Funds

Digital Defenders Partnership provides financial support to to build digital security capacities. Discover which fund suits your needs.

Announcement

Due to recent changes in US development aid policy, we are forced to pause the Incident Response Fund until further notice. We will only keep processing grants accepted up to January 24. We are working to reestablish the normal functioning of the fund.

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Incident Response Fund

Our rapid response mechanism for Human Rights defenders, journalists, and activists facing digital threats or attacks.

UP TO €10,000

PAUSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Regional Partnership Fund

To support initiatives promoting digital protection for Human Rights defenders operating in a single country or region.

REGION-BASED

OPEN: SWANA REGION

Sustainable Protection Fund

To support Human Rights organisations build their digital security capacities over a more extended period.

REGION-BASED

OPEN: SWANA REGION

Community and Network Fund

To support initiatives from rapid responders and digital security facilitators.

UP TO €17,000

INVITATION ONLY

2025 Open Calls

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Regional Focus Groups

While DDP continues to operate globally and present as a single organisation, regional teams have ownership over the grants to best allocate them according to their needs and contexts.

2025 ANGLOPHONE AFRICA

DDP Focus Groups

Plus Roma rights, anti-racism and migrant rights organisations in Central and Eastern Europe; and rule of law, anti-corruption, election observation, conflict transformation and independent media organisations in Central Asia and Caucasus.

CLOSED

2025 FRANCOPHONE AFRICA

DDP Focus Groups

Women, feminist and LGTBQIA+ organisations; land and environmental rights defenders; and journalists and other actors who make information available to the public.

CLOSED

2025 ASIA

Organisations Expanding Civic Space

Including independent media, pro-democracy organisations and networks which are expanding civic space.

CLOSED

2025 EECCA

DDP Focus Groups

CLOSED

2025 SWANA

DDP Focus Groups

Specifically media and freedom of expression, civil and political rights, feminist and LGBTQIA+ movements.

OPEN: SPF & RPF

2025 LATIN AMERICA

Community Organisations and Networks

Women, feminist, LGTBQIA+ and alternative, community or popular media organisations, collectives and networks.

CLOSED