APC's new subgranting programme benefits 18 members in 2016

APC’s new subgranting programme awarded a total of USD 267,918 to support its members in achieving APC’s vision. Eighteen member organisations were recipients of 20 grants, 12 of which are project grants of up to USD 20,000 each, while the other eight are research and campaign grants of up to USD 5,000 each.

APC’s subgranting programme aims to enable members to contribute to changes towards achieving APC’s vision. APC offered two types of grants in 2016: project grants and small grants for research and campaigns.

The project grants are intended to contribute to the implementation of APC’s strategic plan at the national level, as well as to strengthen ongoing work of APC members that is linked to APC’s strategic priorities.

The small grants are for local campaigns that contribute to members’ advocacy work, and are also meant to enable members to participate in APC-wide campaigns.

Successful grants in 2016 cover 11 countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Uganda and Venezuela. Three other projects are regional in scope, one in Asia and two in Latin America.

This year’s successful grants include projects that tackle issues ranging from e-waste and sustainable development, to gender and surveillance, developing a regulatory framework to promote access, capacity building of civil society advocates to campaign for digital inclusion and affordable internet, and continuing APC members’ work in ending violence online.

What are the factors that inhibit women from accessing and making effective use of the internet in northern Uganda? How to get more women human rights defenders and other people concerned about human rights to really grasp the harmful effects of digital surveillance, and to act upon this knowledge in India? How to push internet rights and policy issues to reach a new audience that could bring in new energy and creativity in advocating for internet rights in Southeast Asia? How to strengthen the response capacity of vulnerable groups such as survivors of technology-based violence and LGTBI people in Colombia? How to raise awareness among internet users and the media about the impact of the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act on digital and human rights in Pakistan? What are the steps to be taken for Mexican organisations and communities to have the legal means to do what they see fit in terms of creating new telecommunications networks?

These are just some of the exciting questions raised by the projects granted by APC in 2016. All projects and activities are expected to be completed by the end of 2016. The 2017 project, campaign and research grants will be announced in December 2016.

APC’s subgranting programme is made possible through the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

Check out all the project grants for local implementation of APC’s strategic plan in 2016 here:

• Gendering surveillance and counter-surveillance

• E-waste recycling plant – Moving e-waste over the carpet

• Understanding and countering the digital marginalisation of women in northern Nigeria

• Southeast Asia Digital Rights Camp

• A study on the development of an electronic health data security policy

• Promotion of human rights on the internet and strengthening capacity for prevention of and response to technology-based violence

• Technology for countering gender-based abuse online

• Promoting the right to information through ICT in Uganda

• Women in the public domain

• APC promotes a GreeningIT sector in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Improving internet access through regulation of connecting cables marketing and production

• Knowledge management model based on technology platforms to strengthen the capacities of APC and its members in Latin America and the Caribbean

Check out all the small grants for research and campaign support in 2016 here:

• Sexing the Interwebs

• Internet rights and prevention of electronic crime in Pakistan

• Implementation of ITU-D Recommendation 19

• Internet rights in Argentina – Strengthening communities

• Implications of Uganda’s internet laws and policies on women’s internet rights

• Creation of a group of 20 ambassadors for faster internet in Cameroon

• Human rights and internet rights advocacy in Venezuela – Participation of civil society through ICT

• What matters: An audio-video conversation with experts/stakeholders on health and education rights in Bangladesh.