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Our Mission

Vuka! has come together to help secure crucial short and long term victories to regain civic space and incubate new forms of resistance and organization. To fulfill its mission, Vuka! seeks to coordinate civil society responses to reclaim civic space and mobilize diverse civil society sectors through:

• 1Increasing the effectiveness of citizen and civil society responses to the global crackdown on civic space through information sharing, coordination and joint action.
• 2Increasing civil society’s resilience to attacks and threats by building solidarity across the sector.
• 3 Identifying, developing, and incubating creative approaches to human rights advocacy, new forms of resistance and organization. 
• 4 Developing targeted and harmonized approaches to combating civic space restrictions through coordination, joint action and information sharing.
• 5 Advancing and scaling innovative civic society tactics in civic space rapid response, litigation,  narratives, technology, thematic initiatives and research.