Engagement, change makers and climate governance

Engagement, Agents of Change, and Climate Governance

Climate change already has a severe impact on Brazil’s most vulnerable territories. Because they safeguard strategic environmental assets, Indigenous peoples, quilombolas, and traditional communities play a central role in biodiversity conservation and in addressing the climate crisis. Faced with increasingly frequent extreme weather events, strengthening the adaptation and resilience of these populations has become an absolute urgency.

Given this scenario, the Engagement, Agents of Change, and Climate Governance Core Area strengthens social participation and supports place-based adaptation solutions. iCS strategy links governance to the strengthening of traditional communities, community-based adaptation, and social mobilization, ensuring climate policies that are more legitimate, effective, and aligned with local realities.

Strengthening Indigenous peoples, Quilombolas, and traditional communities (PIQCTs) in climate action and governance

Support institutional strengthening, territorial protection, access to climate finance, and the meaningful participation of Indigenous peoples, Quilombolas, and traditional communities in local, national, and international climate governance forums.

Approaches:

  • Strengthening of territorial organizations and leadership;
  • Support for the management and protection of territories;
  • Expanded access to climate finance;
  • Participation in decision-making and climate governance processes;
  • Integration of traditional knowledge and scientific evidence.

Participation in decision-making and climate governance processes; Integration of traditional knowledge and scientific evidence.

Promote adaptation solutions built upon the priorities, knowledge, and capacities of the communities themselves, strengthening the resilience of vulnerable territories in the face of climate impacts.

Approaches:

  • Support for community-led adaptation solutions;
  • Strengthening of local capacities;
  • Integration of climate data and local knowledge;
  • Development of solutions for water security, resilience, and risk reduction;
  • Generation of evidence to inform public policies.

Communication and Mobilization

Develop communication, narrative, and engagement strategies capable of transforming knowledge and concern regarding the climate crisis into social participation, collective action, and support for the implementation of climate solutions.

Approaches:

  • Support for innovation in climate communication;
  • Development of new narratives and language;
  • Mobilization of diverse audiences;
  • Strengthening popular and territorial communication;
  • Production and dissemination of evidence-based climate information.

 

 

Grants

OYA
2026 August 12 months

LINA - Laboratório de Inteligência sobre Narrativas e Algoritmos | Instituto Oyá:

To develop a narrative intelligence lab to analyze, test, and disseminate evidence-based climate communication strategies, focusing on countering AI-driven misinformation and engaging audiences resistant to climate discourse. The project integrates knowledge production, stakeholder mobilization, and mass communication to expand the reach and effectiveness of environmental messaging in Brazil.
OPAN
2026 January 18 months

Adaptação climática e sociobioeconomia junto a povos indígenas e comunidades tradicionais no Amazonas e Mato Grosso | Operação Amazônia Nativa:

To support climate adaptation actions with Indigenous peoples and traditional communities in Amazonas and Mato Grosso, contributing to the development of local plans to address extreme climate events, strengthening the Pirarucu Collective for sustainable commercialization, and promoting inclusive public policies.
EMARANHADAS
2026 January 18 months

Emaranhadas e ação em rede: soluções comunitárias e incidência de mulheres pela resiliência climática | Rede Emaranhadas:

To create community-based actions focused on territorial protection, climate adaptation, and the economic sustainability of women-led initiatives, this project aims to support institutional strengthening, provide training and capacity-building, and develop communication strategies to promote community practices and exchanges as real solutions to combat climate change.
CPI-Acre
2026 February 12 months

Adaptação às Mudanças Climáticas em Territórios Indígenas no Acre  | Comissão Pró-Indígenas do Acre:

To support Indigenous associations and leaders in Indigenous lands in Acre to influence climate policies, strengthen and implement adaptation measures that prepare communities to avoid and reduce the impacts of climate change. The project will support political advocacy activities, the development of an adaptation plan, and the strengthening of Indigenous communication.
APA-TO
2026 March 12 months

Planos Comunitários de Adaptação Climática com Quilombolas no Tocantins | Alternativas para a Pequena Agricultura no Tocantins:

To promote a training process for Quilombola leaders in the state of Tocantins to develop a climate adaptation plan. It will conduct training workshops, map perceptions of climate change and the strategies adopted by communities for adaptation, promoting exchanges, strengthening and disseminating community practices
CÚPULA DOS POVOS
2026 March 6 months

Cúpula dos Povos da COP30 | Cúpula dos Povos:

To strengthen broad and diverse participation of social movements, traditional peoples and communities, urban populations from the Amazon and Global South organizations in the People’s Summit at COP30, by supporting logistics and popular communication, with a special focus on the global climate march, which became the largest climate mobilization in Brazil’s history.
LAB CIDADE
2026 April 8 months

Belém+10: Uma Agenda de Adaptação Climática para o Sul Global | Laboratório da Cidade:

The project aims to promote an agenda that integrates technical strengthening, multi-level political advocacy, and regional coordination to consolidate a platform for collective intelligence, a benchmark in climate adaptation from the Amazon, and to expand local capacities, evidence production, and territorial leadership.
IYALETA
2026 April 6 months

ADAPTAÇÃO CLIMÁTICA: UMA INTERSECÇÃO BRASIL 2030 - Ciência e Inovação para redução das desigualdades e melhoria da adaptação climática global (Fase 03) | Iyaleta – Pesquisa, Ciência e Humanidades:

To broaden the scientific impact of the “Belém Adaptation Indicators” and foster implementation strategies that develop unequal urban territories, especially in the Northeast and North of Brazil, the project will promote a cycle of strengthening governance and institutional technical capacities through communication and scientific dissemination in climate adaptation.
CLARICE
2026 April 12 months

Construindo novas narrativas sobre o clima | Instituto Clarice:

To make the climate agenda part of everyday life by placing climate and gender at the center of entertainment. The project maps real stories of women, analyzes their emotional architecture, and translates them into narrative profiles and principles. Through research, expert immersion, and pilot testing, it develops and validates a replicable methodology for the climate and creative ecosystems.
CIR
2026 July 12 months

Fortalecimento do protagonismo indígena no enfrentamento às mudanças climáticas | Conselho Indígena de Roraima:

To support the indigenous peoples of Roraima and their leaders in responding to climate change by building awareness tools, case studies, and climate change mitigation plans, and by expanding their participation in political advocacy spaces at the regional, national and international levels, within the spaces of climate advocacy and governance by 2026.
CTI
2026 July 12 months

Enfrentando as mudanças climáticas nas Terras Indígenas do Cerrado | Centro de Trabalho Indigenista:

To combat deforestation, the project aims to create a mosaic of indigenous lands, the Mirador Mosaic, surrounding the Mirador State Park in Maranhão. The project will conduct a diagnosis of the socio-environmental and cultural reality of the populations, strengthen understanding and dissemination of the proposed creation, and work with environmental and indigenous affairs agencies to achieve its formal recognition.
IIEB
2025 September 10 months

Participação Indígena na Agenda de Adaptação às Mudanças Climáticas | Inst. Internacional de Educação do Brasil:

To strengthen the leadership of Indigenous peoples in southern Amazonas in responding to climate change through two main components: (i) participatory development of a Regional Indigenous Climate Adaptation Plan; and (ii) identification of Indigenous climate impact indicators to build intercientific monitoring systems and enhance territorial resilience.
CONSERVATION INTL
2025 July 12 months

Atuando em parceria com povos indígenas e o MPI para fortalecer estratégias de adaptação e enfrentamento às mudanças climáticas em terras indígenas no Brasil | Conservation International:

To strengthen climate justice and adaptation strategies in Indigenous territories, in partnership with the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI) and the Indigenous Committee on Climate Change (CIMC), through training workshops in the Northeast and South regions and the production of technical materials featuring Indigenous experiences, to be used as an advocacy tool at COP30.
IMAFLORA
2025 September 12 months

Redução das emissões de GEE pela diminuição da idade de abate de gado de corte no Brasil | Inst. de Manejo e Certificação Florestal e Agrícola:

The project aims to develop a calculation methodology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly methane, in beef cattle production, taking into account early slaughter and the reduction of native vegetation conversion into pasture
WTT
2025 September 12 months

Fortalecendo a coprodução de inovação na agenda climática | World-Transforming Technologies:

To promote the co-production of innovation to tackle the climate crisis by integrating science, public policies, and traditional knowledge. The initiative focuses on building the capacities of communities and climate negotiators, and on including these populations in the governance of science and technology, with an emphasis on the Amazon and COP30.
ENOIS
2025 September 15 months

Clima e alimentação: Prato Firmeza e Arte é Informação | Assoc. da Escola de Jornalismo:

To advance the food and climate agenda from Brazil’s peripheries, the project aims to strengthen healthy food, connect and map local producers, restaurants, and peripheral entrepreneurs, policies, and new markets; and create a training program focused on education, communication, and art to disseminate initiatives and connect peripheral actions to climate and food.
SUMAUMA
2025 September 8 months

Programa de Coformação de Jornalistas-Floresta e Fortalecimento de Comunidade de Agentes de Transformação | Assoc. Sumaúma Org. de Comunicação e Proj. Sociais:

The project operates on two complementary fronts: expanding the impact of the socio-environmental agenda and ensuring Sumaúma’s financial sustainability through reader engagement led by a community manager; and strengthening the second edition of the Micélio Program, which trains 11 young Amazonians in socio-environmental journalism, with a focus on COP30 coverage and the amplification the voices of the forest.
SELVAGEM CICLO
2025 September 6 months

Apoio ao movimento indígena “Escolas Vivas” e suas articulações | Associação Selvagem:

To strengthen the Escolas Vivas movement by supporting Escola Viva Guarani and connecting five Indigenous centers in the Atlantic Forest and Amazon. The project promotes cultural preservation, education, reforestation, and communication, fostering autonomy and resilience amid socio-environmental challenges.
LAMPARINA
2025 September 8 months

Aliança dos Povos pelo Clima | Instituto Lamparina:

To engage and empower youth and women from Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities in the Amazon in the lead-up to COP30 by promoting local trainings, political mobilization, and coordinated actions. The initiative brings together Amazonian leaders to co-create a global campaign on climate justice, focusing on key issues such as climate finance and carbon markets.
ETINERANCIAS - MG
2025 September 12 months

Redes de Cuidado e Táticas de Mobilização: territorializando metodologias de engajamento na Amazônia no contexto da COP-30 | Etinerâncias Assessoria Popular em Redes de Cuidados e Direitos Humanos:

To support the mobilisation, care, and training efforts in the lead-up to COP-30, the project aims to activate methodological strategies by territorialising tactics that contribute to a more catalytic impact of the civil society ecosystem in Belém in November. The project primarily aims to strengthen the dialogue between women leaders and their networks, fostering a collaborative approach to actions and reception.
FORMAD
2025 August 12 months

Núcleo Clima em Rede | Fórum Popular Socioambiental de Mato Grosso:

To engage youth from Local Communities in the climate agenda in Mato Grosso, promoting training in popular communication and fostering leadership in addressing the climate crisis, while strengthening connections between territories, member organizations, and partners.
INTERVOZES
2025 August 12 months

Vozes Amplificadas na COP30 | Intervozes:

To enhance news spaces with content production, narratives, and evidence of the climate agenda, guiding traditional and digital media in the year of COP-30, the project aims to strengthen popular communicators and climate education initiatives through exchanges and convenings between leaders, professionals, and communication networks.
FPJ
2025 August 9 months

Programa Fortalecendo Conexões & Ampliando Horizontes Rumo a COP30 | Fórum Paraense de Juventudes:

To strengthen youth organisations as qualified and influential agents in the development of multi-level climate policies, the project aims to support technical and political training, networking, participatory development of regional demand agendas and advocacy plans, culminating in the strategic integration of these youth into decision-making and dialogue spaces, such as COP30.
NA CUIA
2025 September 12 months

Programa de formação do comitê de comunicadores populares das periferias de Belém - A importância da participação popular para construção de rotas de oportunidades | Associação Cultural Kuyera:

To mobilize, strengthen participation, and connect young communication professionals from the peripheries of Belém for COP-30, the project aims to implement a training program for Popular Communicators, featuring dialogues on climate change and social transformation. The program will also work to strengthen local collectives and their leaders institutionally through capacity-building initiatives.
OBS MARAJO
2025 August 6 months

Apoio institucional emergencial ao Observatório do Marajó | Observatório do Marajó:

The project will strengthen traditional community leaders and their respective human rights and climate agendas, to qualify local policies and their inclusion in the COP-30 circuit. This will be achieved through training and the construction of collaboration networks between territories, leaders, and organisations, as well as the creation and execution of citizen mobilisation and political advocacy strategies.

 

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