Emergency security grants for human rights organizations in the MENA region

Description

1) Objective

Minority Rights Group is accepting applications for Emergency Security Grants from human rights organizations in Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco and Tunisia. These grants are designed to address the security needs of human rights organizations representing minorities and marginalized groups that face digital or physical threats or security risks due to their human rights work within a shrinking civic space. The grants aim to mitigate the impacts of various security breaches, crackdowns, harassments, and attacks of legal, physical, or digital nature and prevent their recurrence.

The urgency of the risk that requires intervention must be clear. Risks can include security risks emanating from digital breaches, arrests and prosecutions of human rights activists due to their human rights work, verbal or physical threats against human rights activists, harassment of activists or their family members, attacks against the infrastructure of activists, etc.

2) Eligibility

For your application to be considered, the applicant must meet the following requirements: (1) Be a human rights or minority rights organization; (2) Be a not-for-profit civil society organization (official registration is not necessary); (3) Be based in one of the project countries: Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia; (4) Have recently experienced an elevated or imminent security threat.

3) Location

Actions must take place in Lebanon, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia.

4) Budget

The amount available for each project is between €1,000–€3,000, and the duration of the action may last up to a maximum of six months.

5) Application

The online form on their website can be submitted anytime. Please provide in the application form a secure means of communication including but not limited to, encrypted message apps (WhatsApp/Signal) or encrypted emails (Tutanota/ ProtonMail) to facilitate communication.