Grants & Fellowships

Action for Sustainable Development (ASD) will build on the success from their last SGF project to replicate and scale community-led forest monitoring efforts in a new landscape: Boumba Bek National Park, a vast area in Cameroon of over 230,000 hectares that is facing an alarming increase in deforestation. 

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.

Fundación para la Conservación de los Andes Tropicales (FCAT) aims to revolutionize deforestation monitoring in the Ecuadorian Chocó region by integrating AI-powered insights with GFW data, combined with intensive local capacity building.

Forest Trends with work with Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) managers in Myanmar to monitor, document and mitigate forest pressure.

Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal (IBIF) will work with the Guarayo Indigenous Forestry Association to help improve their Territorial Monitoring Unit.

In Peru, Instituto del Bien Comun (IBC) will work with two Indigenous Federations, National Federation of Kakataibo Communities and Federation of Native Communities of Puerto Inca and Tributaries, to develop and implement a surveillance system of Indigenous territories in the Kakataibo and Pachitea landscapes using digital technology.

Knowledge for World Conservation (KWC) will work to improve capacity of forest and community guards in the Offinso Forest District of Ghana in a multi-stakeholder approach to reducing illegal forest activities and improving response to ongoing or new forest crimes.

Medellin Botanical Garden will continue working to address deforestation in Colombia’s Antioquia region, leveraging new technologies to automate monitoring and communication.

Water Journalists Africa - InfoNile will train and support journalists from the InfoNile/WJA network on GFW tools and data to report investigative stories on deforestation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and cross-border timber trafficking from DRC into transit and destination countries for illegal timber.

Yayasan IAR Indonesia (YIARI) will work to enhance forest protection in Lampung, Sumatra, and West Kalimantan, Borneo, by developing a near real-time Integrated Forest Crime Alert System (IFCAS).

YPIKI-IFMF will work to build the capacity of Forest Monitoring Unit and civil society-led Independent Monitors to strengthen the Timber Legality Assurance System.