ANNUAL MOVEMENT
REFLECTION WORKSHOP

Each edition of the workshop brings together LGBTQI+ organizations, movement leaders, human rights defenders, and cross-movement allies from across the region for three days of structured and open dialogue — in French and English, across linguistic and cultural silos that too often keep the movement fragmented.

Over the course of the convening, participants engage in a political landscape and movement resilience analysis to assess the state of LGBTQI+ rights across the region and develop shared frameworks for resistance.

Case study presentations lift up innovative advocacy models and campaigns from within the movement — legal wins, community infrastructure, creative resistance — that can be adapted and replicated.

A strategic narrative and counter-disinformation workshop equips participants to dismantle harmful myths, respond to digital threats, and build community-driven narratives that center queer West African lives on their own terms.

A regional strategy co-design session produces a collective advocacy roadmap — joint campaigns, legal interventions, policy engagement opportunities — that participants carry back into their national contexts.

The workshop closes with a celebration — a deliberate, joyful affirmation of LGBTQI+ identity, culture, and community. Because freedom is not only what we are building toward. It is something we practice now, in every space we create together.

Participants leave with deepened cross-regional alliances, a cohesive regional advocacy roadmap, and renewed commitment to healing justice within their own organizations. But perhaps most importantly — they leave knowing they are not alone.

The workshop is designed for LGBTQI+ organizations and networks across West Africa, human rights defenders working at the intersection of LGBTQI+ rights and democracy, and cross-movement allies engaged in regional movement building. Participation is by invitation and open call.