At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Open Briefing supported activists, Indigenous leaders, and grassroots partners to stay safe, resilient, and visible within COP do Povo - a powerful, people-led alternative space rooted in collective protection and lived experience.
Through our partnership with the Tifa Foundation and the JPLKI, we supported a locally led protection ecosystem in Indonesia—strengthening networks, building shared capacity, and expanding access to holistic security for defenders at risk. Read our blog to find out more.
Threats against defenders in Burundi can shift quickly, leaving little room for safe decision-making. Open Briefing’s safety and security specialists worked closely with our wellbeing team to provide tailored, responsive support as this defender navigated a fast-changing environment. Read the full story in our new anonymised case study.
At COP do Povo – The People’s COP – in Belém, our team worked on the ground alongside activists, Indigenous leaders, and grassroots partners to strengthen collective protection and provide holistic security and safeguarding support. This reflection, co-authored by Renata Oliveira and Carla Vitória Barbosa, shares what we witnessed and why people-led spaces matter for climate justice.
We are searching for safety and security consultants to provide expert and tailored security and protection advice and training to grassroots organisations and activists and their international partners to help disrupt attacks and reprisals from highly-capable and motivated adversaries. You will have a deep knowledge of security risk management, security in violent environments, duty of care, protection strategies, shrinking civic space, and state and non-state adversaries. Sound like you?
Journalists in Haiti work under incredibly dangerous conditions marked by political instability and the pervasive threat of organised criminal gangs. To address these challenges, the Fondation Connaissance et Liberté (FOKAL) asked Open Briefing to provide safety and security training to a cohort of Haitian journalists. Through co-designed workshops, our team equipped the journalists with practical skills and fostered a new security mindset. The partnership of Open Briefing’s holistic security expertise and FOKAL's country knowledge and networks formed the perfect foundation from which to navigate Haiti's volatile security environment successfully.
Open Briefing is recruiting safety and security consultants to provide expert and tailored security and protection advice and training to grassroots organisations and activists and their international partners.
