Partner Led Actions

FPP supports partner-led actions that strengthen Indigenous women’s and forest women’s leadership and meaningful participation in local, national, regional and global decision-making spaces. Alongside supporting indigenous women’s and forest women’s leadership, we seek to increase the engagement of men, and people who identify across the gender spectrum, people from different age groups and abilities in initiatives and actions towards gender justice.

We work with partner organisations to ensure indigenous women and forest-based women’s voices, aspirations, and needs are integral in actions towards realising collective land rights. Together, we seek to enhance the recognition of indigenous women’s and forest women’s agency and knowledge in their movements and practices of self-determination.

The Gender Programme supports a diverse range of innovative partner-led initiatives aimed at achieving gender justice in collective land rights and self-determination, prioritizing support for women-led initiatives.

The work towards these aims includes:

• Supporting indigenous women and forest-based women in building and expanding their own initiatives and institutions that address the root causes of gender inequity and move towards enacting gender justice in collective land, governance, and self-determination. Many indigenous women and forest women leaders we work with see their initiatives as responses to the collective concerns of their people - not as women’s issues alone - and see their strength and wellbeing as a way of amplifying collective self-determination. Their initiatives are multi-faceted and holistic, involving a range of activities from government negotiations to health care, language and cultural revival, food sovereignty, mapping, and more.
• Co-organising visioning workshops, which make space for partners and community members to move from critical thinking into creative thinking about actions that centre gender justice in environmental justice, land rights, and collective self-determination.