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📌The HCI aims to increase financial resources, organizational strength, and recognition for Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ governance and stewardship of lands, territories and resources to deliver Global Environmental Benefits.

❗HCI will achieve this by supporting an ecosystem of organizations led by Indigenous Peoples and/or local communities that can manage, distribute and disburse funds to communities, members and partners.

❗HCI has five Components:👇

👉Component 1: On-the-ground projects led by Indigenous Peoples and/or local communities to deliver Global Environmental Benefits.

👉Component 2: Self-strengthening of Indigenous Peoples and/or local community organizations to govern lands, territories and resources.

👉Component 3: Representation and recognition of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in global and large-scale decision-making.

👉Component 4: Experience and lessons learned to support and enhance broader initiatives of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

👉Component 5: Monitoring and evaluation.

❗This call relates to Component 1. Under Component 1, expressions of interests are invited with budgets of 1-2 million USD from 2026-2030 to support affiliated communities, members, constituents, or partners with on-the-ground projects to enhance stewardship of lands, territories and resources and deliver specific Global Environmental Benefits. The HCI aims to deliver Global Environmental Benefits in biodiversity conservation. These include👇

👉Conservation of globally significant biodiversity;

👉Sustainable use of the components of globally significant biodiversity; and

👉Fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources, including by appropriate access to genetic resources.

❗Additionally, co-benefits in climate change mitigation and land degradation could include👇

👉Mitigated GHG emissions;

👉Ecosystem restoration;

👉Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in productive landscapes.

🔎The call is open to representative institutions, organizations, networks or funding mechanisms of Indigenous Peoples and/or local communities operating in GEF-eligible countries. ❗Potential partners will also be screened for funding eligibility based on GEF and WWF-US safeguards and compliance standards, including UN, US, and other applicable laws and criteria.

❗Partners are expected to have👇

👉Strong mechanisms for consultation and accountability with the Indigenous Peoples and/or local communities that they represent or serve.

👉Demonstrable institutional capacity and experience in effectively managing projects and grants, and adequate institutional capacity and experience distributing and disbursing funds to members, communities or partners working on the ground.

👉Experience in supporting or implementing on-the-ground projects determined by Indigenous Peoples and/or local communities.

👉Experience facilitating inclusion of women and youth in such work.

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