Open Briefing operates a rapid response mechanism to provide fully-funded holistic security mentoring and remote accompaniment to human rights defenders and other civic actors at risk of physical, digital, or psychological harm.
This support is available to civil society organisations, informal groups, or activists meeting the following criteria:
- Using non-violent means to agitate and advocate for rights and justice.
- Have been targeted or are at high risk of attacks and reprisals.
- Cannot otherwise fund or realistically secure funding for the support.
- Working anywhere in the global south or in a country outside the United States with a closed, repressed or obstructed civic space.*
* The US exclusion is due to grant restrictions; however, it does not apply to grantees or sub-grantees of the Packard Foundation.
Referral partners and at-risk organisations can request safety and security, digital security or wellbeing and resilience support. We ask that informal groups or individual activists are referred by one of our referral partners. Support may be available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese or Arabic.
- Further information for referral partners and recipients.
- Further information for Packard Foundation staff, grantees, and sub-grantees only.
- Full terms and conditions.
