Promoting Adaptive Resilience for Civil Society Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa.
ARC adapts the SecDev Foundation’s proven CyberSTAR framework. This guides organizations through a comprehensive process of tackling digital vulnerabilities. It encompasses everything from organizational audit through technical remediation and staff training. And it makes the digital safety universe accessible by framing it around six points of a star: risks, identity, passwords, conversations, devices and data. CyberSTAR was first developed in the early 2010s, and refined through work with at-risk CSOs across Eurasia, Southeast Asia and the MENA region.
ARC’s approach is practical, trauma-informed and tailored to local realities. It builds on the Foundation’s experience in organizational capacity-building in the MENA region. And by deliberately fostering local champions, we’re supporting durable long-term progress—for CSOs and for the people they serve.
Supporting adaptive resilience among small, at-risk civil society organizations.