Brazil-UK PACT Market Engagement Webinar

Date: 14 December 2023

Time: 10:00 - 11:30 (BRT) / 13:00 - 14:30 (UTC)

This webinar was hosted in Portuguese

Download the presentation slides here

Watch the webinar recording here

Read our market engagement event Q&A document here

Join our webinar to find out how you can apply for grant funding for the Brazil-UK PACT forest sector launch.

Who is this event for?

We invite all organisations with relevant experience in delivering technical assistance and capacity-building projects in the territorial and environmental management of indigenous lands sector to register. This could be think tanks, consultancies, academic institutions, community organisations, NGOs, professional associations, or any similar organisations that have the knowledge, skills and experience to deliver an eligible project.  

Proposals must be led by non-profit organisations, although consortiums with private-sector members are welcome to apply. Government agencies and government departments are not eligible to receive UK PACT funding.  

What will we be funding?

We invite all organisations with relevant experience in delivering technical assistance and capacity-building projects in the territorial and environmental management of indigenous lands sector to register. This could be think tanks, consultancies, academic institutions, community organisations, NGOs, professional associations, or any similar organisations that have the knowledge, skills and experience to deliver an eligible project.  

Proposals must be led by non-profit organisations, although consortiums with private-sector members are welcome to apply. Government agencies and government departments are not eligible to receive UK PACT funding.  

The focus will be on three pillars:  

Pillar 1: Land Regularisation - Conduct land use and occupancy assessments in claimed areas, as well as in areas already in the identification and delimitation study phase; Conduct socio-environmental assessments and the collection of environmental, cartographic, and land information to support multidisciplinary studies of indigenous lands. 

Pillar 2: Environmental and Territorial Management - Conduct an evaluation of indigenous training in Environmental and Territorial Management; carry out a study/diagnosis on REDD+ programmes in South and Central American countries, aimed at collective territories and indigenous peoples; develop one instrument for territorial and environmental management of Indigenous Lands; create a database of priority areas within Indigenous Lands for national-scale environmental restoration. 

Pillar 3: Capacity building - Produce educational/informative material for public servants from FUNAI and indigenous people to strengthen environmental and territorial management of indigenous territories. 

Register here

Visit the Brazil-UK PACT web page to learn more about our work.