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Partners to date have not seemed to focus on LGBTIQ+, Key Population-related research, and therefore there is a dearth of resources and funding specifically focusing on LGBTIQ+ and Key Population communities. PHI’s intention is to ensure that partners and other partners begin to prioritize a wide array of research focusing on LGBTIQ+ and Key Population communities in the region and that the research PHI produces becomes a factor of that encouragement.

PHI has a focus on building the research capacities of LGBTIQ+ and Key population organizations across the region. This includes direct one-on-one basic research training to the inclusion of LGBTIQ+ and Key Population members in ongoing research that PHI engages in.

To date significant research in the region pertaining to LGBTIQ+ and Key Population communities has been health based with a major focus on MSM/HIV. The devastating impact of the HIV pandemic on MSM communities has necessitated this particular focus. Unfortunately, other areas that affect LGBTIQ+ and Key Population communities, including but not limited to violence, social economic realities, and education have not been part of a research agenda for the region to date. PHI locates itself as an entity that solely focuses on LGBTIQ+ and Key Population communities and prioritizes holistic knowledge production of the realities affecting the diverse LGBTIQ+ and Key Population communities in the region. The intention is to ensure LGBTIQ+ and Key Population led organizations are provided with pertinent and actionable information that can inform their advocacy either at the local/grassroots level all the way to the national engagements that some of them have already established.

PHI has been successful at actualizing its vision. In the past few years, PHI has engaged with LGBTIQ+ and Key Population communities to provide much needed capacity and strategic support to these movements. This has included but not limited to supporting HOYMAS (the largest male sex worker organization in the East African region) to map out together with the National GBMSM network (GHPN) to develop a National HIV Prevention Framework for GBMSM communities and develop a national HIV prevention strategy for MSM communities. PHI has also engaged and supported strategic thinking and planning process for a myriad of LGBTIQ+ and Key population organizations in East Africa including the African Sex Worker Alliance (ASWA), the Ugandan based East African Visual Artists (EAVA) and UHAI the regional indigenous donor of LGBTIQ+ and sex worker organizing. PHI is an advisor to the Kenyan Key Population Consortium that provides the Kenyan government with input on policy and service delivery strategies affecting KPs across the republic.

Our Leadership Goal is " Towards strengthened, resilient, robust, politically informed and involved LGBTIQ+ and Sex Worker Movements in East Africa". This will be carried out in the development and running, of a Leadership Academy