures de transformation basées sur le genre.