From the ground up

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.

Understanding nature crimes to fight back

Destroying our planet, fueling instability

Nature crimes involve illegal activities that exploit and destroy natural resources, severely impacting ecosystems, communities, and global stability. By understanding these crimes and their impact, we can take action to protect the environment and communities.

Somos Comunidad

Atlas of Resilience

This Atlas of Resilience is the summary of a collective effort, in which communities, institutions and the vibrant and collaborative spirit of the territories and their people have made it possible for community resilience to persist. In these real and heartfelt stories is the experience and evidence of hundreds of people who, from the mountains and savannas of the Caribbean and the valleys of the Pacific to the roads of Catatumbo and the mountains of Cauca– continue to risk it all to defend their livelihoods.