Giada Negri is Research and Advocacy Coordinator at the European Civic Forum (ECF), where she leads the work on civic space. The ECF is a pan-European network of over 110 associations and NGOs across 29 European countries: big federations of associations deeply rooted in local constituencies, national platforms of NGOs uniting hundreds of thousands of NGOs, human rights advocacy, and campaigning organisations, but also smaller groups working at community level or engaging with the public on local issues.