Advocacy Campaigns
We support civil society organizations in delivering advocacy campaigns to advance good governance and expose human rights abuses.
INANNA
Understanding Democracy,
Empowering Change.
Inanna is an independent and non-partisan research organisation which focuses on investigating the challenges, processes, and outcomes associated with building and strengthening democratic systems and improving human rights. We work across the Global South, with a specific focus on transitioning democracies in Africa and the Middle East.
Who Are We?
We are a consortium of former journalists, development practitioners, and researchers who share a commitment to understanding challenges to democracy and exposing human rights abuses. Ultimately, we aspire to support the development of strong, inclusive, fair, and resilient democracies.
We leverage our expertise and relationships to conduct research into the conditions and factors which undermine democratic processes.
We support independent media and civil society organisations actively campaigning for improvements to democratic norms.
We receive funding from international organisations, private foundations, and national governments.
Our approach combines on-the-ground data collection and multi-source data analysis.
Advisory & Training
We deliver training courses for media, investigative journalists, and civil society organisations. This focuses issues such as responding to disinformation during elections and cyber threats to independent journalists.
Independent Research
We conduct independent research, working with in-country partners, to better understand challenges to democratic systems and human rights abuses.
Grants
We provide grant-based funding and support to independent media and civil society organizations who research human rights abuses and threats to democracy in authoritarian contexts.
Case Study
Workshops on election-related disinformation
Our workshops brought together journalists and CSOs to discuss resilient information environments and safeguarding democratic integrity. The goals were to refine verification processes, build resilience in hyper-polarized political environments and inform local civic education initiatives.
We provided training to equip partners with the skills to identify, counter and mitigate the spread of false information before, after and during election cycles.
Beneficiaries learned to distinguish between misinformation, disinformation and malinformation, while gaining awareness of emerging threats such as AI-generated fakes and coordinated inauthentic behaviour.
Training utilized fact-checking and verification toolkits to trace the origins of claims and debunk them effectively.
Contact Us
We always like to hear from prospective partners that share our goals
