 to invite Pawanka Fann to share our experience in this very important meeting. Pawanka Fann is an Indigenous-led Fann. Our mission is to change the way that philanthropies stand traditionally. Pawanka is a mosquito name. Our meaning is something that is growing and strengthening. All the pictures and images that I'm going to share are from our local partners in different parts of the world. The Pawanka Fann was created as a Global Indigenous-led Fann in September of 2014 in the framework of the UN World Conference on Indigenous People. And it's led by Indigenous leaders from different parts of the world, including North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Arctic, Pacific and Russia. Pawanka Fann responds to the need of Indigenous people based on relationship of trust, networking and articulation between local and global processes. And the objective of Pawanka is to strengthen Indigenous people's self-determined development through effective and strategic ground-making. And the objective is to revitalize traditional knowledge and learning systems. Next, please. So this is just for you to have an idea of Pawanka Fann of the six years of life. We have more than 300 local partners from almost 60 countries of the seven socio-cultural regions of the world. That means 261 grants and that reached 272 Indigenous peoples in different regions of the world. So in this image, you can see the names of the different Indigenous peoples in different parts of the world. Next, please. So Pawanka Fann's work with a great diversity of partners. So we are working with communities, with Indigenous communities, but also with Indigenous women organizations, elders or youth organizations, national, regional and global networks, Indigenous with disabilities, territorial governments, group of pastoralists, farmers, nomads, mountain people, Icelanders, fishmen, breeders, traditional healers, spiritual leaders, midwives, traditional authorities, Jews. So this is to share that Pawanka Fann is working with local partners in a very diverse way. Next, please. So Pawanka Fann is building a holistic approach to gram-making. So our model of gram-making is based on different steps. So we have gram-making, mentoring, learning and sharing. These are our steps that we work in the gram-making. So we have different thematic cycles. Our main issue is traditional knowledge revitalization. But we also have issue a specific emergency fund during the pandemic, and we still have that emergency fund. So we have special cycles on different teams. And one of our special cycles is on building resilience, climate resilience. Because as all of you know, Indigenous people are the most affected people on climate change in fact. So one of our special cycles is on climate resilience building and how the revitalization of Indigenous knowledge and value can really be strengthened to face this climate change impact. So next, please. So our gram-making are direct support to community-led organization and networks. We establish long-term partnership. Our grants range from $10,000 to $50,000 in a multi-year. We support the recovery and the revitalization of Indigenous knowledge and practices. And the selection process is through cultural due diligence criteria. So the criteria to select the partners that want to find use cultural criteria on that selection. That means Indigenous partners that they are contributing to the well-being of the community or the equity between men and women. So our guiding committee defined eight cultural indicators that we use for the selection of our partners, but also in the monitoring and the follow-up of the implementation of the project. Yes. Next, please. So our programs of mentoring, learning and sharing. That means that we are not just doing a gram-making, we are not just sharing finance support. We also accompany and support our partners in the design of the proposal. This is the mentor role that Pawanka has in the implementation and all the process of monitoring and evaluation. We give technical assistance to our partners to fulfill the legal and administrative requirements. And also we promote exchange of knowledge and practices and peer-to-peer capacity building process among our partners. We are building networks of solidarity and mutual support among our partners and we are generating and disseminating knowledge. Next, please. So Pawanka has a holistic approach to climate adaptation. In our gram-making, we support more than 45 Indigenous local community and organization in the 7th social cultural region that they are building collective resilience to face climate impact based on their traditional knowledge, applying a holistic approach and integrating innovation. So we are promoting a learning process between our partners that they are building resilience to face climate impact. We implement a learning exchange. We have so far 7 regional meetings and global climate resilience meetings where we could learn, of course, and share the different challenge and threats that our partners are sharing, but also how they are implementing solutions and strategies to face the climate impact. Next, so how does Pawanka support Indigenous communities to build resilience and face climate impact? Well, first recognizing the local expertise and knowledge of local communities, making direct funding and partners have full control of the decisions of their project. So we think that we support the process and not the project because our partners are implementing this process at a local level and we are facilitating resources to those process. Being flexible on requirement and reporting system, selecting partners and promoting learning and sharing based on cultural criteria. Next, establishing partnership based on trust and Indigenous values, supporting self-determination and Indigenous governance system. So Pawanka is supporting Indigenous people on empowerment process. It's not Pawanka that empower Indigenous people. We are facilitating and accompanying Indigenous people in their own empowerment processes. This is a change in the paradigm of the grant making, where in many traditional mechanisms is the fund that empower or think that they can empower their partners or grantees. We are making efforts to reach Indigenous communities that otherwise would not have access to resources. So we support the capacity building and the strengthening of the local organization and community to be able to access funding. And we advocate for the transforming power relationship in philanthropy. We have many philanthropic networks to try to advocate for the power relationship and to have a more equity relationship between partners and funders. Next, I'm going to finish. We are going to share in the chat a link with a very brief video where you can see the experience of many of Pawanka partners building collective resilience because Indigenous people are building resilience in a collective way. You will see experience from the pastoralists in Tanzania and Kenya and how the movement is a key strategy to face the climate change impact. Or for example in Rapa Nui, the Indigenous people are building based on their traditional architecture and structures, are building structures to manage and keep the water, the rainwater. We have other experience in Colombia about agro schools or seed banks in Cambodia and Thailand or in Russia, they are implementing or they are researching geomagnetic energy and the link with the climate prediction. Or for example in Alaska, they are developing Indigenous people are developing cultural mapping and they are linked this process with the recovery of the Indigenous language. So please, if you have time, I invite you to watch the video to see these different examples. And also what resilience means for Indigenous people. We have shared with our partners and maybe they don't have a specific word meaning resilience. But resilience for Indigenous peoples means their self-governance, the strengthening of their self-governance system means water, land, natural resources and of course to have the strength to face the current challenge. So I want to finish here and please if you would like to make any question, it's more of welcome. We have time for just one or two quick questions for you Mariana. So here are a few that we've sourced. So given the wide experience, of course, you've just clearly demonstrated on locally-led adaptation. What would you say are the most critical challenges that you've come across in dealing with and supporting this wide variety of locally-led adaptation initiatives? Yes, well, our local partners are experiencing many, many challenges and the most important challenge of Indigenous people at local level is the extractivism and of course the global warming related to climate change. But the extractivism is that the extractive industry is one of the most challenging issues of our local partners. And in our view is of course very difficult to deal with that, but we can see how at local level our partners are implemented a holistic approach. And this is very important because if we analyse the process and the strategies implemented at local level, it's not just one strategy. Focusing on one issue is holistic. The local partners are implemented strategies at maybe a regional level of advocacy at the same time that they are implemented very local action. So this range of strategies and a fund that is flexible as Pawanka and we allow our partners to really look and to decide which of the different actions they think that is a priority. I think that this is for us a key to support the action at a local level. Thank you, Mariana. Another question coming through from the audience is going back to the selection process that you mentioned and you mentioned the cultural indicators for selecting partners to deliver grants to. One of the questions coming through from the audience is if you could give us a bit more information on the concept of cultural due diligence and how it's applied through your grant making process. Yes, the cultural due diligence is the process of selection of our partners and it's based on eight cultural indicators. I can share maybe my colleagues in the in the in the meeting can share the eight cultural indicator in the chat so you can read them. These eight cultural indicator were selected by our guiding committee members these leaders, indigenous leaders from different region because Pawanka has is very, we have a rich diversity because we are dealing with, with a very different context and background, but also we need some common elements between the different region and indigenous people. So those eight cultural criteria are common elements, priorities of indigenous people in the different region. So the guiding committee make collective decisions on the partners based on those indicators. So they have to present and endorse a partner and they have to explain how this partner is aligned with these eight criteria, cultural criteria. So, later the whole guiding committee members in a, in a group, they decide if this partner is appropriate and they are aligned with our cultural criteria. So this is the first step. After that, if this selection process go well and the partner was selected, we have, you know, administrative and legal requirement, of course, because we are a legal entity and we need to fulfill a legal and administrative requirement, but it's not the first step of selection. And when the partner is selected, we support the process of strengthening their organization to fulfill the legal and administrative requirement with the translation of material, for example, or even the certification of the organization we have to accompany the partners to certify, to get their certification, to get their legal constitution of the organization. So this is like the second step. But in many cases, the selection of partners or grantees is based on technical criteria and the funds, they just review the proposals in a technical way. In this case, many of the funds go to NGOs, intermediate NGOs, and don't reach the indigenous communities or the indigenous organization at local level. And that's why Pawanka wanted to change that and is trying to build this process because it's not something that we really, we do the form the first day, we are building this cultural criteria. Thank you very much, Mariana. And just one final question for you to bring it back to the topic that Diana raised at the very beginning around financing. I'm wondering if you could say a bit about how global climate funds and donors might shift or better be able to support indigenous people specifically and get more finance behind their initiatives. To give some guidance, for instance, to funders or the donors seeking to replicate these kinds of approaches. What advice would you give? Yes. Well, our first advice is to base the relationship on trust. So to start to build a relationship on trust with the indigenous communities and indigenous organization. And of course, recognize the local knowledge that indigenous people in their places has because recognizing the knowledge is a way to change the idea that the funders have the solution and the implementers, they are just implementers. And a way to have a direct connection and a direct relationship within the communities and indigenous organization is a way to change that and not to go through intermediate NGOs that maybe they have technical expertise and they have experts in writing the reports or writing the proposal, but maybe they don't have the knowledge of the local problems and the possible solution at local level. So when we see indigenous people with their rich knowledge and really expertise at local level is a way to change that process.