Grants & Fellowships

CERSGIS’ project will establish a near-real-time monitoring system to detect illegal land-use changes within Atewa by visualizing the data through a customized MapBuilder map and generating spatially explicit evidence to support enforcement, policy dialogue and conservation planning.

The project will use remote sensing tools to support Achuar communities in implementing conservation governance to limit the impact of new roads in their territory.

The project will strengthen the technical and editorial capacities of these local journalists to combine GNW data with local knowledge to produce in-depth, territorially focused journalistic investigations.

This project will equip journalists working in these areas to interpret GNW’s near-real-time deforestation alerts, overlay concession and protected-area data and assess whether forest clearing has occurred in riparian buffers, conservation zones or under Indonesia’s forest-clearing moratorium.

MAGUFINA will work in DRC’s Mai-Ndombe and Équateur provinces, which lost almost 80,000 hectares of forest in 2024.

The project will strengthen the capacity of the Kengiwe program to use GNW tools to detect and respond rapidly to unwanted activities, and run a campaign to draw attention to the impacts of mining and other activities on Waoroni land. They will also work with a multidisciplinary team to develop a response roadmap according to threat categories.

This project will establish an integrated forest monitoring and enforcement system in the BTE by combining GNW’s near-real-time alerts with Spatial Monitoring and Reporting (SMART) patrol field documentation.

This project will work with the community-managed forest permit area, HKm Beganak in Sekadau, West Kalimantan to turn routine patrols into an alert-driven monitoring and enforcement support system co-implemented by the Sekadu District KPH (Forest Management Unit).

Alphome Community Farms will use GFW tools to fill critical gaps in data about threats to approximately 3.4 million hectares across Watsa, Faradje, and the Garamba National Park buffer zone in Haut-Uele, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Through the support of fiscal sponsor PROCESO Educational Services, National Confederation of Indigenous Women of Bolivia (CNAMIB) is leading a project to strengthen technical capacities of Indigenous women brigades in the Lomerío Territories, Multiethnic Indigenous Territory (TIM) in Beni, and the Multiethnic Indigenous Territory and Ignacio (TIMI) of Bolivia in the use of early warning systems, accessed via GFW and Forest Watcher, with the goal of developing rapid response protocols to deforestation, fires or illegal mining.

Environmental Women Org will work to strengthen the forest monitoring, fire prevention and land stewardship capacities of 300 Indigenous Narakajmanta women, girls and LGTBI individuals in the Colombian Andean mountains.

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) will work to address deforestation threats like illegal logging and agricultural encroachment in northeastern Cambodia by training communities, Indigenous groups and journalists to use GFW tools for monitoring and advocacy.

The Wampís Autonomous Territorial Government (GTANW) will work with fiscal sponsor Peru Equidad, to strengthen Wampís GIS technicians’ capacity to use GFW to monitor 1.3 million hectares in their territory in Peru.

Radio Workshop’s project will leverage youth-led, community-centered and data-powered storytelling to amplify local and national actions to protect forests and uphold Indigenous rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 

Sekakoh will work to expand community-led forest surveillance by equipping community forest watchers with the Forest Watcher app and drones to document and verify illegal activities in the Ebo Forest in Cameroon, a Key Biodiversity Area that spans over 200,000 hectares and is the ancestral homeland of the Banen people.

The Shipibo Conibo Center, Inc. will work with sister organization Bakish Mai Multiversity, COSHIKOX, the representative body of the Shipibo Conibo Nation, the Guardia Indigena (Indigenous Land and Water Defenders) of the Shipibo Organization, and the Institute of Legal Defense to empower Shipibo land-defenders with the tools and technology to expand their capacity to protect their territory, which spans 8.1 million hectares along the Ucayali River in Peru.  

The Resource Foundation Ghana (TRFG) will train forest-fringe community members, Forestry Commissions officials, Community-based Organizations (CBOs), Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) committees and law enforcement officers on using the Forest Watcher app to track forest disturbances and compile official reports on illegal activities for submission to the Ghana Forest Commission. 

The Women Research Institute will work to empower local women to lead data-driven forest advocacy in the Sambelia Subdistrict, East Lombok, Indonesia. Forests in this region are the lifeblood of communities, providing water, food and livelihoods, especially for women.

Yayasan Inisiasi Alam Rehabilitasi Indonesia (YIARI), also a 2024 grantee, will continue to build on their Integrated Forest Crime Alert System (IFCAS) that was developed in last year’s project to expand forest monitoring and enforcement in protected forests across Lampung and West Kalimantan provinces in Indonesia.