Our Work

Kawari provides a trusted source of funding to support the integration of safeguard requirements and processes in the design and implementation of jurisdictional forest carbon finance initiatives.

Through targeted grants, we work to enhance the skills and capacities of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, to create an enabling environment that can ensure rights-based governance, and to support meaningful engagement with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities that promotes human rights and respects self-determination, while ensuring alignment with ICVCM's high-integrity principles within the voluntary carbon markets.

We support efforts by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to increase their capacities to make informed decisions about if and how they want to engage the carbon markets, especially JREDD+. Kawari wants communities to be more than beneficiaries, but equal partners and leaders in carbon markets should they so choose. Where needed, Kawari will work with trusted partners previously identified by Indigenous Peoples and Local Community-led organizations to provide closer and more targeted technical assistance to accompany the implementation of activities that advance the objectives of Kawari.

As an independent multi-donor fund, Kawari functions as a blind trust. Buyers and donors may set jurisdictional (geographic) priorities but investment decisions and day-to-day operations of the Fund are insulated from external interests.

In this way, Buyers and donors can support Kawari’s efforts in various jurisdictionswithout worrying about a perceived or real conflict of interest in the decision-making process of jurisdictional carbon finance initiatives, and therefore invest confidently in high integrity carbon markets (high in environmental and social integrity).