The Programming
Pride Africa is a long-term, pan-African programme dedicated to amplifying the voices, visibility, rights, and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ communities across the continent.
To shift the narrative of the African continent from one of crisis to one of light and unity, where all LGBTQIA+ people live freely with dignity and equality.
To build a bridge of solidarity that connects grassroots mobilizers, professionals, and stakeholders to drive the collective upliftment and shared resources of African LGBTQIA+ communities.
Grounded in a shared vision, mission, and guiding principles, the programme advances queer liberation through advocacy, knowledge-sharing, capacity-building, and movement-building. Pride Africa creates inclusive platforms and safer spaces that celebrate queer diversity while actively resisting marginalisation, violence, and exclusion. This work is anchored in solidarity, care, and community power, ensuring that all interventions remain politically grounded, values-led, and accountable to the communities they serve.
Operating year-round, Pride Africa’s activities are intentionally designed and implemented in alignment with its vision, mission, and principles, enabling sustained impact beyond one-off events or moments. The programme mobilises resources, strengthens regional and continental partnerships, supports effective governance and coordination, and fosters political alignment and shared learning across movements.
Strategy
FADA
FADA is an organisation founded in 2015 with the primary aim of contributing towards the promotion and protection of women’s rights, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. Duly registered in Rwanda as a Legal Personality recognised by the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), FADA serves as an advocacy platform coordinating strategic actions and supporting systems that fights for the rights of women and create a bridge for Lesbian Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LBTQ) persons and Female Sex
Workers (FSWs) in Rwanda. FADA exists to advocate for the rights of sexual and gender minorities, create safe spaces for dialogue to educate and raise awareness on the rights of our core constituencies and promote access to health and better livelihoods for FSWs
and LBTQ+ persons.FADA seeks to contribute to the realisation of the human rights, health rights and social- economic justice of LBTQ+ persons and FSWs through three inter-related mutually reinforcing Program Areas:
- Voice and Visibility
- Health and Human Rights
- Social Economic Empowerment, Livelihoods and Climate Justice.
African Alliance
The African Alliance works closely with a wide range of non-profit organisations in a network that, while rooted in the local, is connected to and visible in national, regional and global actions. They seek to advance rights-based, critical and developmental programming to address the needs of underserved communities across Africa by working collectively to ensure that affected communities are informed about their rights; have access to dignified health care and the agency and access to hold duty bearers to account for the non-realisation of these rights.
African Alliance’s work is underpinned by a thoughtful, inclusive and consultative practice that, importantly, resonates with our values.
From Struggle to Strength: Our Strategic Pillars
We translate lived experience into practical, scalable solutions through five key pillars of advocacy.