An innovative new grant program for fighting forest loss is putting project design and funding decisions in the hands of indigenous peoples and local communities and giving them the power to set priorities and implement programs aimed at conserving their natural environment. The program, called the Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM), is financed by the Climate Investment Funds as a special initiative of the Forest Investment Program and was recently approved by the World Bank Board of Directors. It will be implemented at both global and national levels in countries implementing the Forest Investment Program.

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Photo credit: Edivaldo Apinaje, a health agent from the Apinaje tribe in Tocantins, Brazil, shows a cashew fruit sprouting on a tree branch. Mariana Kaipper Ceratti/World Bank.