around the world   populism   is on the rise,   but civil society   organisations   are responding   with innovation. 

This case shows how a civil society organisation can adapt digital tools and tactics to bring its primary constituents into organisational decision-making and governance, build a listening, learning and training community and grow its accountability and resilience.

This case shows how a civil society organisation can adapt communication tools and tactics to bring its primary constituents closer to what it does and strengthen its resilience in a populist context that challenges the legitimacy of its work and goals.

A network-wide initiative with civil society organisations around the world to generate new learnings and insights on the link between dynamic accountability and organisational resilience, and inform future sector practices.

Facilitating cross-border experimentation and learning communities of enterprising civic technologists can lower barriers to deploying and scaling technologies, increase reach and deepen the impact of their innovations.

This initiative borrows and implements concepts from corporate start-up culture — a campaign incubator and accelerator model — to both invest in and scale small ideas from local youth actors, and build their skillsets and agency.

An advocacy hub engaging new allies beyond the sector and operating as a network to mobilise the grassroots solidarity and support of civil society partners in response to politically-targeted discrimination and disinformation.

International civil society organisations (CSOs) can creatively reach new domestic audiences with positive messages about the value they deliver for them and society, even in a deeply divided context.

Using social media as a cost-effective way of testing new narratives and telling new stories — about what and who human rights are for — in different countries.

A multi-faceted initiative to counter hate speech and intolerance, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It builds from social listening and research to understand the root causes of hate speech and intolerance in order to design appropriate advocacy and training initiatives.

This project provides the structure and creative framework, tools and tactics to engage young people at scale with complex and sensitive content, and builds inclusive and plural dialogues and positive discourse online and offline.

This movement has creatively reframed public discourse by skillfully turning the spaces, tools and rhetoric used by populists on their heads to reach broad audiences through emotional, simple and accessible imagery, messages and concepts.

Focusing messaging on values, and avoiding reacting to and feeding populist narratives, can engage new audiences with a positive vision of the future as a constructive alternative to fear, crisis and division.

Experimentation with new tools, tactics and partnerships to engage and motivate new supporters for LGBT+ rights under attack in Brazil.

This project exhibits creative combinations of tools, tactics and novel approaches to scaling training in order to develop long-term changes in critical thinking skills among brand new public audiences (within a relatively short space of time).