FIP Land Tenure Security, Resources Rights and Access, and Benefit Sharing

This Results Deep Dive examines the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) Forest Investment Program’s (FIP) contributions toward improving land tenure, resources rights and access, and benefit sharing associated with forests and forest-adjacent communities. Designed to enhance forest carbon stocks and reduce emissions-driving deforestation and forest degradation, FIP carries a committed portfolio comprising 56 projects in 17 countries. As of December 2022, its investment value totaled US$ 1.814 billion, with US$649 million of own-account financing and US$1.165 billion of public and private co-financing.

Together with the objective of mitigating climate change through the preservation of forest carbon stocks, FIP promotes holistic, climate-smart approaches to sustainable forestry, by improving livelihoods; biodiversity and environmental services; governance; tenure security, resource rights and access, and benefit sharing; and human and institutional capacities.

With regard to tenure security, resource rights and access, and benefit sharing, this Deep Dive follows the FIP toolkit in treating these benefits collectively, mapping results from legal or regulatory frameworks that enable individuals and communities to own, control, use, and peacefully enjoy their lands, territories, and other forest resources, with a particular focus on women and Indigenous Peoples. This Deep Dive offers fresh perspectives on this theme, and its alignment with FIP’s primary goals.