Grants and Contributions

The Common Good Cyber Fund is a collaborative initiative designed to fortify cybersecurity defenses where they’re needed most. Led by cybersecurity experts and implemented by the Internet Society (ISOC), the fund will support the cybersecurity nonprofits whose missions are to maintain the critical cybersecurity infrastructure and deliver scalable solutions to secure high-risk actors from digital harm, including NGOs, journalists, and human rights defenders.

This project strengthens the participation of global majority, women’s rights, and other marginalized civil society actors in international digital technology governance. Working in six partner countries - Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico, Nigeria, and South Africa - it also supports policymakers and Freedom Online Coalition (FOC) Member States to advance more inclusive, coordinated, and human-rights-promoting digital policy outcomes.

Digital Transnational Detection Academy will work to address the critical challenge of digital transnational repression (DTNR) by building the capacity of likeminded democratic countries to detect, analyze, and respond to DTNR activities. The Academy will provide customized and gender-sensitive training to G7 partners and aligned Emerging Markets and Developing Countries (EMDCs) focused on detecting and countering DTNR operations. Training will combine expert instruction and interactive workshops, as well as community-building and technical consultations. The highly interactive training sessions will include advanced open source investigation techniques across multiple platforms, digital security practices, and methods to detect inauthentic behavior online.

The project aims to strengthen press freedom for climate and environmental journalists in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda. Over a 36-month period, International Press Institute would monitor and collect data on press freedom violations, focusing on climate and environmental journalism in sub-Saharan Africa. It would establish a multi-stakeholder coalition to co-create advocacy materials to raise awareness of threats to press freedom and journalist safety, urging public and private actors to fulfill commitments to protect these rights. The coalition would also coordinate actions against attacks, including information manipulation, targeting environmental journalists, and provide capacity building and support for at-risk journalists in the region.

The project aims to increase voter resilience in the Philippines, Czechia, and Côte d’Ivoire to foreign manipulation and interference in information. Over a period of 15 months, the project will coordinate with journalists, content creators, civil society and public sector actors, as well as international partners and election observers, to develop context-specific interventions in the targeted countries, conduct tailored and gender-responsive training workshops, and provide technical support. The project will also establish and operate a monitoring and early warning team, which will set up a designated physical “situation room” in the country to detect, analyze, and disseminate information on interference patterns and relevant narratives, and develop actions to counter foreign manipulation and interference in information in these countries.

The project aims to increase women and girls' access to civic and political leadership opportunities in Chile, Bolivia, Honduras, Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina to achieve better representation and gender equality. Over a 24-month period, the project would monitor and document the impact of information manipulation on women participating in electoral processes through national-level surveys and statistical analysis, conduct training and workshops to equip women candidates and activists with strategies to identify and combat gendered information manipulation, and launch awareness and advocacy campaigns to educate the public and policymakers on its effects on women's political participation. Additionally, the project would collaborate with regional partners, multi-stakeholder organizations, and tech platforms, where appropriate, to influence improved digital governance measures and policies instituted by state authorities.

Counteracting Transnational Repression and Protecting Civil Society in the Digital Age, aims to increase the safety and security of civil society actors and human rights defenders, with a focus on communities impacted by transnational repression. Over a 24-month period, the project would deliver targeted digital security support through Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline, conduct advocacy to combat transnational repression tactics like surveillance and spyware, and facilitate multi-stakeholder engagement on digital security threats through the RightsCon Summit Series.

The project aims to consolidate the electoral expertise of RECEF member organizations in order to promote stable democratic institutions that are sensitive to gender equality issues, in order to enable the holding of free, reliable, transparent, peaceful and inclusive elections. Project main activities include five main activities: electoral seminars, training activities of the Women's Forum, study missions, bilateral cooperation activities and the publication of electoral studies.

This project will support partners in Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra-Leone to utilize evidence-based research to design and implement their own initiatives to defend an inclusive information space ahead of their respective elections.

The project aims at addressing the problem of gender-based and intersectional discrimination in the administration of justice in death penalty cases around the world, to advocate for the full abolition of capital punishment. The objective will be achieved by capacity building efforts with States & CSOs, research, training, technical assistance & development of tools including communication strategies.