18/08/2026
Land Tenure, Mobility and Financing: Advancing Rights-Based Investments for African Pastoralist Communities.
As continues in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, we are bringing together Indigenous pastoralist leaders, governments, UN agencies, financial institutions and civil society to address a critical question: How can we ensure that investments in Africa’s drylands are rights-based, equitable and responsive to pastoralist realities?
This side event will explore:
•Secure collective land rights and customary governance
•Pastoral mobility, transhumance and cross-border governance
•Direct and equitable financing for pastoralist-led restoration
•Rights-based investments and Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Together, we explore practical pathways to strengthen pastoralist access to climate and restoration finance, advance rights-based investments, and ensure that pastoralists and Indigenous People’s are recognized as key actors and leaders in restoration, biodiversity conservation and climate resilience.
🗓️ 19th August 2026
⏱️8:30 - 10:30 AM (Mongolian Time)
📍MET - 04 UNCCD COP17, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Association des Femmes Peules et Peuples Autochtones du Tchad Home Planet Fund Robert Bosch International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists The Nature Conservancy Global Environment Facility Global Greengrants Fund United Nations Development Programme - UNDP Misereor The Christensen Fund ERETO Solidarity Fund NDMA Kenya Ujamaa Community Resource Team Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations State Department for Livestock Development. Nia Tero
Global Environment Facility
The 11th Hour Project
Hopper-Dean Family Foundation
