Grants and Contributions:

Our Collective Futures: Indigenous Peoples Partnering for Lands and Waters

7465799 P014058001

$1,696,667.00

Mar 13, 2025 - Mar 31, 2026

The “Our Collective Futures” project is an Indigenous-designed and governed project that aims to strengthen the climate resilience of Indigenous Peoples in the Indo-Pacific through Indigenous-led climate action. Peer-to-peer learning between First Nations in Canada and abroad seeks to contribute to enhanced awareness and capacity to develop and implement climate solutions and increased access to these solutions for Indigenous Peoples, in particular women and youth. The project equips Indigenous Peoples to organize, strategize, and lead actions at the local, regional, and international levels that address climate change and biodiversity. Strengthened partnerships and co-developed tools, strategies and guidelines for climate action aim to increase the use of gender-responsive nature-based solutions. These solutions will benefit climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation. The project centers the self-determined priorities and needs of Indigenous Peoples with regards to climate and biodiversity action. The project aims to build on local partner Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact’s (AIPP) ongoing efforts to enhance knowledge-sharing and capacity-building among Indigenous Peoples and their active participation in decision-making related to conservation and climate action. The project aligns with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Project activities include: (1) convening knowledge circles for Indigenous Peoples on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Indigenous governance as climate and biodiversity solutions; (2) identifying guidelines, tools and actions that enable Indigenous communities to participate in and lead climate action; and (3) supporting peer-to-peer knowledge sharing workshops between First Nations women and youth and Indigenous women and youth from Malaysia and Thailand to empower Indigenous women and promote climate leadership in implementing climate and biodiversity solutions.

Global Affairs Canada

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased use of gender-responsive nature-based solutions with biodiversity co-benefits for climate change adaptation by Indigenous Peoples in the Indo-Pacific region, with an emphasis on Thailand and Malaysia; (2) increased empowerment and leadership of Indigenous Peoples in the Indo-Pacific region, with an emphasis on Thailand and Malaysia, particularly women and youth, in implementing climate and biodiversity solutions in Thailand and Malaysia; and (3) improved Indigenous partnerships for advocacy by Indigenous Peoples from the Indo-Pacific region in multi-lateral environmental agreements on climate change and biological diversity.

OTTAWA, Ontario, CA K1P 6L2

064-2024-2025-Q4-00074

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

3213133649848

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Assembly of First Nations

Ottawa Centre

35075

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