Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience

This report covers enabling‑environment developments from January to September 2025, with occasional references to key events that occurred prior to January 2025 where relevant. Throughout 2025, Sudan remained engulfed in a...

Panamá se define por sus profundos contrastes. Aunque su producto interior bruto (PIB) supera el promedio regional, como lo muestran las estimaciones de la Cepal, seguirá creciendo gracias a su economía de servicios, el Canal de...

Trinidad and Tobago maintains one of the Caribbean’s more robust democratic and institutional frameworks, yet its enabling environment for civil society remains uneven. The country’s 1976 Constitution enshrines freedoms of...

Bangladesh is undergoing a complex political transition following the collapse of long-standing rule of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League-led government in August 2024. After parliamentary elections in...

At the end of September 2025, Madagascar entered a period of political turmoil that led to a political transition. The events began with the arrest of three city councillors on 19 September 2025, in front of the Senate building in...

Colombia continues to face pervasive and escalating violence that shows no sign of abating, with profound consequences for the enabling environment and the conditions necessary for democratic participation. Illegal armed groups...

Israel is a democratic state with an active and vibrant civil society. It is currently experiencing a continuous narrowing of democratic space including gradual erosion of the freedom of action of civil society organisations and...

Burundi’s civic space remains severely restricted, shaped by a decade-long trajectory of political repression and systemic impunity since the 2015 crisis triggered by former President Pierre Nkurunziza’s controversial third-term...

The Regional Teachers Initiative for Africa (RTIA) Facility supports teacher development also in crisis contexts: please check these factsheets for more details on the six projects working on these themes.