Digital Defenders Partnership
We fund. We accompany. We facilitate communities.
Discover our funds
Incident Emergency Fund
Our rapid response mechanism for Human Rights defenders, journalists, and activists facing digital threats or attacks.
Community and Network Fund
To support initiatives from rapid responders and digital security facilitators.
Sustainable Protection Fund
To support Human Rights organisations build their digital security capacities over a more extended period.
Global Partnership Fund
To support multi-regional initiatives
which have a global reach and local focus.
Regional Partnership Fund
To support initiatives promoting digital protection for Human Rights defenders operating in a single country or region.
Bessy Ferrera Emergency Fund
Emergency mechanism for LGBTQIA+ activists that work with Hivos or Hivos’ partners around the globe.
Digital Protection Accompaniment
DDP accompanies activists, organisations and networks under digital siege to build sustainable digital protection practices from a holistic, community-centred and instersectional perspective.
Feminism and decolonisation
We adopt a feminist and intersectional approach as the epistemological basis for our analysis and the development of our internal and external programmes. We are actively looking to make visible and ponder power relations taking place in our strategies and operations.
The Digital First Aid Kit is a free resource to help rapid responders, digital security trainers, and tech-savvy activists to better protect themselves and the communities they support against the most common types of digital emergencies.