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Rights-based advisory, research, and training services that advance human rights and enable meaningful participation.

CREATE. THE. FUTURE.

Est. 2017. JHB – CPT – NBO.

Diversified, rights-based advisory, research, and training services to implement your change by a collective of public interest lawyers, researchers, strategists, and technologists.

ADVISORY SERVICES.

    • Undertaking an assessment of CSOs partnered with UNICEF to support a gender transformational approach to ending child marriage.
    • Crafting an advocacy campaign in partnership with the Mozilla Foundation for the ratification of the Malabo Convention.
    • Providing rights-based strategic guidance and policy analysis and reporting on key African jurisdictions to an international technology company.
    • Supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) by facilitating consultations and public participation on the revised Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation.

33%

Percentage of annual profits allocated to pro bono and public interest projects.

200+27

Number of successfully completed advisory projects in 27 jurisdictions since 2017.

4000+

Number of collective pro bono and public interest hours in 2023.

RESEARCH SERVICES.

    • Supporting the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) and community media organisations with a series of written submissions to the Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry initiated by South Africa’s Competition Commission.
    • Preparing research on access to climate change-related knowledge and information in South Africa in partnership with the African Climate Foundation.
    • Developing a diaspora engagement framework for the Economic, Social & Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) of the African Union (AU) to enhance the ability of civil society based in the Diaspora to participate in the work of the AU.
    • Drafting a comprehensive comparative analysis for the Open Government Partnership (OGP) on the content of African data protection laws.

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TRAINING SERVICES.

    • Developing a series of toolkits on AI Governance in Africa for the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
    • Preparing a protest resilience toolkit for CIVICUS for leaders of social movements to share practical opportunities, challenges, and strategies to support the sustainability of contemporary protest movements.
    • Providing research support to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the development of a toolkit for judiciaries in Africa on legal standards on freedom of expression.