Through sub-granting and non-financial support, DDI's partners provide digital support and capacity building to local change agents, grassroots, and social movements, as well as informal actors.
Below is an overview of the DDI partner's support mechanisms
Partner
Mechanism |
Description |
Target Groups |
Funding range |
Status |
| Digital Security Helpline | The Digital Security Helpline supports individuals and organisations worldwide in staying safe online. The Helpline 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. |
N/A |
Partner
Mechanism |
Description |
Target Groups |
Funding range |
Status |
| 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. |
EUR 4,255 – 8.510 |
Invitation only for subgrantees |
| Rapid Response Grants | Support for urgent needs in digital and women’s rights contexts. | Digital activists, women decision-makers and organisations with 1+ years of experience. |
EUR 4,255 – 8.510 |
Open |
| Multilevel collaboration Grants | 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. |
EUR 4,255 – 8.510 |
Invitation only |
| Grassroot Organisation's Grants | 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. |
EUR 5.957 - 12,766 |
Calls concluded |
Partner
Mechanism |
Description |
Target Groups |
Funding range |
Status |
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Regional Support Mechanism Grants
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Grants supporting local civil society groups via small- and large-scale funding. DDI South Asia; DemocráTICa; DDI East Asia; DDI MENA; DDI Digital Spark; and Digital Democracy Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa Fund | Local civil society actors including women, youth, LGBTQI+ groups. |
EUR 1.702 - 4.255 (small grants), |
Check partner websites |
| Regional Hackathons | 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 |
Calls concluded |
| Digital Resiliency Grants | Financial and non-financial support to marginalised civil society groups in repressive contexts to strengthen their digital resiliency. | Marginalized civil society actors facing existential threats (women, youth, LGBTQI+). |
EUR 8.510 - 17.021 |
Open |
| Digital Action Lab | Financial and non-financial support to local civil society groups to harness digital tools and strengthen digital capacities for inclusive democratic action. | Local civil society actors including women, youth, LGBTQI+ groups. |
Up to EUR 17.021 per applicant. |
Calls concluded |
| Election Grants | Financial support to civil society groups during elections. | Local civil society actors including women, youth, LGBTQI+ groups. |
EUR 25,938-34,584 |
Invitation only |
| Civic Tech Lab | Financial and non-financial support to local civil society groups to strengthen, scale, and expand mature civic-tech solutions. | Local civil society actors including women, youth, LGBTQI+ groups. |
Up to EUR 17,292 |
Calls concluded |
| Tech Accompaniment Programme | Non-financial support to CIVICUS members to strengthen digital maturity, security, and long-term digital transformation capacity. | CIVICUS members |
Non-financial |
Calls concluded |
Partner
Mechanism |
Description |
Target Groups |
Funding range |
Status |
| Incident Response Funding | 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. | Up to EUR 5,000 | Open |
| Sustainable Protection Funding | 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. |
Up to EUR 15,000 |
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| Regional Network Funding | 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 |
Up to EUR 20,000 |
|
| Community Network Funding Digital Protection | 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 |
Up to EUR 15,000 |
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| Digital Protection Accompaniment | 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 |
N/A |
|
| Feminist Helpline Community | 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. |
N/A |
Partner
Mechanism |
Description |
Target Groups |
Funding range |
Status |
| 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 |
Invitation only |
| Electoral Civic Tech Fund (Africtivistes) | Support to youth civic tech orgs working on elections. | Youth civic tech organisations based in Sahel/Horn of Africa. |
Total envelop: |
Open |
| 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 |
|
| Youth-led Advocacy Initiatives (NIMD) | Support to youth political advocacy projects. | Young politicians and HRDs in implementation countries. |
EUR 1000 per grant |
Invitation only |
| Advocacy Subgrants (EPD) | Support to advocacy work targeting national institutions. | Youth-led CSOs in the Youth Democracy Cohort. |
EUR 25,000 per grant |
Invitation only |
| Support to Content Creators (EPD) | Financial and creative support to young influencers. | Young social media influencers in target regions. |
EUR 1.999 per grant |
Invitation only |
| 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 |
Invitation only |
| 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 |
Invitation only |
| 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) |
Invitation only |
| Guardian fellowship | Supports coaching Human Rights Defenders on digital protection | Young Human Rights Defenders |
N/A |
Open |
Partner
Mechanism |
Description |
Target Groups |
Funding range |
Status |
| Partner-Embedded Emergency Funds (via sub-granting) | Emergency funds provided through partner projects for indigenous communities. | Indigenous peoples benefiting from 'Amplifying Indigenous Activists Voices: Countering Climate Disinformation' project. |
N/A |
Invitation only |
| Digital Security Capacity-Strengthening Grants (via subgranting) | Grants to improve digital security capacity and resilience of organisations, Individuals and networks via trainings, organisation improvement, procurement of equipment and infrastructure | Indigenous Peoples and Civil Society Organisations benefitting from the "Amplifying Indigenous Activist Voices: Countering Climate Disinformation Project" | N/A | Invitation only |
| Digital Security Audits and Capacity-Strengthening Support | Digital security assessments and financial support to strengthen organizational security systems, policies, and practices. | Indigenous Peoples and Civil Society organisations benefitting from the "Amplifying Indigenous Activist Voices: Countering Climate Disinformation Project" | N/A | Invitation only |
| Advocacy Grants (via subgranting) | Grants to support Indigenous Peoples' engagement in digital spaces and to promote, protect, and safeguard their rights IN online spaces | Indigenous Peoples and Civil Society organisations benefitting from the "Amplifying Indigenous Activist Voices: Countering Climate Disinformation Project" | N/A | Invitation only |
| Capacity-strengthening of organizations, networks, and Indigenous Peoples' communities to respond to climate misinformation and disinformation | Workshops and training on tools a to counter misinformation and disinformation, including fact-checking and constructive journalism. | Media, Journalists, content creators, Indigenous communicators | N/A | Invitation and open call |
| Grants for content creation aimed at combating climate misinformation and disinformation (via subgranting) | Grants supporting media organizations and content producers in the production and dissemination of content that combats climate misinformation and disinformation. | Media, Journalists, content creators, Indigenous communicators | N/A | Invitation and open call |
Partner
Mechanism |
Description |
Target Groups |
Funding range |
Status |
| AI Literacy Trainings | Online introductory trainings, open to civil society, designed to expand their understanding of impacts of generative AI on audiovisual witnessing. | Civil society groups interested in AI literacy. |
N/A |
Invitation only |
| Convenings | Hosting a series of spaces to bring together stakeholders to share knowledge and identify emerging risks around AI Detection, Provenance, and Authenticity and Likeness Protection. | Civil society groups, journalists, technologists, researchers, and AI practitioners. |
Varies by project and participant needs. |
Invitation only |
| Deepfake Rapid Response Force | The Deepfake Rapid Response Force (DRRF) is a volunteer-led mechanism providing rapid expert assessment and verification of suspected AI-generated or manipulated content. | Community journalists and fact-checkers in high-risk environments with limited technical resources and heightened political or physical risk. |
Varies by project and participant needs. |
Invitation only |
| Fortify Community Truth Project | 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, and OSINT. |
Varies by project and participant needs. |
Invitation only |