Transformative biodiversity conservation: Enabling Indigenous and Afro-descendent women-led actions

The project expands and anchors community-led, rights-based conservation approaches in national biodiversity and climate plans. It develops conservation strategies that improve food and energy sovereignty and the self-determined well-being of indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian populations. The project relies on participatory methods to promote the leadership, knowledge and worldviews of women in particular in conservation activities. The project promotes systemic change through gender-responsive and rights-based solutions such as financial mechanisms to address the biodiversity and climate crises. The project has three focus areas: Learning and local conservation knowledge; building a network of actors supporting systems change and women's empowerment in target groups; and piloting worldview-based conservation proposals.