Promoting economic empowerment through enhanced LGBTI entrepreneurship and
business development.
This evaluation focuses on the two GDAs of the GDP, which take a multi-pronged
approach to addressing the violence, discrimination, and exclusion faced by LGBTI
people in developing countries.
GDA 1: The Global LGBTI Human Rights Partnership (2012-2018) is a project that
aims to build the capacity of LGBTI leaders and CSOs through grants, trainings, and
research. The lead implementing partner is the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
(Astraea), which conducted research, administered small grants, led strategic
communications/training initiatives. The LGBTQ Victory Institute (Victory Institute) and
the Williams Institute also served as implementing partners, implementing projects
focused on democratic participation and research, respectively. RFSL, an implementing
partner of Sida, ran a parallel program that carefully coordinated with this part of the
GDP.2