Aims and objectives

AIMS & OBJECTIVES

The NHRF aims to be a positive contributor to the support for organisations and individuals who are at risk due to the nature of their human rights work. In particular, our support is directed towards you as our grantee partners and your immediate networks, including all the staff in the organisations, volunteers, people, and other human rights defenders involved in the work as well as family members and the local communities that are involved in the work. We want to support your capacity to carry out meaningful and effective human rights work, especially in situations where security is a present and urgent concern.

With the objectives listed below, our work in this field aims to be both preventive and responsive. We aim to:

Ensure that our grantees have the resources to develop security plans and proper strategies to deal with security risks.

Help our grantees establish contact with relevant national and international actors working on the protection of human rights defenders and access their support

Ensure that the NHRF’s secretariat and local consultants have the capacity and network needed to respond to requests from our grantees regarding security issues. Increase our grantees’ awareness of security strategies’ and how to mitigate security risks

Increase our grantees’ knowledge of the normative framework and available support mechanisms for defenders at risk

Provide an outline of the roles of our grantees, local consultants and the NHRF’s secretariat regarding security issues and protection of human rights defenders.

These guidelines have been developed as part of our increased focus on security for grantees, for which we have set the following objectives: