Deadline: 30-Apr-23
The Digital Defenders Partnership is inviting applications for the Sustainable Protection Fund to help human rights organisations or collectives build their long-term digital security capacities.
Funding Information
- It provides grants of up to 30,000 USD and covers activities for a maximum of one year.
What does the SPF cover?
- New computers, servers, or hosting for data or websites.
- Technical support in implementing new systems.
- Training or accompaniment processes on digital security or other aspects of security and protection.
- Measures to improve physical security, which support information management and digital security.
- Measures to address the psychological and psychosocial impacts of digital threats.
Eligibility Criteria
- DDP target groups are women, feminist and LGTBQIA+ organisations; land and environmental rights defenders; and journalists and other actors who make information available to the public.
- Central Asia and the Caucasus
- Countries: Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- Preference will be given to organisations working in the following spheres: rule of law, anti-corruption, election observation, independent media, digital rights and freedom of expression, feminism and women’s rights, LGTBQIA+ rights, and conflict transformation.
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia.
- Preference will be given to organisations working in the following spheres: Roma rights, anti-racism and migrant rights, feminism and women’s rights, LGTBQIA+ rights, independent media, and digital rights and freedom of expression.
For more information, visit Sustainable Protection Fund.
