Forest Visions
Forest Visions is designed to respond to a key gap in the funding ecosystem, by directly supporting indigenous peoples and forest peoples to realise their visions for their lands and territories, in circumstances where they or their organisations lack capacity to access sufficient donor and technical support directly.
This initiative provides multi-year commitments of completely flexible funding, combined with a tailored package of support to strengthen partners’ organisational and strategic resilience (including both funding as well as in-kind strategic and organisational development support and mentoring). This blend of multi-year flexible funding and support for organisational resilience reflects and has been shaped by FPP’s experience as a beneficiary of the Ford Foundation’s BUILD initiative.
Between 2019-2025, Forest Visions supported 14 partners to develop and implement long-term forest visions in Kenya, Peru, Colombia, Cameroon, Suriname, Liberia, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Uganda, Guyana and Panama. These self-determined initiatives have had profound impacts on the resilience of the peoples concerned and the health of many hundreds of thousands of hectares of biodiverse forest. Within two years we are seeking to scale-up the initiative to support 30+ indigenous and forest peoples at a time
Creating impact with self-determined grants
We are looking for new donor partners to help us to scale and increase the funding channelled through these direct and unrestricted re-grants to indigenous peoples’ organisations and authorities. Because of the success we have seen across our grantees, we would like to scale this initiative to USD1.5 million a year within the next two years.
To learn more about how you can support Forest Visions, read our donor prospectus.
