10/10/2025
15:00 - 15:45
Global Environment Facility
, Onsite
Why attend
Hear directly from Indigenous Peoples and local community leaders launching ICI’s 2025 report. Learn how shifting from control to trust delivers measurable results for people and nature—advancing land rights, gender equity, and community-led monitoring—with practical lessons you can replicate and scale.
Session Description
This session launches ICI’s 2025 Annual Report, “Walking the Talk: How Inclusive Conservation is Delivering Results,” featuring leaders from 10 Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities initiatives across 12 countries. Panelists will share concrete evidence of how direct access to funding, leadership in governance and monitoring, and rights-based approaches are redefining how conservation is designed, financed, and led. Participants will hear first-hand how communities are advancing land and resource rights, gender equity, and intergenerational learning while transforming the systems that govern conservation. The discussion will highlight both impacts and insights from Indigenous-led conservation, offering actionable lessons to replicate and scale approaches that are more just, effective, and enduring. Linked to the Congress theme “Delivering on Equity,” the event also underscores how GEF investments in the Inclusive Conservation Initiative are accelerating equity commitments under the Global Biodiversity Framework.Organised by
GEF
Partners
Speaker
Director of the Climate Change Program, Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN)
Moderator
