Victor Reyes is an experienced grants officer currently working at The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility since January 2023. Previously, Victor served as a project manager at Green Forum Sweden, overseeing the Organizational Support Programme from April 2018 to February 2023. Prior experience includes roles as a project specialist for TechnoServe, focusing on monitoring and evaluation of a Business Accelerator project, and as a project manager for United Nations Volunteers, responsible for the National CSR Policy project. Victor has held various positions with the National Secretariat for Planning and Development, provided training to public officers at the Ecuador President's Office, and contributed to market analysis and business plan development at Geopetsa. Victor started a career at Amnesty International and holds an MSc in International Development and Management from Lund University.
The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility
The International Land and Forest Tenure Facility (Tenure Facility) is the first and only international, multi-stakeholder financial mechanism exclusively focused on securing land and forest rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. It provides grants to implement tenure rights under existing law and policy and shares the knowledge, innovations and tools that emerge. The Tenure Facility is dedicated to scaling up recognition of collective land and forest rights globally. This helps reduce conflict and further the achievement of global human rights, environment, and development goals. The Tenure Facility is an international foundation registered in Sweden. The Tenure Facility is supported by several donors, including the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Good Energies Foundation, Mulago Foundation, the European Commission, Global Wildlife Conservation, and the Ford Foundation.