STRATEGIC PLAN 2022-2026
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OUR HERSTORY ……………………………………. 3
ABOUT US …………………………………………….. 5
THEMATIC AREAS …………………………………. 8
SITUATION ANALYSIS ………………………….. 10
GUIDE TO CHANGE: STRATEGIC AREAS, LINES OF ACTION, AND INDICATORS …… 12
INSTITUTIONAL OBJECTIVES TO GUIDE STRATEGIC AREAS OF CHANGE ………….. 19
OUR HERSTORY
Global Women’s Health, Rights and Empowerment Initiative (GWHREI), is a queer sex-worker-led nonprofit that came into existence in 2014 as a result of the vulnerability, stigma and discrimination experienced by sex workers in Nigeria.
Over the past 7 years, we have made incredible progress. We have provided effective treatments and approaches to HIV prevention in our context of programmatic efforts, which has resulted in fewer new HIV diagnosis and fewer AIDS death.
We have a clear understanding of how the broader social determinants of health -poverty, housing instability, food insecurity, mental health issues, addictions, violence, abuse, stigma, and social and structural inequalities-put sex workers at risks, threaten their health and further exacerbate their lived experiences.
We also have a very clear understanding of how the identities of the community we work with can intersect with their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, age as well as other forms of identities, and how these intersections can impact and shape their experiences and life outcomes.
Marginalized groups, including LBT+ women, sex workers, people who use drugs, and those experiencing homelessness, were disproportionately impacted by Covid-19 regulations that exposed them to further discrimination and human rights abuses.
This has led to the evolution of our programmatic efforts in the last two years to enable us work at the various intersections of broader Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) issues, LBT+ women rights, sex workers rights, drug users’ rights. and the rights of other marginalized/minority persons. Our work has also gone beyond Benue state. We are also actively working in Gombe state.
Our feminist approach provides guidance for developing and institutionalizing processes and practices to support the implementation of our programmatic efforts in promoting women’s rights to bodily autonomy in all their diversity, and to reduce poverty, inequality, and build prosperity.