Programmes available for partnership
From a shared idea to practical work.
Sixteen programmes offer a concrete starting point for funders, local governments, companies, and universities. Choose the closest fit, then shape the location, scale, and outcomes with us.
All programmes are partnership designs. Final targets, scope, claims, and timelines are agreed after feasibility work and community consent.
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Showing 16 programmes.
G1Foundations and grantmakers3–5 year partnership Territories of Vitality
Support Indigenous communities to map territories, strengthen institutions, and pursue recognition that lasts beyond a project.
Best fit
Funders focused on Indigenous rights, tenure, forests, governance, and community-led finance.
How it works
- Assess rights and recognition gaps
- Pilot participatory mapping and FPIC protocols
- Build a recognition pathway and district policy toolkit
Intended outcomes
- Priority territories mapped and submitted
- Customary institutions and community researchers strengthened
- Draft regulations and a replication guide available
G2Foundations and grantmakersLong-term programme Living Masters and Lumbung Learning
Keep transmission alive by documenting masters, supporting apprentices, and establishing shared learning spaces.
Best fit
Funders of culture, education, traditional knowledge, languages, arts, and knowledge sovereignty.
How it works
- Map masters and knowledge at risk of interrupted transmission
- Open learning nodes and apprenticeships
- Build archive, access, and benefit-sharing governance
Intended outcomes
- Masters and living practices documented with consent
- Apprentices supported to learn
- A lumbung model ready for adaptation elsewhere
G3Foundations and grantmakers3–5 year core support IVB Open Observatory
Develop the IVB as public knowledge infrastructure through repeated data, open methods, and community validation.
Best fit
Funders of public data, conservation, methods, transparency, and civil-society infrastructure.
How it works
- Refresh the data and re-test the methods
- Validate indicators with communities in five areas
- Establish observatory governance and regular releases
Intended outcomes
- Repeated data waves published
- The IVB community layer becomes operational
- Data, code, and method notes available for review
G4Foundations and grantmakersStanding facility Biocultural Emergency Facility
Pre-position resources and response networks before a threat becomes irreversible loss.
Best fit
Rapid-response, forest, peat, community-rights, language, and emergency-documentation funders.
How it works
- Agree triggers and response options
- Test activations in high-risk areas
- Build governance, replenishment, and escalation pathways
Intended outcomes
- Early evidence available quickly
- Communities can select relevant responses
- Each activation improves the warning system
L1Local government24-month pathway District Carbon Readiness
Help districts assess readiness, prepare stewardship evidence, and design benefit sharing before pursuing climate finance.
Best fit
Districts with forest, peat, mangrove, or FOLU priorities that need a disciplined preparation pathway.
How it works
- Assess readiness and community stewardship
- Pilot activities and monitoring in priority areas
- Prepare policy tools and application materials
Intended outcomes
- A district readiness roadmap
- A benefit-sharing design
- An evidence pack ready for funder assessment
L2Local government36-month pilot Peat and Mangrove Stewardship Corridor
Combine ecosystem restoration with livelihoods such as paludiculture and silvofishery in a jointly governed corridor.
Best fit
Coastal, peat, and small-island districts and partners seeking a practical link between restoration and local livelihoods.
How it works
- Select sites using ecology, rights, and urgency
- Pilot restoration, livelihoods, and monitoring
- Build a governance, benefit, and finance framework
Intended outcomes
- Peat and mangrove sites under restoration
- Stewardship maps and monitoring protocols available
- Livelihood and coastal-protection outcomes measured
L3Local government36-month corridor Regenerative Commodity Corridor
Help smallholders enter traceable supply chains while sustaining seeds, crop diversity, and local value.
Best fit
Districts and buyers of palm, coffee, cocoa, rubber, seaweed, or agroforestry products.
How it works
- Map commodities, buyers, smallholders, and agrobiodiversity
- Pilot traceability, seed banks, and committed purchasing
- Build a corridor framework and district incentives
Intended outcomes
- Smallholders included in traceable records
- Seed banks and demonstration plots operating
- Market and value tests conducted without new land conversion
L4Local government24-month pilot Urban Biocultural Regeneration District
Reactivate cultural districts as resident economies through living heritage, creative enterprise, local food, and measured tourism.
Best fit
Cities and peri-urban districts seeking to connect identity, creative economies, and resident income.
How it works
- Build a living inventory and economic baseline
- Pilot resident enterprises, apprenticeship studios, festivals, and visitor management
- Create an urban regeneration framework for replication
Intended outcomes
- One pilot district activated
- Resident enterprises and cultural programmes operating
- Income and resident benefits documented
C1Corporate partnersMulti-year partnership Supply-Shed Wellbeing
Measure community-defined needs in sourcing villages, fund local priorities, and track change over time.
Best fit
Companies with agricultural, fisheries, forestry, or raw-material supply chains involving smallholders.
How it works
- Set a baseline and priorities with residents
- Deliver interventions and traceability in pilot villages
- Build reporting and benefit-sharing frameworks
Intended outcomes
- Sourcing villages have relevant wellbeing evidence
- Action responds to community priorities rather than a corporate activity list
- Change can be reported and reviewed
C2Corporate partnersUp to 5-year partnership Blue Carbon and Peat Co-Investment
Co-invest in community restoration while preparing carbon measurement, benefit sharing, and household-impact evidence.
Best fit
Companies seeking long-term nature investment with community governance and a careful verification pathway.
How it works
- Assess site feasibility and potential buyer requirements
- Pilot restoration, livelihoods, monitoring, and validation
- Build an investment and benefit-sharing framework for future sites
Intended outcomes
- Active restoration sites with agreed governance
- A verification pathway prepared without premature credit claims
- Income and coastal-protection impacts documented
C3Corporate partnersAnnual programme Lumbung Immersion and Living Masters Sponsorship
Employees learn with masters and communities while company support funds transmission, documentation, and learning spaces.
Best fit
Companies seeking meaningful, place-based employee and cultural programmes grounded in consent.
How it works
- Select masters and learning nodes and agree consent
- Run immersions, apprenticeships, and documentation
- Build a model adaptable across business units or locations
Intended outcomes
- Masters receive support and recognition
- Apprentices have time and means to learn
- Employees gain a substantive learning experience
C4Corporate partnersMulti-year programme Food Sovereignty and Biocultural Health
Restore seeds, local food, medicinal gardens, and health knowledge in operating landscapes through community-defined priorities.
Best fit
Mining, plantation, energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing companies with responsibilities to neighbouring communities.
How it works
- Set food and health baselines with communities
- Pilot seed banks, home gardens, medicinal gardens, or local school meals
- Build a wellbeing framework for other operating sites
Intended outcomes
- Seeds and food knowledge documented
- Village programmes operating under local stewardship
- Food diversity and knowledge transmission can be measured
U1Universities and researchStanding consortium IVB Methods Consortium
Bring researchers together to validate the IVB, improve its methods, and publish reviewable data and findings.
Best fit
Universities and institutes working in ecology, culture, statistics, policy, data, and social-ecological systems.
How it works
- Agree an analysis plan and consortium governance
- Test proxies through field-validation studies
- Establish a scientific council and publication and data protocols
Intended outcomes
- Methods papers and validation studies
- Open code and permitted data
- Long-term scientific governance for the IVB
U2Universities and researchAnnual cohorts Barefoot Researchers and Knowledge Fellows
Place students and early-career researchers alongside community researchers in Living Labs as equal learning partners.
Best fit
Universities, scholarship programmes, graduate schools, and research-capacity funders.
How it works
- Design curriculum, ethics, and cohort selection
- Place participants in Living Labs and policy clinics
- Build field-school accreditation and mobility pathways
Intended outcomes
- Community and academic researchers trained
- New evidence and archives contribute to the IVB
- Research, policy, and education pathways established
U3Universities and research3-year development Biocultural Curriculum and Place-Based Learning
Develop learning that connects ecology, culture, governance, and justice through schools, universities, and lumbung learning sites.
Best fit
Education, humanities, environment, and policy faculties, schools, pesantren, and education funders.
How it works
- Design learning outcomes and materials from the archive and IVB
- Pilot modules in schools, universities, and lumbung sites
- Build recognition pathways and educator training
Intended outcomes
- Open learning modules
- School and university pilots
- Lumbung sites operating as learning locations
U4Universities and researchLong-term infrastructure Living Lab Field Stations
Establish jointly governed long-term research sites with ethics protocols and evidence of change over time.
Best fit
Universities seeking field sites, researcher attachments, longitudinal data, and durable community relationships.
How it works
- Select sites through the IVB and design governance and ethics
- Operate stations, researcher attachments, and data collection
- Build co-financing, data-sharing, and replication models
Intended outcomes
- Field stations with monitoring protocols
- Annual community research forums
- Longitudinal evidence for policy and publication
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