The project is based on the Indigenous Centred Research approach, which is community-led and focuses on co-developing methods and techniques drawn from the tradition of Indigenous communities (Dimayuga, Sur, Choi, A. & et al, 2023; Rogers, 2023; Yamane & Helm, 2022; Drawson, Toombs & Mushquash, 2017). The project comprises four inter-linked Work Packages (WPs). WP4 will collaboratively develop and implement the Research Indigenous Communities of Practice (RICOP). This initiative is guided by Indigenous People, local communities (including Amazon `quilombolas`, riverside dwellers), practitioners, academics, policymakers, and representatives from both governmental and non-governmental organisations in Brazil. RICOP will support the research methodological design, application, and analysis in all WPs.

Photo: Bimi Pinu Yuxibu (Maria de Fátima Sales Sereno Kaxinawá, Yakã Institute, Brazil) is our Research Assistant. She is an Indigenous woman leader from Huni Kuin ethnicity, she lives in Indigenous land at Ni Yuxibu community in Amazon (one of our field visits in WP2); she will support the co-development of all WPs.