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Our mission is to sustain and support a global alliance of communities that are demonstrating intergenerational responsibility of care for land and water. We want guardianship to be recognised as a legitimate model of governance — one that institutions, authorities, funders and donors can support through effective, place-based and community-led practice.

 

Our aim is to champion and catalyse guardianship through legal recognition of community titles, informal alliances, co-stewarding arrangements, land tenure reform, forest twinning, memoranda of understanding with local governments, advocacy, policy change, paralegal advice and, of course, economic support and capacity building— one guardian community at a time.

 

Since its foundation in 2022, GWW has focused only on 8 communities in 6 countries to ensure continuity, longevity and sustainability of action. We work with four different types of guardians: Indigenous, Afro-descendent, traditional rural and urban youth.

 

In short, we believe that we can regenerate the way we all relate to land based on the cultivation of shared values, especially long-term responsibility for, and reciprocity with, the natural world.