25th March 2026
In 2025, TINTA operated in a year shaped by two converging pressures: the intensification of territorial struggles across regions, and the political momentum building toward COP30 – the first climate COP hosted in the Amazon. Both created heightened expectations on territorial organisations and on those that accompany them.
TINTA responded by consolidating and strengthening the quality and coherence of its work across all programmatic areas. This meant designing learning, coalition work, communications, and language support as interconnected functions – each sequenced to build cumulative political capacity over time and across levels, from territorial struggles on the ground to national policy processes and global advocacy spaces. Territorial organisations needed to arrive prepared and connected to COP30, building continuity with the work started around the CBD COP16 in Cali, Colombia, in 2024. The year’s work was designed to make that possible.
“What I carry from 2025 is foundation. The thread held - through COP30, through a year of complexity and pressure, through the small moments of trust that make the larger ones possible. That is what TINTA is for.”
The Learning and Collaboration programme enabled Indigenous women, youth, territorial leaders and defenders, as well as territorial funds representatives, to deepen collective analysis and align political strategies across regions. These were sustained processes that have been built over time.
Several moments reflected this accumulation. The IV Indigenous Women’s March in Brasília and the Global Summit of Indigenous Women and Youth Defenders of Territory marked moments of convergence in processes that had been building for years to support Indigenous Women’s rights. The first gathering of the Yutzu Group along the Arapiuns and Tapajós Rivers began a longer-term reflection on territorial governance in the Pan-Amazonia. A Regional Network of Indigenous Geographic Information Systems emerged from exchanges on territorial defence, led by Indigenous Peoples representatives across the Latin American Region. Each of these represented accumulated investment, not standalone events.
The Coalitions and Engagement programme’s work followed a similar logic. The Peoples for Forests gathering in Paris brought together more than 100 forest defenders from 56 countries to align agendas and build trust ahead of COP30 and beyond. Small-Scale Fishers networks from Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia built the foundations of a cross-regional alliance and opened a dialogue with forest movements.
This convergence reflected the depth of preparation, alignment, and sustained accompaniment that enabled territorial movements to coordinate, prepare, and act collectively.
Communications and language support were an important part of this enabling environment. Narratives were amplified and organisations supported to tell their own stories with strategic intent. Across nine major in-person convenings and more than 500 online multilingual processes, language support democratised access to spaces that would otherwise have remained closed – from community gatherings to official negotiation forums. These functions determined whether participation was real or theoretical.
The year also tested the organisation’s capacity to sustain this work under conditions of constrained core funding. Consolidation was achieved through disciplined prioritisation, and the work held – but the depth and continuity that territorial movements need from their allies depends on organisational infrastructure that project-based funding alone cannot sustain. Strengthening core support remains central to TINTA’s priorities going forward. The year clarified the scope of TINTA’s role. What was built in 2025 created stronger foundations for collective work ahead.
TINTA enters 2026 committed to carrying that work forward with the depth, continuity, and political integrity that territorial movements expect from their allies.
