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CLUA Priorities for Support & Geographic Focus
From grassroots to global, we support those working for an equitable, climate-safe world. Learn about what we support and where we focus.
INDONESIA
We support efforts to halt deforestation, and protect and restore Indonesia’s forest ecosystems, while respecting Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights, and building a climate-resilient, inclusive, and just restorative economy.
Priorities For Support
In Indonesia, the Climate and Land Use Alliance focuses on supporting civil society organizations as they work to improve alignment, facilitate access to finance, build wide-ranging networks, increase communications capacity, and increase collaboration.
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Why Indonesia?
Indonesia has a crucial opportunity to transition to a climate-resilient restorative economy. By pursuing a path of inclusive development, Indonesia can be a powerful global example of how to integrate economic growth and climate action to protect and restore Indonesia’s tropical forests and peatlands, and support people’s livelihoods and well-being.
Lands that are already deforested can be restored to productive agricultural and forest systems. Peatlands damaged by clearing for plantations can be restored, a key priority for reducing fire in these carbon-rich landscapes. Sustainable and equitable management of forest systems will have lasting economic, social, and cultural benefits and offer a new path forward to a just and climate-resilient future.
What We Support
We support efforts to secure Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ land rights and livelihoods, change the financial and political incentives driving land use decisions to favour standing forests, shift financial systems to support a just, restorative economy, and support social movements and collective action. This systemic change can only be achieved with strong support for governance, policy, and accountability; building civil society’s collective power; and through meaningful inclusion, including of women, youth movements, religious communities, academics, and the private sector.
WE SUPPORT EFFORTS TO:
The Climate and Land Use Alliance supports work to assist local government leaders, policy makers, and officials in recognizing the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and to support Indigenous and community leaders in advancing land and resource claims and asserting their rights. Together, these efforts can scale recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights and increase their access to finance, enshrining rights recognition in restorative economic policies, and building strong public and political support for Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights and livelihoods.
We Support
- Full Rights Recognition
Supporting adoption and implementation of policies at the national and sub-national level guaranteeing Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights and recognizing their lands. - Community Forest Management and Livelihoods
Securing land rights, resource management, and livelihoods through technologies and tools to support independent mapping and management of territories and resources, and the development of entrepreneurial activities. - Direct Funding to Forest Communities
Increasing access to national and international finance, particularly through Indigenous Peoples’ and community-led funds. - Regenerative Forest Economies
Supporting the development of restorative economic policies and initiatives that advance Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights and livelihoods. - Public and Political Support
Increasing public support and political will for securing Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights and livelihoods. - Non-market Approaches
Building non-market approaches as contributions to Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ forest management and livelihoods.
The Climate and Land Use Alliance supports work to enable Indonesia to meet its climate commitments and efforts to build a restorative economy. This includes support for the development and implementation of policies and adoption of laws and regulations consistent with sustainable land use and rights protection. We also support efforts to encourage the active participation of civil society and community-based organizations in informing land use policies, and holding the private sector to account.
We Support
- Sustainable Land Use and Climate Policies
Advancing policy and regulatory frameworks at the national and sub-national levels aligned with ensuring climate-resilience, Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights and well-being, and building a restorative economy. - Climate-Resilient, Inclusive, Just Development
Aligning the national long-term development plan, as well as shorter-term and sub-national development planning processes with the restorative economy and climate resilience agendas and ensuring plans are informed by effective participation of civil society and community-based organizations. - Delivery of National Commitments
Ensuring Indonesia’s climate, biodiversity, and sustainable production commitments, made in international agreements and policy processes, are delivered and actively monitored and strengthened through engagement by civil society organizations. - Strong Civil Society
Bolstering legal, political, social support for a strong civil society and active citizen participation. - Protecting Land and Rights Defenders
Strengthening protections for environmental and human rights defenders, including Indigenous Peoples and local community leaders, and stopping criminalization and violence against them. - Increased Accountability
Ensuring the private sector acts on environmental, climate, and rights commitments, including ‘No Deforestation, No Peat, and No Exploitation’ commitments, and enabling increased transparency, scrutiny, legal enforcement, and social oversight.
The Climate and Land Use Alliance supports work to sustain strong civil society movements, mobilize public support with data-based narratives, help civil society organizations advocate for greater accountability and change, and foster the growth of coalitions dedicated to a climate-resilient, inclusive, and just restorative economy.
We Support
- Increased Collective Action
Supporting diverse civil society movements in effectively driving collective action by building coalitions, communications capacities, collaborations with media and creatives, and the use of new technologies. - Strengthening and Shifting Narratives
Building public support and political will for a just, restorative economy, climate resilience, and Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights through strong, evidence-based communications. - Civil Society Advocacy
Supporting civil society efforts to advocate for stronger climate, land use, and forest policies and practices and to hold decision makers to account. - Connected Coalitions
Supporting civil society organizations and social movements in actively contributing to and participating as a cohesive movement with a common agenda for tropical forest conservation in national and international climate and biodiversity governance spaces.
The Climate and Land Use Alliance supports efforts to improve policies and increase investment in the restorative economy, push for greater insight and transparency around investments, support the launch of restorative economic projects at the sub-national level, and shift financial institutions away from investing in unsustainable portfolios.
We Support
- Improved Fiscal Policy
Supporting financial policy frameworks, regulations, and other mechanisms that drive systemic shifts toward a restorative economy. - Sustainable Investments
Increasing national and international investment and high-quality finance for forest protection and restoration and a restorative economy, including in priority districts. - Finance for Restorative Economies
Increasing availability of national and international finance for civil society organizations, communities, local governments, and entrepreneurs to contribute to building a restorative economy. - Increased Financial Transparency and Oversight
Promoting greater transparency and oversight of national and international investments (including unsustainable extractives, infrastructure, agri-business, and other drivers of deforestation) to mitigate and avoid their negative social and environmental impacts. - Adoption of a Restorative Economy
Investing in pilot restorative economy initiatives, supported by strong multi-stakeholder participation, economic narratives, and political leadership. - Shifting Finance
Ensuring banks and other financial institutions shift their financial flows away from extractive, deforestation- and conversion-linked portfolios towards the restorative economy.
The Climate and Land Use Alliance supports efforts to remove extraction and exploitation from supply chains, support transitions toward restorative economies, ensure industry adheres to strong safeguards, help set the standard for a just energy transition, and foster high-integrity in carbon markets.
We Support
- Deforestation- and Conflict-Free Supply Chains
Advancing efforts to remove deforestation, peatland conversion, and rights violations from supply chains and industries, including from the production of key agricultural commodities and transition minerals. - Economies Supporting Well-Being and Forest Health
Ensuring increased human well-being and ecological integrity by advancing economic opportunities and coordinating stakeholders to increase access to funding and to domestic and regional markets. - Restorative Economies
Support regional and local governments’ and leaders’ efforts to develop restorative economies and climate resilience, including through development, spatial, and investment planning. - Strong Safeguards
Promoting land-based industries’ adoption and adherence to robust social and environmental safeguards and responsiveness to local community oversight and input regarding their operations, to keep industries accountable to high standards, particularly when operating in and around Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ territories. - High Integrity in Forest Carbon Markets
Ensuring domestic and international forest carbon market initiatives and transactions operate with high social and environmental integrity, including by promoting rights recognition and secure access to land, benefits sharing, and real reductions in both fossil fuel use and land use emissions. - Best Practices
Enabling information about and examples of good practices to be shared for building restorative economic approaches to land use and the energy transition.
Grants
We unfortunately do not accept unsolicited grant proposals.
The Climate and Land Use Alliance member foundations work closely together to identify funding opportunities and make grants aligned with our shared priorities.
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Where Else We Focus
The Climate and Land Use Alliance also supports work in these tropical forest regions:
Updates
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Priorities for Support in Indonesia
We support civil society organizations to improve alignment, facilitate access to finance, build wide-ranging networks, increase communications capacity, and increase collaboration.
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Short Film: Perspectives on Forests, Lands, and Rights
To learn from diverse perspectives, we interviewed leaders about their priorities for action on forests, lands, and rights. Here’s what they shared.
