The Early Warning Mechanism documents changes and shed light on critical trends in the enabling environment for civil society. At a core level, the mechanism works by information-gathering work focusing on events that impact or could impact the enabling environment. The EU SEE consortium will then be tasked with compiling, verifying, and assessing these events to trigger alerts indicating changes to the enabling environment. Alerts can be triggered by a single high-impact event or a series of events suggesting a downward or upward trend in the enabling environment.