Catalyst of Change
Supporting a vibrant civil society in Europe
Knowledge Bank
NHC: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Policy
ECNL: How Can I Use EU Law to Protect My Civic Space?
NHC: Developing a Project Proposal and Integrating a Gender Mainstreaming Perspective
ECNL: Safeguarding Spaces for Action: Balancing Lobby Laws and The Right to Participation
ECNL Resources
Digital Spaces
A Framework for AI systems that Serve the Communities they Affect
A Guide to Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments (FRIA) under the EU AI Law
Guide to Civil Society and Journalist Joint Efforts to Protect Digital Rights.
Monitoring and Early Warning
The Monitoring Action for Civic Space (MACS) project has created a monitoring tool to capture both progress and decline in civic freedoms in the EU, and provide actionable policy recommendations for decision-makers. 9 European organisations, including the NHC and ECNL, created this tool to draw the attention of EU institutions, states and civil society to civic space issues that matter.
We have included the overall methodology and the Bulgarian and Romanian country reports below.
Civil Disobedience
Resilience and the Future of Civil Societies
- Podcast episode – Rethinking resilience
- Strategic Simulations with Civil Society Organisations – Civil society futures: What to expect and how to prepare for it
- Paper – The Future of Civil Societies
- Study – How different security frameworks are combined and misused to restrict and censor activists and civil society
