Community Partnership Agreement

Cooperation agreement between the 4rest4all Association and an Indigenous association under Sacred Seeds of the Amazon

Document 2 · Template to be reviewed by legal counsel and adapted per territory

4rest4all Association

CNPJ 66.464.130/0001-93

Flora Ardenghi Dutra - Founder and Executive Director

Technical partner: 751.Earth · Green Climate Fund proposal - 2026

Version: June 2026 · Reference draft

Notice. This is a reference template, not a legal opinion. It must be reviewed by a socio-environmental lawyer, adapted to each people's own protocol, and validated in assembly before signing. 4rest4all does not replace the communities' independent legal advice.

Identification of the parties

By this private instrument, on one side:

IMPLEMENTING PARTNER: 4REST4ALL ASSOCIATION, registered under CNPJ 66.464.130/0001-93, herein represented by its Executive Director, Flora Ardenghi Dutra, hereinafter “4rest4all”;

and, on the other side:

COMMUNITY PARTNER: ________________________________________ [name of the Indigenous association], registered under CNPJ ____________________, headquartered at ____________________, represented in accordance with its bylaws and the decisions of its assembly, hereinafter the “Association”;

together referred to as the “Parties,” freely and in good faith enter into this Community Partnership Agreement, governed by the following clauses.

Clause 1 - Purpose

The purpose of this Agreement is cooperation between the Parties to implement, within the Association's territory, the activities of the Sacred Seeds of the Amazon project - seed sovereignty, traditional food systems, biodiversity, agroforestry restoration and the strengthening of Indigenous territorial governance - always under community leadership and protagonism.

Clause 2 - Non-negotiable principles

The Parties recognize as the basis of the Agreement:

Indigenous protagonism and authorship over knowledge, seeds, food systems and territory.
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) before any field activity, research, recording, imaging or collection.
Decision-making in accordance with the people's own protocols and the assembly's decisions.
Shared benefit, transparency and accountability accessible to the community.
Protection of traditional knowledge and community veto over any unauthorized use.
Absolute protection of peoples in voluntary isolation, who will not be approached under any circumstances.

Clause 3 - Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)

No activity under this Agreement will begin without documented FPIC. The FPIC process will observe: (i) clear prior information on objectives, risks, benefits, partners, budget and uses of data and knowledge; (ii) an assembly or consultation in the format defined by the people, with cultural time respected; (iii) community deliberation - approval, rejection or approval with conditions; and (iv) an authorization document (minutes, resolution, letter or authorized audiovisual record). The Association may, at any time, review or withdraw consent for future activities.

Clause 4 - Obligations of 4rest4all

Respect the consultation protocol and the assembly's decisions.
Provide resources, training, equipment and technical support in line with the territorial work plan.
Ensure that all documentation produced remains the property of the community.
Be accountable in a simple, accessible and periodic manner, validated by the community.
Not publish, commercialize or share data, images or knowledge without specific authorization.
Arrange the transfer of the shared benefit in accordance with Clause 7.

Clause 5 - Obligations of the Association

Designate focal points, women guardians, young researchers and elder advisors who will lead local activities.
Institutionally validate the stages, documents and accountability.
Define, together with the community, what may be recorded, published or kept confidential.
Inform 4rest4all of any risks, conflicts or need to revise conditions.

Clause 6 - Intellectual property and traditional knowledge

All documented traditional knowledge, seeds, practices and cultural expressions remain the collective property of the community. The Parties will observe Law No. 13,123/2015 (access to genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge) and the Nagoya Protocol. Recording a seed or plant does NOT imply permission to collect, transport, commercialize, research in the laboratory or patent. Any scientific or commercial use requires specific authorization, its own benefit-sharing contract, and compliance with applicable law.

Clause 7 - Shared benefit

The Parties agree:

Minimum share of the territorial budget allocated directly to the Association: ________ % [to be defined and recorded in the budget plan].
Transfers per territory, with simple accountability validated by the community.
Non-financial benefits: training, equipment, infrastructure, support for documentation and education, and institutional strengthening.
A benefit-sharing mechanism for any bioeconomy products, defined in a specific instrument before any commercialization.

Clause 8 - Governance and data protection

Community data will be classified, by community decision, as public, restricted, confidential or sacred/internal. Images of people, rituals, sensitive plants or vulnerable areas will not be published without specific authorization. Each territory will keep a local copy of its records (printed and/or digital, offline). Reports to funders will contain only summaries, indicators and narratives, without exposing sensitive knowledge.

Clause 9 - Term

This Agreement is in force for ________ months from the date of signing, renewable by written agreement between the Parties, subject to a new community decision where applicable.

Clause 10 - Termination

The Agreement may be terminated by either Party upon written notice, especially in case of breach of the principles in Clause 2. Withdrawal of community consent immediately ends the corresponding field activities. Termination does not affect community ownership of knowledge already documented, nor the obligation to account for resources already transferred.

Clause 11 - Safeguards and dispute resolution

The Parties will seek to resolve any disputes through direct dialogue and the mediation mechanisms recognized by the community, respecting the people's own protocols, before any judicial measure. The competent Federal Court is elected, given the Indigenous interest, to settle matters not resolved amicably.

Clause 12 - General provisions

This Agreement creates no employment relationship between the Parties, nor between 4rest4all and the Indigenous participants. Amendments will be made by written addendum. The annexes below are an integral part of this instrument for all purposes.

Integral annexes

Annex	Content
Annex I - Territorial fiche	Territory data, peoples, leaders, contacts and technical focus.
Annex II - FPIC record	Record of the assembly, decisions and community conditions.
Annex III - Data protocol	Access levels: public, restricted, confidential, sacred/internal.
Annex IV - Benefit plan	Percentage, transfers, schedule and accountability.
Annex V - Work plan	Activities, responsibilities, schedule and outputs per phase.

Signatures

And, being thus agreed, the Parties sign this instrument in two copies of equal content, in the presence of the witnesses below.

Place and date: ____________________________, ______ of ______________, ________.

For 4rest4all	For the Association
_______________________________ Flora Ardenghi Dutra Executive Director	_______________________________ Name: ______________________ Title: ______________________

Witness 1	Witness 2
_______________________________ Name: ______________________ ID/CPF: ______________________	_______________________________ Name: ______________________ ID/CPF: ______________________