Our Resilience Builds Community Resilience: Transformative Approaches for SGM Inclusion

This learning brief highlights transformative approaches to promoting sexual and gender minority (SGM) inclusion in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects. Co-authored by LGBTIQ+ humanitarian and development organisation Edge Effect, this learning brief provides examples from Water for Women projects implemented by civil society organisation partners during the course of the Fund. It is intended to support WASH organisations in expanding SGM inclusion and equity in climate-resilient WASH interventions.  

Who is this learning brief for?

This learning brief is designed as a resource for WASH organisations, programmers, practitioners and researchers, and for rights holder organisations (RHOs), in particular those representing SGM communities and stakeholders.

What does it include?

• Climate-resilient WASH and SGM realities
• Individual and structural challenges faced by SGM people
• Transformative and strengths-based solutions for SGM inclusion
• Reciprocal learning and competency-building approaches
• Awareness raising through participatory action research
• Lessons learnt and insights from Water for Women projects and SGM RHOs