If you are working on democracy, human rights, equality, social justice or land rights and climate, you know that the crackdown on civic space and freedoms under the guise of security is impacting your work.
This moment and this challenge demand a bolder, more ambitious response from the funding community.
While we continue to channel critical support to activists who are being harassed and persecuted, we need more collaboration between funders willing to take risks and test new approaches.
We have to do upstream work and not just rush in when activists are already being threatened and arrested.
Civic Futures is commissioning research, monitoring trends and supporting the development of new resistance and transformation strategies to protect and expand civic space.
We are actively seeking new partners from across sectors and geographies, to build a strategic, global response to counter the overreach and harms caused by the misuse of counter-terrorism policies.
We always welcome new people, from every part of philanthropy and civil society, to our events and collaborations.
Come and collaborate with us to keep civic space open.
Source, Shutterstock, Ibrahim14, Malang city at town, east java indonesia. The papuan protesters at interview, taken on July 2020.