In order to help indigenous peoples' organizations and local communities in Mesoamerica strengthen their resilience capacities for effective management of their forests, the Mesoamerican Territorial Fund (FTM), in partnership with ICCO Cooperation, presents the call for projects "Inclusive Initiatives towards Climate Change from the territories".

El llamado está dirigido a las organizaciones miembro de la Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques (AMPB) que realizan acciones exitosas de conservación y cuido de los bosques para garantizar la protección de sus medios de vida, la reducción de pobreza y vulnerabilidad climática. 

This call is a fundamental step in the consolidation of the FTM as a direct territorial funding tool dedicated to indigenous peoples and local communities in the region to support proposals that address climate change, forest landscape restoration, biodiversity conservation, local capacity building and community livelihoods. 

About the Mesoamerican Territorial Fund

The Mesoamerican Territorial Fund (FTM) is a financial investment mechanism for strengthening the livelihoods and consolidating the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in Mesoamerica. 

It is designed as an instrument to provide financial and technical support to indigenous peoples and local communities in the Mesoamerican region, in the implementation of their own initiatives to strengthen their livelihoods; to care for nature; to consolidate their individual and collective rights; to improve their quality of life and to support their participation in the design and implementation of environmental policies compatible with community rights; with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs); for the improvement of their quality of life and to support their participation in the design and implementation of environmental policies compatible with community rights; with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC's) that countries have assumed at the global level to reverse climate change.