A Basic Income for Peace with Nature in Colombia
Basic Income for Peace with Nature is an innovative effort to transform the relationship between communities and their environment in Colombia.
Working with local partners, we will provide a universal, individual, and unconditional cash payment over two years to communities living within the Indigenous reservations of Solano, Caquetá.
Solano is a territory in the Amazon rainforest where conflict, poverty and environmental degradation are ever-present and intersecting issues. Through this project, communities will receive tangible recognition for their traditional role as guardians of the natural environment.
Unconditional payments will provide compensation for ecological losses and serve as a peace dividend, harnessing economic justice to foster community-led conservation and strengthening conditions for a lasting ecosocial transformation.
Read our press release on the project here, and find out more below!
We want to deliver the world’s first unconditional cash transfer project exploring the intersection of conflict and conservation.
Solano, Caqueta
Solano, at the heart of the Amazon, holds invaluable natural wealth. It contains over 200,000 hectares of tropical forests, mitigating almost 150,000 tonnes of CO2e a year. Historically, Indigenous and campesino communities have protected these biodiverse ecosystems, yet they are excluded from the benefits of conservation financing and face rising pressure to engage in extractive or illicit economies. Traditional market-based instruments have failed to deliver either effective conservation or equitable social outcomes, and the region has lost 57,000 hectares of forest in recent years.
At COP16 in Cali, Equal Right formed a steering committee to develop and deliver this project, with over 20 members representing international experts, Colombian political leaders, national NGOs and grassroots civic society organisations.
OUR PARTNERS
We are working in partnership with NGOs Cool Earth and The Nature Conservancy to deliver this project.
Find out more
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Cash for Conservation
We have an ambitious plan to transform communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Learn more about the Cash for Conservation movement below, and check out the Theory of Change for this project above.
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Basic Income Conversations
Watch recordings (with English and Spanish subtitles) of conservations with our key partners on the power of basic income and the importance of community engagement to achieve climate justice.
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Our Project Plan
Check out our project brief below for a more detailed summary of the Basic Income for Peace with Nature project. Available in Spanish here. And keep an eye out for our full project plan, coming in September!
How you can help
We are looking for partners to help us deliver this project and reach more communities on the frontline of the climate crisis across Colombia.
To find out more on how you can help, check out our case for support below (Spanish version here), or donate today.