LiveBavaria 180 × CONMAR — 178.6 km for coral reef restoration
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Allies of the territory.We back the people protecting Latin America's most vital ecosystems.

We connect philanthropic funders with trusted community conservation, building on existing local relationships to turn locally defined priorities into structured funding opportunities and accompanying implementation with proportionate accountability.

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WHY IT MATTERS

The people protecting critical ecosystems often receive the least support.

Communities already govern these ecosystems

Some of the world's most important forests, rivers, coastlines, and marine ecosystems are not protected by governments or international organizations alone. They are stewarded every day by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities ().

These communities hold deep ecological knowledge and long-standing stewardship traditions — protecting ecosystems that local livelihoods and global climate stability both depend on.

Yet the finance doesn't follow

still struggle to access direct, long-term support. Funders face the mirror problem: identifying credible, community-led opportunities and understanding what they aim to achieve.

Most climate finance follows convenience, visibility, and what's easy to measure — not where it's needed most. The Territory Allies Fund (TAF) is here to help close that gap.

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How we work

From community priority
to funded implementation.

We connect committed capital with community-led initiatives — directly, transparently, and on the community's terms.

Capital integrity

100% of committed Project Capital is reserved for the community-agreed initiative.

+ 8–12% TAF's Coordination & Accountability Fee is typically 8–12% of that Project Capital, agreed in advance and paid by the funding partner on top of the project allocation.

Depending on scope, it covers initiative structuring, coordination, proportionate due diligence, implementation accompaniment, monitoring and reporting.

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The process

From relationship to results.

  1. 01

    Origination & Assessment

    Together with responsible local partners, we structure community-defined initiatives and assess their context, funding arrangements, risks and safeguards.

  2. 02

    Approval & Funder Alignment

    Before an initiative is presented to funders, it must pass 's assessment and receive separate community authorization. Mutual funder alignment follows; the community retains the final say.

  3. 03

    Funding & Implementation

    The agreed arrangement defines the funding route, budget, responsibilities and reporting. Local partners lead implementation.

  4. 04

    Accountability & Learning

    We coordinate proportionate monitoring and reporting, distinguish expected from observed results, and consider future community-defined priorities.

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Live campaign

Bavaria 180 × CONMAR

178.6 km for coral restoration in Ecuador.

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Partner projects

Real territories. Community-defined priorities.

CONMAR

Machalilla National Park · Ecuadorian Pacific

CONMAR

Community-linked marine conservation working with coastal communities on coral restoration in the Salango and Ciriales reef systems, environmental education and participatory monitoring.

Colectivo de Mujeres Amazónicas

Ecuadorian Amazon · Rights

Colectivo de Mujeres Amazónicas

Women-led Indigenous collective focused on territorial defense, environmental justice and protection of Amazonian communities and defenders.

Sarayaku

Kichwa Territory · Ecuadorian Amazon

Sarayaku

Internationally recognized Kichwa community advancing the Kawsak Sacha (Living Forest) proposal — one of the Amazon's reference models for Indigenous territorial governance.

Index

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Open Portfolio

Who we work with

Funders who value local grounding and a professional process.

We work with funders who want their philanthropic capital to support conservation defined and led by communities. Building on existing local relationships, we structure each collaboration around the initiative's context and mutually agreed responsibilities.

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HNWIs

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Private foundations

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Family offices

Looking for a grounded way to fund community-led conservation?

Talk to us about funding and fit, or start with the communities and initiatives we work alongside.

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Sources & references+
  1. 1.Protected Planet — Indigenous & Community Conserved Areas
  2. 2.CIFOR-ICRAF, Publication 6991
  3. 3.Nature Sustainability (2021), s41893-021-00803-6
  4. 4.IKI — State of IPLCs' Lands and Territories Report
  5. 5.UN Decade on Restoration — Climate finance & Indigenous Peoples
  6. 6.Rainforest Foundation Norway — Less than a fifth of IPLC funding reaches communities
  7. 7.OECD — Biodiversity and Development Finance 2015–2022 (PDF)
  8. 8.Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), COP Decision — Terminology 'indigenous peoples and local communities' (paragraph F)
  9. 9.IPBES — Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities glossary