Annual Report 2025

Welcome to our Annual Report 2025, celebrating thirty-five years of Forest Peoples Programme.

FPP was founded in 1990, drawing inspiration from Brazilian Indigenous leader Aílton Krenak's vision of a Forest Peoples Alliance bringing together Indigenous Peoples, forest-dependent communities, and those with customary rights to demand forest protection and secure their collective futures. That expansive vision, rooted in the conviction that people determine their own futures most effectively when supported by allies genuinely committed to long-term reciprocal relationships, has endured. 

How we understand those relationships continues to deepen and shift, shaped by what Indigenous Peoples and forest peoples have taught us through decades of collaboration. Thirty-five years is long enough to understand that real change operates across scales you cannot always control, to acknowledge that complexity remains and that there is still so much to learn. 

In 2025, FPP published its five-year Strategic Framework Plan, crystallising what thirty-five years of presence on the forest floor has revealed as essential. It articulates an updated theory of change drawing on lessons learnt from walking in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and forest peoples. As such, the Annual Report spans FPP’s four strategic priorities: Strong Peoples and Communities, Just and Sustainable Economies, Effective and Accessible Legal Systems, and Resilient Networks and Movements.

The Annual Report reflects not just FPP's role, but the strategic vision and leadership of over fifty partner organisations and the communities and movements they serve. It is grounded in what partners have articulated they need from us: long-term funding combined with sustained accompaniment, technical and legal solidarity, and genuine commitment to relationship over the long haul.

The most powerful part of our partnership with FPP is not the funding, but the people behind it. FPP didn’t just offer money - they came with genuine concern for our plight.”

- Peter Kitelo, Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples Development Project (CIPDP), Kenya.

We are proud to share this report with you. Dive in to learn how communities are determining their own futures, what obstacles they continue to navigate, and what solidarity-based allyship looks like when grounded in decades of relational presence.

Read the Annual Report