Our Partnerships and Initiatives
The partnerships we build and the initiatives we launch respond to attacks on human rights, the unprecedented consequences of the climate crisis, and the rise of autocracies and illiberal ideologies that fracture the international order. We also work to reinforce multilateral cooperation, strengthen security governance, and restore accountability and justice mechanisms weakened by autocrats and illiberals. Our aim is to anticipate the consequences of these mutually reinforcing crises.
Progress & Change Partnerships works with non-profits, governmental and international institutions, and — when relevant — the private sector to design strategies, amplify voices, and identify opportunities that shape solutions in times of crisis and uncertainty.
Selected partnerships
Strategy Development of DCAF Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance
We facilitated DCAF's strategy development process, as the organisation developed its new strategic framework. We facilitated an internal and external consultation phase, based on which we supported the designing of the new strategy.
Status: Finalised (2023-2024)
Management of the Anar Mammadli Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan
We support several Azerbaijani human rights defenders and their organisations in developing their campaign towards the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference and we manag and coordinate their campaign to highlight human rights and political repression in the host-country of COP29.
Status: Ongoing
A partnership drawing from the expertise of our Action Lab.
Selection Process of New UNSR on Freedom of Association and Assembly
We led an informal coalition of NGOs working on the appointment of the new UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of association and peaceful assembly. Coordinated by ICNL, the coalition included prominent global and regional human rights organisations. It aimed to ensure civil society input into the UNSR nomination and selection process.
Status: Finalised (2023-2024)
A partnership that drew from the expertise of our Research Lab.
OUR PARTNERS AND CLIENTS
ArtofPeace Alliance
Coalition of NGOs forming the Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan
Coalition of NGOs working on the selection process of a new United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Assembly
DCAF Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance
ECNL European Center for Not-for-Profit Law
FIDU FedeFederazione Italiana Diritti Umani
GRASH Groupe de recherche-action sur la sécurité humaine (Burkina Faso
Coalition of NGOs forming the Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan
Coalition of NGOs working on the selection process of a new United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Assembly
DCAF Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance
ECNL European Center for Not-for-Profit Law
FIDU FedeFederazione Italiana Diritti Umani
GRASH Groupe de recherche-action sur la sécurité humaine (Burkina Faso
OUR INITIATIVE
Human Rights Compass
Following the (re)election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and the acceleration of the “global realignment” it provoked, we developed this initiative to convene human rights actors, lead real-time analysis, scan the horizon, and inform policy processes to build long-term resilience for the human rights movement
Status: Launched in March 2025, initiative ongoing.
