Lessons from Global South-led Funds for Socio-environmental Justice
What happens when resources flow directly from and to the territories — managed by those who know them best?
This session presents Funding from the Ground Up, a report on the 16 member funds of the Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur (Socio-Environmental Funds Alliance of the Global South), based in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The study shows how these activist and community-rooted funds advance socio-environmental justice through direct support to communities, grounded in models such as participatory governance and transparent grantmaking — proving that Global South-led funding is effective, fair, and strategically transformative.
INVITATION-ONLY EVENT
Samdhana Institute
Youth Climate Justice Fund
Environmental Justice Fund
Fondo Plurales
Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur
Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur
Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur
Financing for Climate, Nature, and People Amid the Global Civil Society Crisis
We are living through a global emergency on multiple fronts, with civil society facing an unprecedented funding crisis. Yet, resources for climate and nature still fail to reach the groups on the frontlines of rights defense and social struggle. Bringing together representatives from networks and philanthropic organizations in Brazil and around the world, this discussion — promoted by Rede Comuá — aims to foster reflections on strategies to overcome the crisis, unlocking more resources to support the fight for rights and democracy.
INVITATION-ONLY EVENT
Fundación Avina
WINGS
Instituto Procomum
Rede Comuá
Rede Rizomática
Teia dos Povos / Assentamento Terra Vista
Rede Comuá
GIFE
Fundação Grupo Volkswagen
Political and Financial Initiatives from the Territories, for the Territories, Facing Socio-environmental and Climate Challenges
The Amazon Community Funds Network is an alliance built from territorial movements in the Amazon and currently brings together nine community funds: Fundo Indígena do Rio Negro, Fundo Dema, Fundo Autônomo de Mulheres Rurais da Amazônia Luzia Dorothy do Espírito Santo, Fundo Quilombola Mizizi Dudu, Fundo Extrativista Puxirum, Fundo Babaçu, Fundo Timbira, Fundo Indígena Podáali e o Fundo Indígena Rutî.
All of them are managed directly by the peoples of the Amazon and represent concrete experiences of self-management and direct access to resources that strengthen our territories, our ways of life, and our own sustainable economies.
Direct financing for traditional peoples and communities that truly keep the forests standing remains one of the greatest challenges in the struggle for climate justice. This panel aims to emphasize to the international community that ensuring the autonomy of the peoples of the Amazon means recognizing community funds as legitimate instruments for accessing climate resources.
Fundo Autônomo de Mulhreres Rurais Luzia Dorothy do Espírito Santo
Fundo Quilombola Mizizi Dudu
Fundo Indígena da Amazônia Podáali
Fundo Dema
Fundo Indígena Rutî
Fundo Indígena do Rio Negro
Fundo Puxirum dos Extrativistas da Amazônia
Fundo Babaçu
Fundo Timbira
Fundo Indígena Rutî
Collaborative Arrangements to Ground Climate Finance at Scale in the Territories
This roundtable invites reflection on the challenges and opportunities of channeling climate finance directly to the territories — where solutions already exist and are led by local communities. The discussion will bring together representatives from different sectors of the financing ecosystem to explore mechanisms that expand access to resources for Global South communities, showcasing collaborative and innovative arrangements that promote the Bem Viver, resilience, and the protection of ecosystems.
Fundo Ecos/ISPN
Fondo Emerger
Fundo Casa Socioambiental
Fundo Socioambiental CAIXA
Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur
Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID)
Fundo Amazônia (BNDES)
