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The pan African advocacy support program BY SOLOMON WAMBUA

The pan African advocacy support program BY SOLOMON WAMBUA. UHAI EASHRI COC NETHERLANDS. Where we are. What the programme is. Two-year UHAI/COC Netherlands program. Sub component of the Bridging the G aps program. Focused on amplifying the voices of Eastern African LGBTI

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The pan African advocacy support program BY SOLOMON WAMBUA

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  1. The pan African advocacy support program BY SOLOMON WAMBUA UHAI EASHRI COC NETHERLANDS

  2. Where we are

  3. What the programme is • Two-yearUHAI/COC Netherlands program. • Sub component of the Bridging the Gaps program. • Focused on amplifying the voices of Eastern African LGBTI • grass root activists • To strategically advocate at national, and supra national • levels with more synergetic and sustainable outcomes. • 8 out of 51 activists selected in a rigorous process. • (2 Kenya, 2 Tanzania, 2 Burundi and 2 Uganda)

  4. REASON FOR THE PROGRAMME • To develop and sustainably strengthen strategic • engagement of regional and international mechanisms and • instruments in advocacy. • Throughbuilding a consolidated African LGBTI voice in • regional, continental and international spaces, by: • building a platform for jointamplified action and intervention. • and building the capacity of grass root activists to advocate • with more synergeticsustainable output.

  5. ACTIVITIES • Strategy meetings for orientation and induction, mapping • out landscape, identifying opportunities. Etc. • Attending sessions of the ACHPR and NGO forums. • Developing of country plans with broader regional and • continental ramifications. • Engaging key special rapporteurs and commissions.

  6. OUTCOMES • Formation of a pan African advocacy support group. • Identification of symbiotic linkages between national and continental level advocacy. • Strengthening the network of activists as a platform for: • - Sharing learnings and experiences • - Collective engagement in pushing the continental • agenda. • - Amplified and more coherent unified articulation of • LGBTI issues in East Africa within the continental • movement.

  7. CHALLENGES • Systemic societal and state endorsed homophobia. • Reluctance of state bodies to implement AU decisions • Insufficient follow up mechanisms on AU decisions • Lack of means of endorsing decisions of the AU. • Reluctanceof activists to engage regional and • continental mechanisms and procedures.

  8. CHALLENGES..Cont’d • Lack of coordination and collaboration in engagement • by activists • Limited support from mainstream Human rights • institutes and commissions. • Resource bottlenecks in sustaining regional and • continental level advocacy. • Competing interests-immediate national needs vs. long • term supra national action • Frustrating, slow results-requiring perseverance and • endurance

  9. WAY FORWARD • Continued advocacy at regional and supra national • spaces. • Focusing on inter session strategising as a component. • Focus on mainstreaming SOGI issues by: • Increasing engagement with other movements in • Africa. • Buildingalliances and partnerships.

  10. ASANTE SANA!!!

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