Home Planet Fund's Indigenous and Women-Led Conservation Model

Indigenous and women-led community funding in four global ecologies supports local environmental resilience and food security.

The Home Planet Fund operates as an independent Indigenous and women-led nonprofit, implementing trust-based conservation funding across four distinct ecologies: the Tongass Rainforest of Alaska, glaciers across Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, East African grasslands, and the South Pacific. Projects prioritize community co-building with elders, women’s groups, youth, and whole communities, emphasizing local knowledge and trauma-informed approaches. Their women-led gardening project in Lilisiana Village, Solomon Islands, directly provides food for villagers and income for women. The fund focuses on projects designed to sustain themselves after funding ends, targeting ecological significance and resilience in regions with historical conflict or resource scarcity. This model moves abundance by creating self-sustaining food systems and income pathways within communities that have faced environmental and social instability. The source notes projects are selected for ecological impact and community resilience in high-risk areas, with outcomes measured through long-term community capacity rather than short-term outputs.

*Limit: Source publication date is 22 September 2026 (Mongabay). Transcripts may contain machine-generated errors. Project scale and specific community numbers are not detailed in the source.*

Source: Mongabay