A number of partners, including UNEP-WCMC, UNDP, the GEF Small Grants Programme, the Government of Norway, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and the ICCA Consortium, worked closely to develop this toolkit for governing and managing Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs). The purpose of the toolkit is to complement ongoing efforts to build capacity of ICCAs as they gain greater recognition on a global scale. Just as national governments require guidelines and benchmarks for managing their designated protected areas, indigenous peoples and local communities need to access a set of tools and resources appropriate to their needs. The toolkit includes a range of case studies to highlight the diversity of approaches that communities already use to manage their own areas, and to show how these lessons can be applied to form a “global learning network” of ICCAs. The majority of conservation tools developed to date have been designed primarily for protected area managers, practitioners, or government agencies. In parallel, a growing number of tools and guides are being written for community-based organisations, particularly for those living in particular habitats (i.e. forests, coasts etc.), or those facing specific threats (i.e. linked to global climate change or extractive industries). The present toolkit was designed to bring together a number of these resources for the purpose of building local capacities to effectively manage ICCAs. Given the increasing recognition of community-based conservation and governance at the global level, the publication is one modest contribution towards the achievement of CBD Aichi 2020 targets, as well as the UN post-2015 sustainable development agenda.