Addis Ababa - African GLBTI Alliance Mission Report

Overall Goal: Promoting sexual health and rights, social justice and access to quality HIV/AIDS care and prevention among GLBTI people through resource mobilization in Africa Specific Objectives:  To interact and meet African GLBTI representative and establish tangible working relationship through exchange and conference forums  To build the momenta tum of the African GLBTI Alliance and her operational mission in Africa  Establish exiting gaps among African GLBTI organizations and seek to learn the achievable goals  Establish capacity building efforts and funding for the African GLBTI Alliance  Seek the up-coming African conference on sexual health among GLBTI people in Africa and pursue to promote the African GLBTI Alliance  Promote the Pan African GLBTI umbrella body through my presentation on sexuality in Africa  Integrate the African GLBTI Alliance to be co-conveners of the 5th African conference on sexual health and rights which will be held in Egypt in 2012 Mission Strategies: Information gathering & distribution of research findings among t h e African GLBTI representative Around forty GLBTI representative and NGO's in Africa were mobilized and briefed about the GLBTI alliance both informal and formal through workshops and poster presentations Alliance building & cooperation with key African players on sexual health and rights The mission mobilized the African Federation on Sexual health and rights which is managed by Dr. Esiet who is also the director of Action Health Inc operated AHI in Lagos Nigeria. The African GLBTI Alliance will be sending fellows to attend the SLDF each year from different country and a brief introduction about the alliance to be sent to IPPF (ASAP) Research development & documentation Despite the fact that many research have been undertaken very few have directly involved GLBTI, hence the Alliance will seek to