Grant

Front Line Defenders Protection Grants (up to EUR 7,500 for human rights defenders at risk)

Front Line Defenders

Open. No closing date published. No fee to apply Last checked 5 Oct

At a glance

Deadline: Open. No closing date published.
Fee: No fee to apply
Who may apply: You are a human rights defender, or an organisation of defenders, at risk because of your peaceful human rights work
Not already in exile, and not funded elsewhere for the same purpose; no retrospective costs, salaries, rent, vehicles or armed guards
You file a short report with original receipts when the work is done
Where: Apply online through a secure form, from any country; applications in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and five other languages

Rapid grants of up to EUR 7,500 from Front Line Defenders for human rights defenders at risk, paying for physical or digital security, legal fees, medical costs or support for the family of a jailed defender.

The facts

What you get: Up to EUR 7,500, usually not the full budget
Where: Apply online through a secure form, from any country; applications in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and five other languages
How long: No closing date published; every applicant gets a written answer

Where you stand

This one is free. There is no fee to apply, and nobody should ask you for money at any point.

What they ask for

You are a human rights defender, or an organisation of defenders, at risk because of your peaceful human rights work
Not already in exile, and not funded elsewhere for the same purpose; no retrospective costs, salaries, rent, vehicles or armed guards
You file a short report with original receipts when the work is done

Get ready to apply

Built only from what this listing states.

A short application, by our reading.

1. What to get ready

It asks for something outside the usual documents; read it below.

In their words: “The secure online application form with your budget and a safe way to contact you”

2. Dates

No closing date is stated.
Openings with no closing date can close once they have enough people, so sooner is safer. Our advice
On the date, the listing says: No closing date is published. The page has a live secure application link.

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The download is a small text file. You can read it later without data. It also lists each condition they set, so you can tick yourself against them. WhatsApp sends the same list to you, or to somebody helping you.

No CV yet? Make a plain one from your answers. Nothing you type is kept.

Tips for applying for a grant

General advice from us, the same for every grant. It is not what this organisation says; that is above.

Say what the money is for, exactly, and how much of it goes where. A simple budget in a table is enough.
Describe what you have done so far, with numbers you can prove: customers, people served, sales, months running.
Check whether they need your business registered, and in which country.
Answer their questions in their order. Reviewers score each one.

If there is an interview or a test

Expect questions on your numbers. Know them without reading them.
Be ready to say what happens to the project if you do not get the grant.

All our tips and messages to copy. Practise answering, with nothing kept. Received an offer? Check whether it is real, then read before you say yes.

How to apply

You apply on Front Line Defenders's own website, not here. We never send an application for anybody and we never ask you for anything to pass on. Check their page for anything not shown here.

Go to the application

How we checked this

This was opened and verified at Front Line Defenders's own website on 5 October 2026: it was real, still open, and open to people from African countries. If anything here is wrong, tell us.