Support Mechanisms of the DDI Programme
Through sub-granting, DDI's partners provide digital support and capacity to local change agents, grassroots and social movements, as well as informal actors.
Below an overview of the DDI partner's support mechanisms
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Description
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Target Groups |
Funding range
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The Digital Security Helpline supports individuals and organisations worldwide in staying safe online. The Helipline assist those at risk in strengthening their digital security practices, and provide rapid emergency support to those under active attack. |
Civil society groups, activists, media organizations, journalists, bloggers, and human rights defenders. |
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Strengthening Capacities (workshops, meetings, materials) |
Capacity-building activities through events and resources. workshops, meetings, material |
Digital activists, women decision-makers and organisations with 2+ years of experience. |
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Support for urgent needs in digital and women’s rights contexts. |
Digital activists, women decision-makers and organisations with 1+ years of experience. |
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Flexible financial support for specific initiatives led by digital or women's organisations. |
Digital activists, women decision-makers and organisations with 2+ years of experience. |
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Funding for legally registered alliances of organisations/networks/coalitions specialized in gender and technology operating in 2+ countries, led by digital activists or women leaders. |
Organisations specialized in gender and technology operating in 2+ countries with legal registration and 2+ years of experience. |
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Financial support for grassroots organisations led by digital activists, by specialists in gender and technology or women decision-makers. |
Organisations of digital activists, digital specialists, women decision-makers and women's organisations with 2+ years of experience. |
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Subgranting of Youth Digital Innovative Initiatives (WOSM) |
Financial support for youth-led local digital solutions and access to technology. |
20 individuals and/or youth organisations based in Sahel and Horn of Africa. |
EUR 2.499 per grant
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Electoral Civic Tech Fund (Africtivistes) |
Support to youth civic tech orgs working on elections. |
Youth civic tech organisations based in Sahel/Horn of Africa. |
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Code for Africa Fellowships |
Fellowships and seed grants for AI and data-focused digital innovation. |
Tech-savvy youth and young human rights defenders. |
EUR 1.339 - 2.679 |
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Youth-led Advocacy Initiatives (NIMD) |
Support to youth political advocacy projects. |
Young politicians and HRDs in implementation countries. |
EUR 1000 per grant
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Advocacy Subgrants (EPD) |
Support to advocacy work targeting national institutions. |
Youth-led CSOs in the Youth Democracy Cohort. |
EUR 25,000 per grant
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Support to Content Creators (EPD) |
Financial and creative support to young influencers. |
Young social media influencers in target regions. |
EUR 1.999 per grant |
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Emergency Solidarity Fund (EPD) |
Support for HR organisations to protect young HRDs under threat. |
Young HRDs under threat due to activism. |
EUR 19.991 per grant
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Seeds Funding for Hackathon Winners (Africtivistes) |
Seed grants to support winning hackathon teams. |
Youth civic tech organisations in target regions. |
EUR 4.997 per grant
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Training Grants for Access (KAF & WOSM) |
Grants for training recipients and national scout organisations to replicate digital access training. |
Highly motivated training recipients and national scout orgs in target regions. |
EUR 11.994 (KAF) / 19.991 (WOSM)
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Guardian fellowship |
Supports coaching Human Rights Defenders on digital protection |
Young Human Rights Defenders |
N/A |
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Emergency funds provided through partner projects for indigenous communities. |
Indigenous peoples benefiting from 'Amplifying Indigenous Activists Voices: Countering Climate Disinformation' project. |
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#verifybeforesharing Instagram Contest |
Open call contest encouraging youth to create videos showing how to spot misinformation. |
All Africans aged 16+ |
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Week-long storytelling and strategic communication workshop for movements defending territories in Mexico and Central America. |
Movements in Mexico and Central America with prior communication skills. |
Varies by project and participant needs. |
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Training and funding support for communities defending territories in Latin America to set up autonomous servers. |
Communities in Latin America defending their territories with relevant technical/media knowledge. |
Varies by project and participant needs. |
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Cohort-based support for building grassroots resilience and verification skills to combat misinformation in West and Central Africa. |
Networks with knowledge in social media, media language, camera use, or investigative journalism; specific to West and Central Africa. |
Varies by project and participant needs. |
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Regional Support Mechanism Grants (Undertaking) |
Grants supporting local civil society groups via small- and large-scale funding. |
Local civil society actors including women, youth, LGBTQI+ groups. |
EUR 1.702 - 4.255 (small grants), |
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Hackathons with financial and non-financial support for local actors. |
Local civil society actors including women, youth, LGBTQI+ groups. |
EUR 2.553- 12.766 for hackathon beneficiaries |
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Financial and non-financial support for marginalized civil society groups in repressive contexts. |
Marginalized civil society actors facing existential threats (women, youth, LGBTQI+). |
EUR 8.510 - 17.021 |
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Digtal Action Lab |
Financial and non-financial support for local civil society actors, including marginalized groups. |
Local civil society actors including women, youth, LGBTQI+ groups. |
Up to EUR 17.021 per applicant. |
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Financial support to civil society groups during elections. |
Local civil society actors including women, youth, LGBTQI+ groups. |
EUR 17.021 |
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Rapid response mechanism for human rights defenders, journalists, activists and organisations facing digital threats and attacks. |
Human rights defenders, journalists, activists and organisations facing digital threats and attacks. |
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To help human rights organisations, including journalists, grass-roots and social movements, build their digital security capacities over a more extended period. |
Women, feminist and LGTBQIA+ organisations; land and environmental rights defenders; and journalists and other actors who make information available to the public. |
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Supporting initiatives promoting online freedom and digital protection for human rights defenders which operate in a single country or region. |
Applicants should be committed to strengthening local or regional resources and capacities, and take into account the needs of marginalised peoples, such as women, LGBTQIA+ people, ethnic minorities, disabled persons, and others traditionally underserved |
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Supporting initiatives for building skills, capacities, collaboration, and exchange among rapid responders and digital security organisations and individuals working on holistic security for human rights defenders. |
Digital security organisations and individuals working on holistic security for human rights defenders |
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A holistic programme of activities, including sustainable responses to threats, facilitation, and community building within the broader ecosystem of support to human rights defenders under digital threats. |
Digital Protection Accompaniment Human rights defenders, journalists, activists and organisations facing digital threats and attacks |
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A global community of initiatives that provide support to women and LGTBQIA+ people facing technology-facilitated gender-based violence. |
Women and LGTBQIA+ people facing technology-facilitated gender-based violence. |
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