CIVICUS Digital Action Lab Cohort 3 – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2026

Applications are open for the CIVICUS Digital Action Lab Cohort 3. The Digital Action Lab Cohort 3 is an initiative designed to help civil society organisations to develop, take a look at, and scale progressive digital options that strengthen civic area, inclusive democracy, and citizen engagement.

Through this name, they intention to establish organisations with robust concepts and dedication to utilizing digital instruments for social impression. Selected members will obtain technical help, peer studying alternatives, and funding to implement their proposed tasks.

Benefits

• Participants obtain fingers-on help to strengthen their digital abilities and develop sensible methods for advocacy, participation, and accountability. This consists of steerage on utilizing digital instruments safely and successfully in difficult civic and political environments.
• Participants be part of a trusted peer studying area the place civil society actors share experiences, talk about widespread challenges, and study from each other. Through facilitated exchanges, organisations achieve new views, sensible concepts, and context-based mostly options grounded in actual-world apply.
• Participants are supported to develop and take a look at new digital options and approaches inside their very own work. The Lab encourages studying by doing, permitting organisations to adapt, enhance, and refine their initiatives based mostly on what works of their particular contexts.
• The Lab supplies monetary help to assist organisations take part totally within the programme and to implement the digital initiatives they develop. This ensures that concepts generated by the Lab could be translated into concrete motion.
• Participants are supported to doc their approaches, successes, and classes discovered by case research, infographics, movies, and different accessible codecs. These data merchandise are shared by the Digital Democracy Initiative data hub and CIVICUS networks, supporting wider efforts to strengthen civic and democratic freedoms.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be based mostly in OECD DAC ODA-eligible international locations
• Preference for organisations in obstructed or repressed civic area contexts
• Local places of work of Global North-based organisations are usually not eligible
• Civil society organisations (formal or casual), networks, actions, and coalitions
• Individual activists formally affiliated with a civil society organisation
• Priority to underrepresented and marginalised actors, together with ladies, youth, LGBTQI+, Indigenous Peoples, and grassroots teams
• Active work on democracy and/or civic area points
• Some expertise utilizing digital instruments in advocacy, organising, or service supply
• Ability to handle grant funding and commit workers time for the 9-month programme
• Ability to work and submit deliverables in English

Application

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For extra data, go to CIVICUS Digital Action Lab Cohort 3.