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.
Discover our funds
Incident Response Fund
Our rapid response mechanism for Human Rights defenders, journalists, and activists facing digital threats or attacks.
Regional Partnership Fund
To support initiatives promoting digital protection for Human Rights defenders operating in a single country or region.
Sustainable Protection Fund
To support Human Rights organisations build their digital security capacities over a more extended period.
Community and Network Fund
To support initiatives from rapid responders and digital security facilitators.
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.
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
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
Organisations Expanding Civic Space
Including independent media, pro-democracy organisations and networks which are expanding civic space.
- CLOSED
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
DDP Focus Groups
Specifically media and freedom of expression, civil and political rights, feminist and LGBTQIA+ movements.
- OPEN: SPF & RPF
Community Organisations and Networks
Women, feminist, LGTBQIA+ and alternative, community or popular media organisations, collectives and networks.
- CLOSED