Pride Alliance Uganda is seeking financial support to facilitate the implementation of
Justice and Rights of LGBTQ Community activism in Uganda with the aim of improving Human
Rights and ending violence on LGBT people in Uganda. Since there is a lack of LGBT rights
awareness in Uganda and also the law is against homosexuality the project will work towards
coordination of advocacy at national level, organize events, lobby government departments and make
the LGBT community in Uganda aware about their human rights. The proposed project aims to address
LGBT rights and sensitize the communities in Uganda about LGBT people and their rights. The project
would develop advocacy initiatives and strengthen the LGBTQ movement in Uganda through
coordination and sensitization. The proposed project is a comprehensive project to support the LGBT
communities in Uganda.
Problems/Challenges faced by LGBTQ
There are many other issues that impact the health and well-being of LGBT individuals aside
from health disparities. Getting to know one’s patients as individuals who experience social,
structural, and interpersonal challenges can be helpful for understanding the impact these can
have on their health.
Sexual and gender minority youth face particular challenges; in addition to navigating the
developmental issues faced by all adolescents, they must establish a sense of their own sexual and
gender identity, decide when and to whom to “come out”, and often confront social ostracism
and family rejection. In severe cases, family rejection may take the form of expelling the child
from the home; this has contributed to a higher burden of homelessness among LGBT youth.37
However, it is important to note that many LGBT youth, as well as adults, show remarkable re-
salience to life challenges. Research has shown that family acceptance of LGBT adolescents and
young adults leads to greater self-esteem, social support, and better health outcomes, as well as
protection against substance abuse, depression, and suicidal ideation.38
LGBT adults often enter into committed romantic relationships, much like their heterosexual
counterparts. Since June 2015, same-sex couples across the country have had the legal right to
marry. In addition to granting same-sex couples the same material and legal benefits available to
others, access to marriage is shown to be associated with better health outcomes39 and with
greater feelings of social inclusion among LGBT individuals, whether or not they are married.40
Many LGBT adults raise children or have a desire to do so. In the 2002 National Survey of Family
Growth, 52% of gay men and 41% of lesbian women expressed a desire to have children.41
approximately 19% of gay and bisexual men and 49% of lesbian and bisexual women report
having
had a child. 42 the pathways to becoming a parent for lesbian and gay couples vary. In some
cases, children being raised by same-sex couples are the products of previous, opposite-sex
relationships, 43 although this number may be decreasing as individuals come out at younger
ages. Otherwise, fostering and adoption, as well as donor insemination and surrogacy, provide
potential pathways to child-rearing.
Beyond marriage and child-rearing, LGBT individuals face unique challenges as they age. To-
day’s LGBT seniors grew up in periods of less social acceptance of LGBT people, and thus may
harbor greater fears of stigma and discrimination than their younger counterparts. Such fears
may become particularly acute when LGBT elders are no longer able to live independently and
must move into communal housing arrangements or avail themselves of social services,
prompt-ING some to newly conceal their sexual orientation after years of living openly. 44
Because they
are less likely to have children, LGBT elders may have fewer options for family support in the
face of illness and disability. Older adulthood may also be more economically precarious for
partnered but unmarried LGBT individuals, as they do not have access to spousal, survival, or
death benefits through Social Security, and thus may be impoverished by the death of a
partner. These challenges notwithstanding, many LGBT persons demonstrate resilience as they
age.
Indeed, a majority of respondents in one survey of aging LGBT individuals felt that their LGBT
status had prepared them for aging by fostering inner strength.
B.2. Project Goal
The goal of this project is to promote the rights on LGBTQ and ending Violence to keep the lights of
lgbtq and how they are. Empowerment of 148 vulnerable youths in schools (Female=74; Male=74)
through support with income generating activities as well as well promoting the prevention of HIV,
GBV, and other forms of injustice against LGBTQ people in Mukungwe Sub County, Masaka District.
B.3. Project Beneficiaries
The direct/primary beneficiaries for the project will be 148 vulnerable children and youths
(Female=74; Male=74) 18 to 25years LGBTQ living in Mukungwe Sub County and are either have
other forms of vulnerability, such as persons with disabilities, those living with HIV, school drop-outs,
and those who don’t have any form of employment or income sources. The secondary beneficiaries
will be community members who practice the activism of LGBT and will benefit from sensitization on
HIV prevention, GBV prevention, and Human Rights protection. This is premised on the fact that the
primary benefits live within a community, which must be empowered for the primary beneficiaries to
enjoy their rights of socioeconomic empowerment and inclusion.
B.4 Proposed Project Activities and Implementation
This project is to be implemented over a period of years. Implementation will begin with an inception
meeting with the United Nation and technical leaders in order to give them information about the
Challenges and Problems that is violating the rights of people to keep them as they are and also to
ensure that they play a key role in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project
Matter. The other project activities will include:1) selection of the primary beneficiaries, 2) sensitizing
them about recruiting new Members to LGBTQ Community, 3) supporting them to select LGBTQ of
their interest but have the potential of getting them out of poverty, 4) procurement of the selected
LGBTQ, 5) distribution of the IGAs, 6) post LGBTQ distribution follow-up and supervision, 7) evaluation
of project impact, and 8) community sensitization meetings on HIV and GBV prevention, and on
LGBTQ protection.
