The International PRIDE Centre

The International PRIDE Centre: Protection, Rights, Inclusion in Displacement and Emergencies provides legal & policy analysis, preparedness, & programming tools for aid workers, NGOs, and emergency response agencies to ensure inclusive programming for LGBTQI+ persons in emergency, humanitarian, and development settings. The PRIDE Centre focuses on countries experiencing acute and protracted crises, in which the space for LGBTQI+ rights and expression has become increasingly restricted..

SOGIE communities are almost entirely excluded from emergency response planning and programming. In these volatile settings, LGBTQI+ needs frequently go ignored and unmet. Intensifying their vulnerability, many of these responses take place in countries with restrictive and violent anti-LGBTQI+ laws and policies. Even in jurisdictions where these identities are not criminalized, LGBTQI+ needs are overlooked – even excluded – by NGOs, UN Agencies and other key actors.