Our Core Principles
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) was founded to support peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. FPP aims to create political space for them to secure their rights, control their lands and decide their own futures. Below are the cross-cutting core concepts that guide the approach and work of FPP.
Rights to Lands, Territories and Resources
For indigenous peoples and forest peoples to survive and flourish, and to sustainably steward their lands and forests, they need secure collective rights to own, use, manage and control the lands, territories, and resources.
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Gender Justice
Gender justice is embedded in all the work we do to support indigenous and forest peoples in their efforts to secure inclusive and collective land tenure and realise their right to self-determination.
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Self-determination
Forest Peoples Programme works to realise indigenous peoples and forest peoples right to self-determination, a fundamental right of all peoples affirmed in common Article 1 of the ICCPR and ICESCR.
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Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
The legal principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) provides the culturally appropriate rights-based framework within which indigenous peoples can exercise the right to give or withhold their consent to activities that may affect their lands, territories, and resources.
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