PROTEGE QV

What PROTEGE QV does

PROTEGE QV (Promotion des Technologies Garantes de l'Environnement et de la Qualité de Vie) is a Cameroonian non-profit civil society association founded in 1995 and headquartered in the Biyem-Assi district of Yaoundé. It operates a portfolio of programs and tools spanning digital rights monitoring, ICT for Development (ICT4D), urban agriculture and food security, environmental protection, and women's leadership, serving beneficiary communities in Cameroon and, increasingly, francophone Africa. Operationally, it is a small organization (9 staff plus 22 volunteers) that delivers free training workshops, awareness campaigns, conferences, and digital publications directly to communities, schools, journalists, and civil society organizations.

Its core outputs include research and policy tools — the African Internet Rights and Freedoms Index (IADLI) covering 6 francophone countries, the Disinformation Tracker and LEXOTA platform built with international consortiums, the Multi Media Resource Kit (MMRK) for radio professionals, advocacy toolkits, and white papers such as the 2026 'Regards croisés sur les droits numériques au Cameroun.' It also runs hands-on programs including the Savoirs et Saveurs school farm at Lycée Technique d'Ebolowa, urban agriculture workshops, improved cooking-stove initiatives, rehabilitation of school multimedia rooms (e.g., École Publique de Biyem-Assi), and a 2026 community library (PROTEGE QV Lecture).

The organization's business model is grant-funded: revenues come from international donor grants and subsidies (APC, OIF, Internet Society, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Enabel, Urgent Action Fund Africa, Pollicy, CIPESA, US Embassy, Alternatives Canada), member contributions, donations, and modest service revenues. All services, training, and publications are provided free of charge; there is no commercial pricing. Distribution is via direct delivery, partner schools and community radio stations (Radio Flambeau Banka, TBC Biyemassi), its website, and international forums including IGF, FIFAfrica, and DRIF.

Name

PROTEGE QV

Legal name

PROTEGE QV (Promotion des Technologies Garantes de l'Environnement et de la Qualité de Vie)

Website

https://protegeqv.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

PROTEGE QV is a Yaoundé-based Cameroonian non-profit founded in 1995 that delivers free programs, training, and research publications in digital rights, ICT for development, urban agriculture, and women's leadership, serving communities, schools, journalists, and civil society across Cameroon and francophone Africa.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Non-Governmental Organization Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Human Rights Organizations (813311), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Development & ICT4D / GovTech Technical Assistance (BPADAEAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Civil Society Strengthening & Civic Space (BPADAGAD), Safeguarding, Accountability & Compliance (ESG, Gender/GBV, Do No Harm) (BPADAEAM), NGO/Nonprofit Education Programs & Service Delivery (EDADALAC)

Keywords

• Digital rights advocacy
• Ict for development
• Urban agriculture training
• Environmental protection programs
• Civil society research

Headquarters

HQ city

Yaoundé

HQ country

Cameroon

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Grants and Subsidies: PROTEGE QV relies on grants and subsidies from international partner organizations (APC, OIF, Internet Society, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Urgent Action Fund Africa, Enabel, etc.) to fund its programs and projects.
2. Member Contributions: Capital from motivated human resources including team, volunteers, and trainees through membership contributions.
3. Service Revenues: Products from services sold, including training services and potentially consulting on ICT, environment, and digital rights topics.
4. Donations: Donations received from supporters, partners, and community members to support organizational activities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

PROTEGE QV is a Cameroonian non-profit civil society organization that delivers community programs at the intersection of digital rights, ICT for development (ICT4D), urban agriculture, and environmental protection. Its offerings include free training workshops, policy research and publications (such as the African Internet Rights Index and digital rights white papers), community-based projects (urban gardens, school farm-cantines, improved cooking stoves), digital literacy and digital security training for underserved communities, and advocacy toolkits targeting journalists, women leaders, schools, and civil society actors in Cameroon and francophone Africa.

Product overview

PROTEGE QV (Promotion des Technologies Garantes de l'Environnement et de la Qualité de Vie) is a Cameroonian NGO founded in 1995. Rather than a single software product, PROTEGE QV operates a portfolio of programs, publications, and tools centered on digital rights, ICT for development, and community well-being. Key offerings include research publications on digital rights (the IADLI index, the DADLI white paper, the gendered disinformation policy brief), the Multi Media Resource Kit for radio professionals, advocacy toolkits, and the ICT4D programme. The organization also operates service-oriented projects including the PROTEGE QV Lecture Library, the Savoirs et Saveurs school farm project, and community radio support. Its digital rights tools include the IADLI (an African Internet Rights Index), participation in the LEXOTA platform, and the Disinformation Tracker. Programs span digital rights advocacy, urban agriculture, environmental protection, and local leadership development, with geographic focus on Cameroon and broader engagement across francophone Africa.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PROTEGE QV Lecture: A library initiative by PROTEGE QV that provides a knowledge space for reading, learning and personal development. Now operational and accessible at protegeqvlecture.org

Products and services

• PROTEGE QV Lecture Library
• Indice Africain des Droits et Libertés de l'Internet (IADLI)
• Multi Media Resource Kit (MMRK)
• Savoirs et Saveurs: Ferme-Cantine du Lycée Technique d'Ebolowa
• Urban Agriculture Programme
• Regards croisés sur les droits numériques au Cameroun (White Paper)
• Gendered Disinformation Policy Brief
• Digi-Gardien Training Workshop (Devenez un Digi-Gardien au Cameroun)
• Boîte à outils plaidoyer internet (Advocacy Toolkit for Better Internet)
• Foyer et Fumoir Améliorés (Improved Cooking Stoves)
• ICT4D Programme (Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication pour le Développement)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 2,000 students benefiting from newly equipped multimedia rooms at École Publique de Biyemassi SIC
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

22 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Association for Progressive Communications (APC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAPC is PROTEGE QV's primary international partner, providing strategic and technical support across multiple programs including digital rights monitoring, internet governance, e-waste management, digital security training for women journalists, and ICT4D initiatives. APC has supported the African Internet Rights Declaration work, the IADLI index, FIFAfrica participation, and the Future of Work project.
• Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOIF provides technical and financial support for the 'Savoirs et Saveurs: Ferme-Cantine du Lycée Technique d'Ebolowa' project, which combines agricultural training, school feeding, and food security for students.
• Internet Society (ISOC) – Spain ChaptercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with ISOC Spain and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia to deploy two multimedia rooms at École Publique de Biyemassi SIC in Yaoundé, providing connectivity and digital learning infrastructure.
• PollicycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPROTEGE QV collaborates with Pollicy on the 'Future of Work' project, extended to 7 African countries (Cameroon, Kenya, DRC, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique), focused on digital safety and resilience for women professionals in media.
• Alternatives CanadamajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartners on urban agriculture programs and international youth internship placements through the Programme de Stages Internationaux pour Jeunes (PSJI), hosting Canadian interns at PROTEGE QV.
• CIPESA (Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on the Disinformation Tracker initiative and participation in the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica), with CIPESA supporting PROTEGE QV's attendance and regional engagement.
• Commonwealth SecretariatmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupported the development of the Multi Media Resource Kit (MMRK) for radio professionals, organized into eight modules on micro-enterprise management.
• Free Software FoundationminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPROTEGE QV organizes Software Freedom Day celebrations, recognized as the best organizer globally in 2010 by the Free Software Foundation.
• African Union CommissionmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPROTEGE QV participates in African Union forums and contributed to PRIDA project discussions on internet governance at the continental level.
• Enabel (Belgian Development Agency)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnabel collaborated with PROTEGE QV on developing a 'Digital Rights Manual for Beginners' and sessions on closing the gender digital gap at FIFAfrica events.
• Friedrich Ebert StiftungminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPROTEGE QV contributed to a white paper on the situation of women in Cameroon, addressing the education of girls and women's leadership development.
• Global Partners DigitalmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership through the Disinformation Tracker consortium (with Article 19, CIPESA, University of Pretoria Center for Human Rights, and PROTEGE QV) to track and analyze disinformation laws across Sub-Saharan Africa.
• UNESCOminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPROTEGE QV participates in UNESCO sessions on internet governance and digital rights, contributing to discussions on internet freedom and safety in Africa.
• Article 19majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the Disinformation Tracker consortium and joint session at FIFAfrica on internet shutdowns and freedom of expression in Africa.
• Centre for Human Rights, University of PretoriamajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership through the Disinformation Tracker initiative, contributing academic research and legal analysis on disinformation responses in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (AfDec)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPROTEGE QV is a member of the AfDec coalition and coordinated the IADLI study across 6 francophone African countries, contributing research on digital rights in Africa.
• JONCTIONminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint session partner at FIFAfrica24 on internet shutdowns and freedom of expression in Francophone Africa.
• Association wa MbedmiminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint session partner at FIFAfrica24 on internet shutdowns and freedom of expression in Francophone Africa.
• PARADIGM NigeriaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPROTEGE QV participated in the 12th DRIF25 forum organized by PARADIGM in Lusaka, Zambia, presenting sessions on gender equality online as a human right.
• Internet Society Cameroon ChapterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on internet governance and digital rights awareness in Cameroon, sharing calls for participation and digital security training opportunities.
• Digital Rights Cameroon NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition of civil society organizations working on digital rights in Cameroon, with PROTEGE QV participating in joint initiatives and awareness campaigns.
• Cities Coalition for Digital RightsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPROTEGE QV participates in the inaugural International Digital Rights Days, a global celebration of human rights defenders and local governments working on ethical, inclusive digital advocacy.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights10 records

Broad incumbents

• Access Now: Access Now is a global digital-rights organization known for its #KeepItOn campaign against internet shutdowns — a campaign PROTEGE QV participates in via APC. It is a broad-incumbent peer operating in the same advocacy space but at much larger global scale and with broader geographic reach.
• Association for Progressive Communications (APC): APC is PROTEGE QV's primary international partner and a global network of civil-society organizations working on ICTs for social justice. APC functions as both a peer and a network umbrella, providing strategic and financial support across virtually all of PROTEGE QV's digital-rights and ICT4D programs.
• ARTICLE 19: ARTICLE 19 is a global freedom-of-expression organization with regional programs across Sub-Saharan Africa. It co-developed the LEXOTA platform and Disinformation Tracker with PROTEGE QV, operates at much larger scale, and shares thematic focus on internet shutdowns and disinformation legislation.

Direct peers

• Pollicy: Pollicy is an Africa-focused civic-tech and digital-rights organization that partnered with PROTEGE QV on the Future of Work project across 7 African countries. It works on data governance, digital safety for women, and inclusive technology policy — directly overlapping with PROTEGE QV's gendered disinformation and digital-security training work.
• Paradigm Initiative: Paradigm Initiative is a pan-African digital-rights and inclusion organization that organizes DRIF and runs programs on digital literacy, internet freedom, and ICT-enabled entrepreneurship. PROTEGE QV participated in DRIF25 organized by Paradigm in Zambia, indicating shared advocacy and training networks across francophone and anglophone Africa.
• JONCTION: JONCTION is a francophone-African civil-society organization focused on digital rights and freedom of expression, which jointly organized a FIFAfrica24 session with PROTEGE QV on internet shutdowns in Francophone Africa. It is a peer operating in the same language community and thematic niche.
• Global Partners Digital: Global Partners Digital is a UK-based organization working on digital rights and internet governance, and is a co-developer of the LEXOTA platform and Disinformation Tracker consortium alongside PROTEGE QV. It shares the same advocacy and policy-research methodology focused on digital rights and freedom of expression.
• Digital Rights Cameroon Network: The Digital Rights Cameroon Network is a coalition of Cameroonian civil-society organizations working on digital rights, in which PROTEGE QV is an active participant. It is a directly comparable domestic peer addressing the same policy issues within the same jurisdiction.
• CIPESA (Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa): CIPESA is the most directly comparable African digital-rights and ICT4D civil-society organization, focused on promoting internet rights, ICT policy, and freedom of expression in East and Southern Africa. PROTEGE QV and CIPESA are explicitly co-developers of the LEXOTA and Disinformation Tracker tools, sharing advocacy methodology, thematic focus, and consortium-based operating model.

Emerging players

• Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria: The University of Pretoria's Centre for Human Rights is an academic partner in the Disinformation Tracker consortium and contributes legal and policy analysis on digital rights in Africa — sharing the same research and consortium-driven operating model as PROTEGE QV, but from an academic rather than CSO base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/protegeqv
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/protege-qv

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Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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