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Our specialised practice areas for our advisory, research, and training services.

PRACTICE AREAS.

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Est. 2017. JHB – CPT – NBO.

The practice areas in which we implement your change by a collective of public interest lawyers, researchers, strategists, and technologists.

Practice areas

18 September 2024

New Resource: Training material to support the elimination of FGM

21 August 2024

African Union: ACHPR adopts resolution to undertake a study on digital violence against women in Africa

PUBLIC LAW & POLICY

Developing laws and policies that empower people, promote human rights, and enable a sustainable and resilient future.

STRATEGY & FUNDRAISING

Supporting civil society organisations and social enterprises with registration, strategy, structuring, and fundraising.

AI & EMERGENT TECHNOLOGY IN AFRICA

Safeguarding and promoting human rights in the development of artificial intelligence and emergent technologies.

EQUALITY & INCLUSION

Working to foster substantive equality, meaningful inclusion, and the best interests of children.

INTERNATIONAL LAW & DEVELOPMENT

Promoting multilateralism, development, participation, and activism at the regional and international levels.

STRATEGIC & TEST CASE LITIGATION

Enabling changes in laws, policies, and administrative systems which are beneficial to the public, in association with Power & Associates Inc. *

INFORMATION RIGHTS & DATA GOVERNANCE

Protecting and promoting privacy, free speech, and access to information on- and offline.

CLIMATE JUSTICE & SUSTAINABILITY

Building climate-resilience through digital transformation and climate and environmental justice.

WEB DEVELOPMENT & HOSTING

Assisting civil society organisations and social enterprises to tell their story, enhance their reach, and get connected.

PRACTICE AREAS.

International Law & Development
Promoting multilateralism, development, participation, and activism at the regional and international levels, including in the areas of:

Enabling Democratic Participation

Strengthening Civil Society & Activism

Institution Building & Development

Labour Migration Governance
Public Law & Policy
Developing laws and policies that empower people, promote human rights, and enable a sustainable and resilient future, including in the areas of:

The Rule of Law & Institution Building

Enabling Democratic Participation

Media Sustainability

Electoral Integrity

Constitutional Literacy
Information Rights & Data Governance
Protecting and promoting privacy, free speech, and access to information on- and offline, including in the areas of:

Internet Governance

Free Expression & Privacy Online

Data Protection

Disabling Disinformation

Online Harms Reduction

EdTech

Open Data & Access to Knowledge

Digital Equality
AI & Emergent Technology
Safeguarding and promoting human rights in the development of artificial intelligence and emergent technologies, including in the areas of:

Artificial Intelligence Governance

Algorithmic Bias

The Rights-Based Impacts of Emergent Technologies

Copyright Online
Equality & Inclusion
Working to foster substantive equality, meaningful inclusion, and the best interests of children, including the areas of:

Inclusive Policy

Education

The Best Interests of Children

Online Harms Reduction

Sexual Violence & Harassment
Climate Justice & Sustainability (CJS)
Building climate-resilience through digital transformation and climate and environmental justice, including in the areas of:

Sustainable Technologies & Human Rights

Just Transitions & Distributive Justice

Climate Data & Open Governance

Climate Change & Human Movement

Corporate Vigilance & Value Chains

Mitigation, Adaptation & Resilience (MARs)

Recent Advisory Projects
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.

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.
Recent Research Projects
Preparing research on access to climate change-related knowledge and information in South Africa in partnership with the African Climate Foundation.

Developing a civil society accreditation mechanism and national chapter framework for the Economic, Social & Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) of the African Union to enhance civil society participation 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.
Recent Training Projects
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.

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DEVELOPING A SERIES OF TOOLKITS ON AI GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA FOR THE THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION

Research | Training | AI & Emergent Technology

PREPARING A FUNDRAISING LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CIVIL LIBERTIES ORGANISATIONS

Fundraising Support

PREPARING RESEARCH ON ACCESS TO CLIMATE CHANGE-RELATED KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION in partnership with THE AFRICAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION

Research | Climate Justice & Sustainbility

COMPELLING ACCESS TO SOUTH AFRICA’s COVID-19 VACCINE PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS FOR THE HEALTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE

Strategic & Test Case Litigation

Developing web-based resources and providing IT and systems integration support to the Constitution hill trust

Web Development | IT Services

Assisting UNICEF with research on Gender-transformative approaches for civil society organisations

Research | Equality & Inclusion