[Teresa Crawford]

Kawari Fund – Financial support in the carbon space for Indigenous peoples and local communities

The Kawari Fund was created to help address the issues of social integrity, adequate representation, and informed participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in carbon negotiations, with particular focus on jurisdictional (national or subnational) initiatives.

The fund provides a trusted source of financial support in the carbon space for Indigenous peoples and local communities to strengthen their role and negotiating position in carbon markets while also ensuring that they benefit equitably from carbon trading schemes they engage with. This, in addition to robust accounting and verification systems, is referred to as “high-integrity” in the carbon market. The fund also helps support NGOs and governments working to achieve high-integrity emissions reductions.

Learn more about the fund here.

How It Works

The Kawari Fund was created to help address the issues of social integrity, adequate representation, and informed participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in carbon negotiations, with particular focus on jurisdictional (national or subnational) initiatives.

The fund provides a trusted source of financial support in the carbon space for Indigenous peoples and local communities to strengthen their role and negotiating position in carbon markets while also ensuring that they benefit equitably from carbon trading schemes they engage with. This, in addition to robust accounting and verification systems, is referred to as “high-integrity” in the carbon market. The fund also helps support NGOs and governments working to achieve high-integrity emissions reductions.

Discussion

[Experts]

How can projects be presented in this aspect to reduce carbon emissions?

[Teresa Crawford]

The fund doesn’t yet seem to be open yet. You should keep checking the site for updates. This is the type of things they will eventually support.

• enabling activities to allow IPs and LCs to effectively participate in national policy processes on emissions reductions so their rights will be adequately promoted

• workshops, travel and training for Indigenous peoples and local communities interested in building their negotiating skills

• participation in stakeholder engagement and consultation meetings related to emissions reductions initiatives

• employment of consultants to work with governments that otherwise do not have the capacity to equitably engage Indigenous peoples and local communities, but want to do so

• capacity building for NGOs to help equitably facilitate the process

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