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Introducing the Better Preparedness Initiative: Shaping the future of funding, from response to long-term resilience
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Closing Civic Space
Human Rights Defenders
Sep 23, 2025
Better Preparedness is a growing community of funders working to ensure that human rights movements and civil society organizations receive the resources they need during times of crisis and in heavily restricted civic spaces.
It brings together funders from the human rights, peace and security, and humanitarian sectors with social movements to drive significant
resources to those on the frontlines
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