CLARIFI at Scale

Examples of CLARIFI’s impact through grantmaking in 2025:

• In Colombia’s Pacific region, ACADESAN has built a community-led protection model linking safety to dignity, rights, and collective well-being through humanitarian infrastructure and strengthened local governance. Leaders stress that defending human rights through the model of collective protection is inseparable from defending land and culture. Despite funding and institutional barriers, partnerships like CLARIFI’s support for ACADESAN demonstrate how scaling collective defense can reduce vulnerability and protect communities.

• In Cameroon, RRI partner REFACOF—a regional network to promote women’s land and forest tenure rights—strengthened its processes and governance structure to improve decision-making and organizational effectiveness. Members from 16 countries worked together to draft a five-year strategic plan and elected a new regional board. On the ground, REFACOF’s gender-transformative initiative, the LILAGLÈ Protocol, helped secure 35 Customary Land Ownership Certificates for women across five villages in Ngweï, totaling more than 100 hectares. It also inspired 12 additional villages to request replication in their communities.
• In Nepal, CLARIFI supported the Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development (CIPRED) to advance Indigenous self-governance within conservation areas. A Community-Based Monitoring and Information System baseline covering 1,995 households generated the first quantified evidence of Indigenous tenure and livelihoods in these areas. More than 200 leaders—women, youth, and officials—were trained on rights-based conservation and customary law. Two landmark customary governance acts were passed or tabled in Manang and Mustang, demonstrating that local governments can formally recognize Indigenous institutions. The project also supported women-led livelihood initiatives and secured pilot community access permits for non-timber forest products, marking a historic shift from fortress conservation toward rights-based partnership.