SPECIAL INITIATIVE

LOVE ALLIANCE

In December 2020, we announced our participation in the Love Alliance, a 5-year project with the overall aim of ensuring that communities of LGBTQI persons, sex workers and persons who use drugs are healthy and empowered, through a more inclusive and people-centered approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). The project is implemented through funding and partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Fund.

The Love Alliance was developed and is being implemented by a bold consortium of organizations with a strong track record in advocacy, global partnership management, participatory grantmaking, thought leadership, movement building and capacity strengthening. In addition to ISDAO, consortium members include Aidsfonds, the Arab Foundations for Freedoms and Equality (AFE), GALZ, the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), South African Network for People Using Drugs (SANPUD), Sisonke, and UHAI EASHRI. This project is being undertaken and managed within ISDAO as an Initiative and complements, but does not replace ISDAO’s existing and ongoing programmatic work to strengthen and support LGBTQI-led organizing across West Africa. The overall vision of ISDAO is to build a more just and inclusive West Africa, a vision with which this project closely aligns. Read more about the Love Alliance initiative in our press release.