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Objectives :

Enhanced Digital Safety for Civil Society and Media 

Results :

Increased capacity of CSOs, media outlets, and individuals in both preventative and responsive digital safety approaches. 

Activity  :

Basic digital safety training by DefendDefenders for vulnerable communities. 

Outcomes :

At-risk communities with new and improved knowledge and skills for identifying, responding and circumventing cyber threats. 


Safesisters ........

Digital Security Incident Response (DSIR) is the effort to quickly identify a digital attack, minimize its effects, contain damage, and remediate the cause to reduce the risk of future incidents.

The major aim of the training is to create a network and community of digital security incident responders in the Region.



In this course, we shall review digital safety material and learn about how to conduct trainings for other people. We shall look at facilitation styles, session planning and we shall practice delivering a training to an audience.

Digital Security Training for Individual Human Right Defenders (HRDs) is aimed at building and enhancing capacity of individual HRDs with digital Security skills that creates awareness and safety among individual HRDs as they go about their day to day work and defending of Human Rights in today's digital error.

Security Auditing Framework and Evaluation Template for Advocacy Groups  (SAFETAG) - is a professional audit framework that adapts traditional penetration testing and risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to smaller non-profit organizations based or operating in the developing world.

SAFETAG Auditors training conducted by DefendDefenders is a program/initiative aimed at building capacity for the junior and/or new community auditors with a technical background in Information Technology who are working with or have interest in working with non-profit civil rights organisations.  The participants are trained on how to conduct digital security vulnerability assessment of the non-profit organisations around their communities operating in the challenging environment.


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By prioritizing the use of effective project management methods and tools, organizations can proactively and continuously improve their workflows to avoid overspend and repeated mistakes. During these fast-moving times, those who rise to the top rely on solid project management to remain efficient and productive.

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