2020 ANNUAL REPORT | 45
SPECIAL INITIATIVE: LOVE ALLIANCE
In
December
2020,
we
announced
our
movement building and capacity strengthening.
participation in the Love Alliance, a 5-year project
In addition to ISDAO, consortium members
with the overall aim of ensuring that communities
include Aidsfonds, the Arab Foundations for
of LGBTQI persons, sex workers and persons
Freedoms and Equality (AFE), GALZ, the Global
who use drugs are healthy and empowered,
Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+),
through a more inclusive and people-centered
South African Network for People Using Drugs
approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health
(SANPUD), Sisonke, and UHAI EASHRI. This
and Rights (SRHR). The project is implemented
project is being undertaken and managed within
through funding and partnership with the Dutch
ISDAO as an Initiative and complements, but
Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of their Sexual
does not replace ISDAO’s existing and ongoing
and Reproductive Health and Rights Fund.
programmatic work to strengthen and support LGBTQI-led organizing across West Africa. The
The Love Alliance was developed and is
overall vision of ISDAO is to build a more just
being implemented by a bold consortium of
and inclusive West Africa, a vision with which this
organizations with a strong track record in
project closely aligns. Read more about the Love
advocacy,
Alliance initiative in our press release.
global
partnership
management,
participatory grantmaking, thought leadership,
