Fighting environmental crime: Women leading the charge

Building community security in Somalia

From silence to partnership

SAARO’s work unfolds in a context where armed groups rely on extortion, intimidation, and territorial control to exert influence. In such settings, approaches rooted in community ownership become essential. This experience shows how locally driven collaboration can reduce harm, rebuild trust, and produce tangible improvements in safety.

How communities are building resilience in Haiti

From the ground up

As gang violence reshapes daily life in Haiti, communities are building resilience through safe spaces, skills training, and local networks to counter violence and gang recruitment.

Disappearances by organized crime

A practical resource for individuals, families and communities affected by disappearances linked to organized crime, and for those supporting them.

Stories from the Journalism Fellowship

Investigating illicit economies and instability in West Africa

Extremist groups in West Africa are increasingly consolidating territorial control and expanding their operations, often financed through illicit economies. By documenting these dynamics, journalists help communities and policymakers understand how illicit markets shape insecurity and social instability.

Lessons of Resilience: Experiences, challenges, and insights from the ground

Join us to reflect on local action, explore innovative responses, and highlight how communities shape safer futures despite challenges. Interpretation available / Interpretación disponible / Interprétation disponible

Awakening social consciousness and the cry for justice

Art and Resilience

Artistic expression and social protest have long served as powerful ways for people to convey their emotions, beliefs and values. People turn to art to reflect their inner worlds and often to highlight the injustices they experience in their communities.

Resilience in action

This policy brief draws on the five-year experience of the Resilience Fund from 2019 to 2024 to make a compelling case for recognizing and empowering civil society as a critical front-line actor in the fight against organized crime.

Resilience Fund

Fishy business in Turkana

Illegal fishing in Lake Turkana fuels environmental crime and exploitation in Kalokol, Kenya. A community-led initiative is challenging this illicit trade and protecting biodiversity and livelihoods.

Historias desde la pesca

Memoria y verdad

En las costas de Sinaloa, el proyecto «Memoria y Verdad: Historias desde la Pesca» rescata del olvido las historias de resiliencia comunitaria, historias inspiradoras de quienes, desde el anonimato, enfrentan los retos del crimen organizado.

Resilience Fund

The Education for Resilience Initiative

The Education for Resilience initiative by One African Child builds capacity, promotes gender equality and equips youth with the tools to challenge systemic barriers in Malete, Nigeria.

Defending nature together

Local voices, global impact

Now that we’ve highlighted the critical nature crimes threatening our ecosystems, we turn to how communities are stepping up to protect their environments. By connecting them with support networks, we are fostering local responses to combat these crimes.

Resilience Fellowship 2024

Batucadas Populares

As part of the 2024 Resilience Fellowship, Ecuadorian Xavier Moreira works to strengthen the Batucadas Populares, where through this medium, they express messages of peace and resistance to the violence affecting the working-class sectors of Guayaquil.