Safe Online Grant

Safe Online, part of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children led by UNICEF, is launching a USD 5 Million Global Open Call for Proposals. This initiative aims to enhance internet safety for children by funding innovative solutions that address online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA). The call emphasizes collaborative efforts across sectors, focusing on under-served areas and the needs of vulnerable children and young people, while establishing key investment pillars for future projects.

Background
Safe Online is part of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, hosted by UNICEF and funded by government and philanthropic donors, working in partnership with a wide range of civil society, academic and policymaking institutions committed to building a safer internet and ending violence against children.
Safe Online is excited to announce a new USD 5 Million Global Open Call for Proposals to continue laying the groundwork for a safe internet globally in line with the latest data and evidence from the field, technology developments and relevant frameworks addressing digital harms to children.
With this new Open Call, Safe Online continues investing in a ‘whole system’ approach for maximum impact by supporting the work across multiple sectors in a coordinated manner to advance solutions to address online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) and related forms of harms to children. The investment approach builds on the vast amount of knowledge generated through Safe Online’s investments, as well as the latest data and evidence in the field and wider digital harms ecosystem.
This new Open Call promotes innovative approaches and seeks proposals addressing under-served areas, the specific needs of survivors and of the most vulnerable groups of children and young people. This will include funding the development of gender sensitive (including boys) and inclusive programmes, solutions, policies, services, regulation, research, and technology tools.
With this new USD 5 Million Global Open Call for Proposals, Safe Online will establish three interconnected standing investment pillars under which it will source projects in the years to come. The three investment pillars are: Networks & Systems, Research & Data and Technology Tools.