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Deputy Director at The Baring Foundation

The new Global Resources Report has landed! This is the most comprehensive record of funding for LGBTI communities worldwide and a decade of data makes this report the most comprehensive and important to date. The headline is really heartening – a 56% increase in funding in 2021-22 for LGBTI issues in the Global South and East. A testament to the work of activists around the globe making the case for their work and achieving change. More needs to be done (global funding for LGBTI rights still represents only 39c in every $100 of foundation spending), but progress is being made. Like all reports, the devil is in the detail – this increase in funding is not equitable and growth is not always guaranteed. 61% of all funding continues to focus on the Global North and 60 countries saw reductions in the amount of funding they received. Strikingly, Southern Africa has seen almost no increase in the funding it receives since 2013. Just accounting for inflation, this is a significant real terms reduction in funding over the decade. Lots more to learn from this report and thanks to the amazing team behind it! Ezra Berkley Nepon, Jay Postic, David Scamell, Matthew Hart, Global Philanthropy Project, Inc.

2021–2022 Global Resources Report: Government & Philanthropic Support for LGBTI Communities

2021–2022 Global Resources Report: Government & Philanthropic Support for LGBTI Communities

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