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Effective Local Approaches In T he Africa LGBTI Context

Effective Local Approaches In T he Africa LGBTI Context . Michael Ighodaro ICARH. Introduction. In Nigeria difference between LGBTI organizations and funders approaches to working with community to reach their target populations.

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Effective Local Approaches In T he Africa LGBTI Context

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  1. Effective Local Approaches In The Africa LGBTI Context Michael Ighodaro ICARH

  2. Introduction In Nigeria difference between LGBTI organizations and funders approaches to working with community to reach their target populations. The challenge is how to be effective in reaching the target populations, especially with the HIV positive LGBTI community and the “hardtoreach” older LGBT population.

  3. Effective Local Approaches • COMMUNITY DIALOGUE • COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION • PEER EDUATION

  4. Effective Local Approaches • OUTREACHEVENTS • SPECIALEVENTS • MSMHIVPOSITIVESUPPORTGROUP

  5. Effective Local Approaches • SENSITIZATIONOF HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS • MSM CLINICS • COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP

  6. Effective Local Approaches • PALLIATIVECARETEAM • SKILLS ACQUISITION CENTERS • LGBTI COMMUNITY CENTRES

  7. CHALLENGES • Need for comprehensive MSM+ programming • Limited funding to local LGBTI organizations in Africa for implementation • Emphasis on numbers and no measurement of quality of services delivered • Need to address stigma& discrimination of MSM+ within the LGBTI community • Laws against LGBT

  8. Summary • Engage local LGBT community for all programs involving them • More emphasis on programs for MSM+ • Need to address both human rights and health • Identify and address psycho-social health needs of HIV positive LGBT

  9. Thank-you! MichealIghodaro alliance.ighodaro@gmail.com

  10. “Effective” Local Approaches to Working with LGBT/GMT The Namibia Experience

  11. From hate speech and violent rhetoric to organising as a movement • Establishment of trp as a voice for LGBT in Namibia • From advocacy and human rights to public health and HIV • Demise of trp and community mandate for ORN • Starting from scratch again- re-establishing an organisation History of the LGBT movement in Namibia

  12. PV as a ASO with interest in local advocacy and movement building- Tusano to Tonata • Partnership and hosting agreement to support the LGBT movement- CSO to CSO support • Autonomy, organisational integrity and conflict resolution Organisational development in the context of dwindling resources

  13. Dwindling donor support and increasing governmental financing of programmes- meaning for marginalised and stigmatised groups • HIV funding solely for MSM; impact on wider human rights discourse; using MSM HIV funding to address structural challenges such as stigma, discrimination and rights • Exclusion of LBT groups from programming and discourse on human rights; need to collect data on social vulnerability and HIV risk e.g. SGBV Upper middle income status and funding of LGBT organisations

  14. LGBT identified board of trustees • LGBT identified staff and building a cadre of interns at central office • Community based structures; LGBT identified community facilitators as peer educators, safe spaces for counselling, access to commodities and referral linkages to care • Collecting programme data and human rights violations in communities; an ear on the ground • Extending reach (esp. the hardest to reach) through using ‘snowballing’ as a programming method. Community involvement in organisational development and programming; what is LGBT led?

  15. Completing the continuum of care; social support and safe spaces • MSM living with HIV; treatment and care in socially competent and non-stigmatising settings • Combination prevention- going beyond behaviour change and integrating biomedical and structural interventions (SFH programme) • Addressing poverty, stigma and violence (SGBV) Going beyond behaviour change communication

  16. Inclusion in national policies and programmes • Current NSF and implications • Global Fund CCM • Ministry of Health and Social Services TWGs • IBBSS Task Force • NANGOF Sector representation; gender health and human rights • Regional, continental and global advocacy efforts • Working with multilateral partners and embassies to create a dialogue and keep the discourse alive Advocating for an enabling environment

  17. Confidentiality in programming; using unique identifier codes • From quantity to quality; missing the stories behind the figures • Challenges in collecting violations; LGBT distrust in the criminal justice system • Research; community involvement from training, planning, implementation and report dissemination • Research advocacy? Monitoring, evaluation and Research

  18. Thank you

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