Indigenous forest management funds can now bypass national governments

Indigenous groups and local communities can now get money directly for forest projects. This means they have more say in how nature and climate initiatives are run.

For years, development programs assumed that giving money to national governments would trickle down to local communities. This World Bank report shows that direct funding for indigenous forest management works better. It means money can flow to the people actually doing the conservation work, bypassing potentially slow or misaligned national bureaucracies.