Blandina Lintang, Digital Defender Partnership
Esther, Urgent Action Fund
Joana, Dignity (via videoconferencing)
Article 19 (tbc)

The session aims to acknowledge many initiatives of rapid response fund to support resilience on protecting digital rights amidst the rise of digital authoritarianism practices in Asia region and the challenges in current practices.This session will dive into current challenges to distribute the fund in certain countries and explore more the issue of harmonizing requirement of donor project reporting and the needs of beneficiaries’ accountability. Speakers will share their views on how to tackle the administration issues in the context of decolonizing accountability in grant mechanisms. They will explore the challenges and opportunities this approach brings to project implementation