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Tenure Facility Partner Projects

International Land and Forest Tenure Facility

NontraditionalIn-kind resource

The Tenure Facility provides grants and technical assistance directly to Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant peoples and local communities and their partner organisations to secure legal recognition of collective land and forest rights. It works across Africa, Asia and Latin America, with African projects including the Republic of Congo, and it is deliberately structured to be flexible and direct so communities can move at the speed the threat demands rather than the speed a donor cycle allows. Funded work routinely includes participatory mapping, documentation of customary tenure, legal and a

Indicative award
Amount not published (varies by call)No project or grant sizes are published on the our-work page. No figure recorded because none is stated.
Timing
By invitationNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No deadlines or application rounds are published. Projects are developed directly with partner organisations; the Approved Partners page and the contact page are the stated routes.
Who can apply
Community organisation
Eligibility
Grantees are Indigenous peoples', Afro-descendant and local community organisations and their partner organisations, working on securing collective land and forest tenure in a specific territory. The site publishes no open call, no eligibility criteria and no application form; projects are developed with the organisation and appear on the Approved Partners list, so this is a negotiated-partnership funder rather than an open-competition one. A university cannot be the grantee. A social work researcher participates as a technical partner within a community organisation's project, typically on do
SSWR clusters
Topics
collective land tenure · forest rights · participatory mapping · legal recognition of customary rights
Apply at
https://thetenurefacility.org/our-work/
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Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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