Building Climate Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives (BCRIP)

Building Climate Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives (BCRIP) is a four-year (2024 – 2028) Indigenous-led project funded by Global Affairs Canada (Indigenous Peoples Partnering for Climate funding stream). The BCRIP project is led by the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN), in collaboration with the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA South) and Save the Children (SC). Together, these organizations advance climate solutions that place the wisdom, leadership, and rights of Indigenous Peoples at the center.

BCRIP aims to challenge normalized international development narratives by uplifting Indigenous knowledge systems and science and contributing to Indigenous Peoples’ rights, Self-Determination, and Climate Leadership.

Across a number of collaborative North/South partnership projects, Indigenous-led Organizations and Nations from Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and Canada will co-implement climate resilience initiatives, weaving self-determined nature-based solutions (NbS) with ancestral knowledge, science and technologies, cultural revitalization and Indigenous rights.

The North–South collaboration strengthens this work through a continuous process of mutual and reciprocal learning, where all partners build on their respective strengths. By fostering joint action, knowledge exchange, and solidarity across regions, they promote Indigenous self-determination, climate justice, and the recognition of Mother Nature as a rights-holder.

The diverse partnership projects place gender equity, self-determination, Indigenous rights, organizational strengthening and empowerment and intergenerational ancestral knowledge and science transfer at the core, with mechanisms to ensure meaningful participation and uplift women, 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals and indigenous youth climate leadership. The projects uplift Indigenous Peoples inherent responsibilities to restore ecosystems and Mother Earth through centered on reforestation with native species, water harvesting, seed conservation, restoration of the land and water and ancestral agricultural and aquaculture methods.