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INITIATIVE SANKOFA D\u2019AFRIQUE DE L\u2019OUEST (ISDAO)<\/h2>\n

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IN 2013, a group of funders and activists\u00a0came together to propose the creation of a bilingual fund managed and led by West African LGBTQ activists.<\/p>\n

The creation of such a fund would not only provide emerging leaders with the tools and spaces they need to build a more effective, inclusive movement for LGBTQ rights in West Africa, but also serve as a much-needed activist-owned platform for social change. It would provide international donors with a safe and trusted mechanism to invest strategically in the region and to ensure their resources were reaching the grassroots with accountability. It would introduce a mechanism through which local strategies could be shared and regional strategies developed collectively, both proactively and in response to crises. Finally, it would provide a point of coordination in a region of Africa where both organizing and donor engagement on LGBTQ rights remains uncoordinated, uneven, and linguistically divided.<\/p>\n

The proposed fund would serve not only to drive resources to LGBTQ organizations in the region but also provide emerging leaders with crucial capacity-building and networking support, a safe space for mutual learning and dialogue, and the opportunity to develop their leadership. The fund would place a particular emphasis on support for lesbian and bisexual women and for trans* and other queer-identified and gender-nonconforming West Africans, whose experiences and identities have remained marginalized or invisible within MSM\/HIV organizations. It would also give special attention to historically marginalized Francophone activists.<\/p>\n

VISIT ISDAO<\/strong> TO LEARN MORE<\/a><\/p>\n

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