Protection Grants (Front Line Defenders)

Protection Grants (Front Line Defenders) is sponsored by Front Line Defenders. Front Line Defenders offers Protection Grants to improve the security and protection of human rights defenders and their organizations.

Grant Application | Front Line Defenders Encrypted Online Protection Grant Application Form You can submit your Protection Grant application online. Just answer the questions below in the box provided. When you have answered all the questions press submit and the application will be sent directly to Front Line Defenders.

Ensuring the privacy and security of your data is our priority and this form is fully encrypted. We ask that you include contact details for us to reach you to discuss the application further and we would like to make sure that we are communicating in the safest way possible.

If you feel that contact with Front Line Defenders may put you at risk we suggest that at minimum you use a secure computer, safe internet connection and open a separate, new email account and provide this address in the application instead. For further information see: Keep your online communication private (https://securityinabox. org/en/communication/private-communication/) and Communicating with Others (https://ssd.

eff. org/en/module/communicating-others).

All obligatory fields below are marked with * If you are applying on behalf of someone else, please provide your name: Year of birth of human rights defender at risk: Gender queer or gender non-conforming Name of your organisation / movement / community / media entity / union / collective: British Indian Ocean Territory Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) French Southern Territories Heard Island and McDonald Islands Holy See (Vatican City State) Iran, Islamic Republic of Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Lao People's Democratic Republic Micronesia, Federated States of Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Tanzania, United Republic of United States Minor Outlying Islands In which city, town or village are you based?

Phone number (include country code) or Instant messaging username/number (include name of the service for example Signal): How do we contact you securely? * Above Instant messaging / Phone Please provide the following information on your human rights work 1. Please provide a description of your human rights work / activism.

Please also specify what particular human rights activities, if any, you have been engaged in during the past year. * 2. Are you affiliated with other networks or coalitions?

Please provide the following information on your security risks 1. Please give a full description of the security risks you are facing. How are the security risks linked to your human rights work?

Please include as much detail as possible, including the dates of the incidents, the sources of threat, etc. * 2. How have security risks you are facing impacted your ability to carry out your human rights activities and/or your wellbeing and/or that of your organisation / collective? * 3.

What protection measures do you propose to respond to these risks? How will these measures help to reduce the risks and help you to manage your security situation? If these measures are part of a wider protection strategy, please explain.

* 4. How many people would be directly supported or protected by this grant? Are they family members, HRD colleagues, etc.?

* 5. How many people would indirectly benefit from this grant? Are they family members, HRD colleagues, community members, etc.?

Please provide the following information on the budget for your protection measures 1. What is the currency used in your budget? * 2.

Please give a precise breakdown of costs for each requested measure. (Note that Front Line Defenders may ask to see various quotes and / or may propose alternative options) * Description * Cost per month / item of measure Total cost of measure* Please provide the following information to help us verify your application 1. Have you been in contact with anyone from Front Line Defenders before?

2. How did you hear about Front Line Defenders? * 3.

Have you applied for or received any similar grant from other organisations? If yes, please provide further details; Who did you apply to or from whom did you receive a grant? When did you apply for the grant or when did you receive it?

What amount did you receive and for what measures? * 4. In order for us to assess this application, please give contact details (name, job title, organisation, phone, email) for at least two referees who are well known within the human rights community in your country or internationally, and who know the work of the individual / organisation requiring support.

* Please be aware that Front Line Defenders may reach out to peer protection organisations and trusted contacts regarding your application for verification purposes. 5. Do you consider yourself to be a person living with disability?

If yes, please use the following field if you would like to share with us any more information on your disability: Applications can also be sent by email to grants@frontlinedefenders.

org Please be aware that our emails to you might go into your spam folder, either at the beginning of our correspondece with you or at a later stage in our email exchange, so it is important to regularly check your spam folder and label our email conversation as “not spam”. Enter the following 4 letters: in field: Case of the letters does not matter. If you cannot read the letters, reload the page.

All the information that you have submitted is sent through our secure, (SSL) encrypted channel. To increase security, all information is additionally encrypted using PGP/GPG key.