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Project Summary / Description:

The Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative is an alliance of 30 indigenous nations with a shared long-term vision to permanently protect 35 million hectares of highly biodiverse rainforests. This Alliance has elaborated a Bioregional Plan 2030 proposing solution pathways inspired by indigenous peoples‚ forest stewardship visions and practices. The plan is a model for a just ecological transition where people and forests flourish within an inclusive wellbeing bioeconomy. Solutions include: legalization of 9 million hectares of indigenous lands, restoration of 8 million hectares, strengthening indigenous governance, seeding livelihood alternatives, and creating financial incentives to transition to a standing forest bioeconomy.

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How Project Affects Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions:

Replaces/avoids GHGs (e.g., projects that replace sources of GHGs, such as the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, transport, or other energy uses), Reduces GHGs (e.g., projects that reduce sources of GHGs, such as through efficiency or other changes in consumption), Removes/stores GHGs (e.g., projects that capture, sequester, or otherwise enhance the "sinks" that accumulate and store GHGs)

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Impact on Underrepresented Groups:

The long term beneficiaries of this initiative are an estimated 700,000 Indigenous peoples from 30 indigenous nationalities and peoples that inhabit the Sacred Headwaters region as well as an additional 2.3 million non-indigenous residents who also depend on the Amazon rainforest for their wellbeing. The bioregional plan spells out solution pathways that improve livelihoods, uphold collective / land rights, improve ecological resilience, address education, health and transportation, food sovereignty, energy access all within an ecological framework. To help ASHI deliver on the implementation of the bioregional plan, this grant will support ASHI's technical secretariat, our implementation capacity and M.E.&L. System. 
An innovative approach in this proposal, as can be seen in our methodology, is that indigenous communities on the ground are leading the process of understanding and shaping the implementation of the Bioregional plan to deliver a just transition to a well-being bio-circular economy. This initiative builds local capacity, participatory governance and ensures the sustainability of efforts to implement the plan, and learnings from each period helps to reshape the next phase accordingly.
Also significant, as stated in the answer to question 2, we are an Indigenous-led organization. This means Indigenous people are themselves taking a lead in proposing an innovative transition towards a post-carbon economy based on their world view and their vision of buen vivir or living well.

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Mission Statement:

ASHA represents the world‚ largest Indigenous-led rain forest conservation and stewardship initiative. Led by leadership of Indigenous nations whose territories comprise the majority of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters bioregion, this initiative is uniquely positioned to deliver significant results: protecting 35 million hectares in the headwaters of the Amazon River Basin while catalyzing ecological transitions at the level of the two countries, Ecuador and Peru.