Recognising and Enabling Environmental Defenders to Halt Deforestation

About this project

Global Witness and Consortium partners, representing indigenous peoples' civil society groups in Brazil and Colombia, are working together to achieve NICFI’s aim to reduce and reverse tropical forest loss by exposing its financial and supply chain drivers, advancing rights-based, inclusive forest governance, and protecting land, environmental defenders (LEDs). To do this, our project will focus on four key objectives - 1) Protection: LEDs in Brazil and Colombia are better protected from threats and attacks and can therefore advocate for their rights and focus on their livelihoods and territorial governance. 2) Equipped: LEDs are better equipped to protect their rights and forest territories through improved access to resources, data generation, and are strengthened with advocacy and documentation skills to act on this information. 3) Advocacy: Governments, oversight institutions, and international/regional decision-makers, regulators and policy bodies are pressured by LED evidence and advocacy to adopt and enforce rights-based laws, standards and agreements that reduce deforestation, restrict harmful finance and uphold the rights and safety of defenders. 4) Recognition: LEDs are increasingly, publicly and politically, recognised as legitimate forest protectors, while also recognising and connecting with each other’s struggles, and actively participate as key actors in ending tropical forest loss, with their knowledge, experiences and proposed solutions meaningfully considere…

Published by

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation · Government

Countries

Brazil

Sectors

Environmental policy and administrative management

Focus

Environment · Main focusGood governance · Main focusBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributes

Funded by

Norwegian Government

Implemented by

Global Witness

Passes funds through

Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

Published by Norad - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 30 Mar 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NO-BRC-971277882-QZA-25/0215-2.

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