Forest Peoples Programme

Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) is an organisation working with Indigenous Peoples and forest peoples to secure their rights and support their priorities. Its decentralised, international team collaborates with communities, civil society partners, networks and other allies across regions. FPP’s work focuses on human rights, climate change and biodiversity, business and finance, deforestation, community governance, and culture and knowledge.

The organisation operates three core programmes: Environmental Governance, Responsible Finance, and Legal and Human Rights, alongside a cross-cutting Gender Justice Programme. Its activities include supporting communities’ rights to their lands, territories and resources; strengthening territorial governance through mapping, monitoring and management tools; and promoting the use of Indigenous languages, knowledge and traditional practices. FPP also works to reform commodity supply chains and trade, challenge financial actors linked to harmful activities, and advance Indigenous participation in climate and forest policy. Through its conservation and human rights work, the organisation supports communities in protecting ancestral territories according to their own knowledge and priorities.