The objectives of OUT’s Advocacy & Mainstreaming programme are as follows:
  1. To advocate and lobby for LGBT affirming policy reform, development and implementation.

  2. To transform prejudiced beliefs, attitudes and behaviours in the areas of sexuality and gender social relations, through training and public education.

  3. To conduct campaigns and build alliances within the LGBT sector, with other rights based social movements and sectors, and individuals, in order to promote non-discrimination/ equality/equity and social justice.

  4. To work with and organise LGBT people, in order to build their consciousness of HR and the capacity (both individually and collectively) and the capacity to claim and celebrate our rights and lives, through community organisation and mobilisation.

  5. To document and research the lives, experiences and struggles of LGBT people to support advocacy efforts, to facilitate social change (discrimination/access to services) and to make our needs and interests visible.

More specifically, the AMP’s projects aim to:
  1. Build LGBT people’s consciousness of human rights and the capacity (both individually and collectively) to claim our rights through community organization and mobilization

  2. Increase LGBT leadership, visibility, representation and integrating LGBT concerns within a community

  3. Change community attitudes with regards to gender, sexuality and human rights

  4. Contribute to health care, religion, local government, education and criminal justice being responsive to LGBT needs and interests

  5. Ensure the implementation of rights based laws and policies

AMP projects take place across a range of diverse areas including the education sector (schools and the Department of Education); public sector service providers and NGO’s; victim empowerment structures; policy and law reform processes.

Through AMP, OUT is an active member in the following alliances and campaigns: 777 Alliance to End Hate; the 1in9 Campaign; the Joint Working Group; the Sexual Offences Working Group; the Coalition for African Lesbians and the Reproductive Rights Alliance.

For more information on AMP contact: programmes@out.org.za or mainstreaming@out.org.za