Open Briefing is a unique non-profit that provides human rights defenders and other civic actors at risk with mentoring, capacity building and multilingual resources to improve their safety and security, digital security, and wellbeing and resilience.

As a social enterprise, we also help charities, grantmakers, and social businesses understand and meet their risk management, duty of care, data protection, and safeguarding commitments to staff and local partners.

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We know our support works: our clients and beneficiaries reported a 17% increase in resilience and a 23% increase in capacity last year.

Latest news

Impact Report 2020

25 February 2021

Navigate the support available in an emergency with our new Protection Ecosystem Map

16 February 2021

Opportunities for French-speaking counsellors at Open Briefing (remote)

18 January 2021

v2.0 of the Defender’s Protocol is available now in 21 languages plus a new online handbook!

6 January 2021

Reflections and Christmas closing

30 November 2020

Holistic security support

4 November 2020

Funded support

We provide advice, capacity building and mentoring to at-risk defenders, collectives and civil society organisations in the global south.

Resources

We build multilingual tools, apps and guides to strengthen the individual and collective safety and resilience of civil society organisations and civic actors around the world.

Engagement

We collaborate and advocate to defend civil society and protect civic space wherever it is threatened.

Consultancy

We provide bespoke consultancy, training and retained support to help charities, foundations and social businesses meet their duty of care, data protection and safeguarding obligations.