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You’re invited! *Legado Town Hall | Wednesday, May 8 @ noon EST | Hosted on Zoom* At this Spring’s Town Hall, the women leading our Namuli work with Mozambican group Namuli Wiwanana will share some of the lessons they’ve learned by putting women at the heart of our 360° Community-Led Change approach. Our Town Halls are interactive, online events where people from around the world join in the discussion. We would love it if you could join us. Click below to RSVP. https://lnkd.in/exiNxBjs

Indigenous Peoples still steward many of the world’s most biodiverse landscapes. This relationship between land and people has created an intimate knowledge of the environment—knowledge that is key to mitigating climate change and protecting biodiversity.   Nowhere is this more true than East Africa, which is home to thousands of acres of native grasslands and shrubby vegetation known as rangelands. Our latest blog post dives deeper into the Rangelands of East Africa, sharing how this bioregion is a key site for pursuing climate justice—but only when we center the lifeways of the pastoralists who have relied on and managed the lands for centuries. https://lnkd.in/eJjE8ujM #ThrivingFutures

So great to see Chief Partnerships and Programs Officer Tita Alvira advocating for locally led solutions as part of Financial Inclusion Week https://lnkd.in/e29RvqkG #FIW24 #FinclusionWeek

Just one more week until Legado's Fall Town Hall! We’d love to see you there. Here from local leaders in Peru and Kenya who will share what supporting Thriving Futures looks like to them. The details: Wednesday, October 23 | 12-1 PM EST/ 6-7 PM CAT | Online via Zoom RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eZPaQ_67

Legado's Fall Town Hall is almost here—and you’re invited! Details:  ** Wednesday, October 23  **  9-10 am PST / 12-1 pm EST / 6-7 pm CAT  ** Live online, via Zoom (link follows RSVP) This Town Hall, you’ll hear directly from two local leaders who are helping activate legacy in their home regions—Flor in Peru and Andrew in Kenya. We’ll discuss why local leadership is key to advancing 360° Community-Led Change. Our Town Halls are live, online events where people from around the world join in the discussion. We would love it if you could join us. Click below to RSVP. https://lnkd.in/eZPaQ_67

We are so excited to announce that Legado is officially launching its newest partnership with Planet Indonesia. Our work together will take place in the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, located on the island of Borneo. Nested in the 2 million-hectare Arabella Schwanner landscape, this region is home to Borneo’s largest remaining Orangutan population and many other critically endangered species. Our partnership starts by working with four Indigenous Dayak communities in Melawi district to secure land rights, reduce poverty, and lead across their holistic priorities toward building a Thriving Future. This is Legado’s first partnership in Southeast Asia, and we cannot wait to bring our Thriving Futures methodology to an entirely new landscape! By integrating Thriving Futures into Planet Indonesia’s Core Model approach, local and Indigenous community leadership will become central biodiversity conservation in the area. We look forward to sharing more updates as this partnership unfolds. 

Our incredible funding partner, Planet Women, is hosting Majka Burhardt and Tita Alvira for a chat about what we've learned by putting women at the heart of our 360° Community-Led Change approach. We’d love for you to join! When: Oct. 2, noon EST Where: Zoom All the details are in the link below: https://lnkd.in/ePH4vckG

Last year, community members on Mount Namuli committed to a project to fulfill their health priority by preserving traditional medicinal plants: reforesting the hills and river banks surrounding Mount Namuli 🌱 🌱🌱 The goal is to grow and replant 1,000 native plant seedlings in ideal locations during the rainy season (late November), which local nursery workers and volunteers will tend to over the year as they prepare for another planting cycle. This project will kickstart an annual cycle of reforestation that promotes the overall well-being of the Mount Namuli communities—led by the community itself. We love this project because reforestation on Mount Namuli is about so much more than climate and biodiversity: it impacts health care, culture, livelihoods and more. We are so grateful to Daughters for Earth for funding this project. Get the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eByZGRPK Caption: Forest landscape near Mount Namuli, Mozambique | Roshni Lodhia/Legado

Our April to June update is out now! Here are few highlights: ✨ We share about our newest Thriving Futures partnership with the Pangolin Project. Together, we’re working to support the Indigenous Stewards of Southwest Kenya’s Nyekweri ecosystem. ✨Our all-woman team in Peru worked to begin Legacy Planning in Saniriato, the first community to begin the Thriving Futures process in the Andes-Amazon. ✨We take you to Northern Kenya, where a community health training on maternal and newborn care exemplifies the interconnected nature of Thriving Futures. Check it out to see what building Thriving Futures in partnership with Indigenous communities looked like this quarter: https://lnkd.in/g7JgRP5G 

We are so honored to partner with Greenwood Place team, who have been transformative in catalyzing social and environmental justice. Check out their latest Annual Report, featuring how they support community led change at so many levels—it is an honor to be part of this with them. (Our work is shared on page 14 alongside great work by so many others.) #communityofchange https://lnkd.in/dpSiJfTD