Governance and participation During the participatory visioning process, ASHA (then called ASHI) was fiscally sponsored by the Pachamama Alliance. In July 2023, ASHA transitioned its operations to a new Indigenous-led non-profit entity legally incorporated in Ecuador with the Spanish name “Alianza Cuencas Sagradas Amazónicas”. The new alliance is governed by a general assembly of members which is composed of representatives of the 28 member organizations and meets twice annually to make decisions about strategic priorities. ASHA is operationally governed by an 11-member board of directors which meets every one to three months to provide direction to the secretariat. The board includes four seats for the Indigenous co-founders of the newly constituted organization; three permanent seats for the three regional associations (AIDESEP , CONFENIAE and COICA); two rotating seats from local Indigenous organizations; and two rotating seats for NGO members of the alliance. The alliance is further guided by a council of Indigenous wisdom keepers and a global commission of experts. Team culture and competencies Competencies: The competencies that the technical secretariat team bring to the work are currently open as ASHA is in the process of transitioning from a mostly non-Indigenous technical secretariat serving the Indigenous member organizations to one that has greater Indigenous leadership in senior management. This requires deep trust building and patience as the organization works to fill the key management roles such as executive director and programme manager with committed and talented Indigenous leaders.Values: ASHA’s work benefits from the deep commitment of their team and board to Indigenous ancestral values, spirituality and sacred nature. Its solutions are rooted in Amazonian territories and holistic in its proposed solutions. The Bioregional Plan is based on Indigenous philosophy and cosmovision of buen vivir (living in collective harmony with all life). Indigenous Peoples’ worldviews, knowledge systems and holistic approaches to problem solving can truly light the way to designing effective transition strategies at scale. Collaborative and adaptive learning: ASHA is in the process of designing a more robust learning monitoring and evaluation system in 2025 that uses both qualitative and quantitative assessments to measure impact and share learnings. Enabling technology ASHA has been working with technology developers and monitoring and evaluation experts to use ArcGIS in the design of a geographic information system (GIS) platform, which includes a social atlas (socioeconomic and population/census data) of the Sacred Headwaters bioregion. The platform is currently in beta and is publicly accessible. The project represents the first comprehensive map developed and designed by Indigenous Amazonians, representing these territories. It will be used as a tool for analysis and prioritization as well as documenting ASHA’s interventions and telling stories that include maps and geospatial information. So far, ASHA has not had the staff capacity to put the system into full use, but they have begun to train Indigenous organizations' own teams to use and access the information. ASHA is also developing a platform for visibly seeing the myriad projects that the technical secretariat and members of the Alliance are implementing or fundraising to implement in the territories. This platform is currently in beta in collaboration with the Open Futures Coalition. Supporting infrastructure The Future is Collective: Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation 12

The Future is Collective Case Studies of Collective Social Innovation 2025