Apply before July 31, 2025, to assess the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, and emerging outcomes of the Holistic Protection Consortium’s efforts to enhance the safety of human rights defenders worldwide.
- Location: Home-Based
- Type of Contract: Self-employed Consultancy Contract
- Estimated Start Date: August 11, 2025
- Estimated End Date: September, 2025
The Holistic Protection Consortium aims at ensuring greater safety, both online and offline, for human rights defenders (HRDs) worldwide through a holistic program of preventative and protective safety support including physical, digital, legal, and psychosocial safety. The program focuses on the most vulnerable, marginalised and at-risk HRDs, including but not limited to those in conflict and crisis, WHRDs, LGBTQIA+ defenders, environmental defenders, and indigenous rights defenders, while applying gender, feminist and intersectional protection approaches. Specific outcomes of the program include:
- HRDs have better access to 24/7 protection mechanisms to respond to urgent safety threats
- HRDs are better equipped and resourced to prevent and mitigate urgent and structural safety threats
- Strengthened protection environment and legitimacy of HRDs
The Consortium unites the expertise of Access Now, Digital Defenders Partnership (hosted by Hivos), and Front Line Defenders. The program started on the 1st of January, 2023 and is planned to end on the 31st of December 2027.
The evaluation will examine the extent to which the Consortium’s holistic protection model — encompassing digital, physical, legal, and psychosocial safety — has improved HRDs’ access to emergency support, strengthened their ability to prevent and mitigate safety risks, and contributed to a more enabling protection environment. The evaluation will cover the period from the program’s inception on January 1st, 2023, through to its midpoint on June 30th, 2025.