We build partnerships to uphold
The challenges of our moment are real and compounding: continued attacks on fundamental freedoms and civil rights, the accelerating consequences of the climate crisis, autocrats and populists fracturing the international order. The foundations of the rules-based international system are under strain.
Progress & Change Partnerships builds partnerships with environmnetal and human rights defenders, civil society and reform-minded institutions who are pushing back. Together, we adapt and innovate. We hold governments and institutions to their commitments, despite limited resources and real pressure on civil society.
We see ourselves as one link in a larger chain. We stand firm on the values that hold that chain together. Our role is to help our partners' work gain ground and last.
- Strategy Lab: We work with partners to shape their strategies, including through periods of transition..
- Action Lab: We design advocacy and outreach campaigns, and manage them when our partners need it.
- Research Lab: We identify and track the political and institutional openings that can advance the causes we share with our partners.
Compassion & Humility
Our work is guided by compassion and humility. Compassion shapes how we engage with the people and causes we serve. Humility shapes how we listen, how we learn, and how we measure success. We hold ourselves accountable to both.
Ambition & Sensitivity
We hold ourselves to high standards and pursue real impact. We pair that ambition with attention to context: the political setting our partners work in, the risks they carry and the people our work is meant to serve. We seek change that is sustainable and accountable to them.
Collaboration & Amplification
Collaboration is the foundation of everything we do. Every partner is unique, and our role begins with listening. We bring our experience and expertise to our partners' work, amplify their efforts, and commit fully to the shared journey. You & us, together.
Latest News
COP31 in Türkiye:
Another Story of Repression
Four of the last five climate summits went to countries rated Not Free, and COP32 goes to Ethiopia. In Antalya, delegates have agreed to stay out of Türkiye’s ‘internal affairs’. Climate justice depends on people who can protest, report and go to court, and closing that space serves the oil, gas and mining industries.
Human Rights Compass
9th Policy Brief
The world is rearming at speed. Defending Rights, Rethinking Security examines the human rights consequences of a rearmament that is progressing faster than the safeguards intended to govern it, at a time of global rupture.
Notes from the Faultline
2nd Dispatch
At the heart of this Dispatch is the idea that multilateralism is hollow without international human rights law and human rights depend on multilateralism. It presents an overview of what states of intermediary power can do to mobilise the world for human rights and thereby protect the international rules-based order.