Civic Watch is a community-based organization registered in Cameroon as a non-profit youth-led group. Its main goal is community mobilisation to counter hateful rhetoric online and offline young people. It addresses questions of incitement to violence, tolerance and peacebuilding in relation to social media. Civic Watch offers a unique portal of relevance and significance in the quest for solutions to conflict situations by promoting social cohesion and growth locally. Believing in the power that young people have and the impact they create. Civic Watch has been networking with similar community-based organisations for an inclusive strategy for peace.

Civic Watch acts as an intermediary organisation for schools, civic debate spaces or separate public/private facilities for making, learning, exploring questions of participation and accountability of locally elected officials. With a space open to young people and the media, it intersects with community mobilisation for positive change in the society.

Civic Watch is funded primarily through project grants, currently through the German Federal Foreign Office funding for the #defyhatenow programme in Cameroon and additional special project or activity grants from International Organisations such as UNESCO or private foundations/corporations, including Facebook Inc.