Akãhatã, Equipo de Trabajo en Sexualidades y Géneros (Akãhatã) was founded by a group of activists in Buenos Aires. Keenly attuned to on-the-ground realities in South America and having strong relationships with activists and rights groups across the continent, Akãhatã works with its networks to design tailored rights protection and advocacy programs and produce high quality reports based on comprehensive original data.

Freedom House is a non-profit non-governmental organization that works to advance freedom and democracy around the world. Freedom House serves as the administrative lead of the Dignity for All Program. Since 2007, Freedom House has been providing short-term support to human rights defenders, civil society organizations, and survivors of severe religious persecution in some of the world’s most repressive and conflict-ridden environments.

ILGA-Europe - the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association (ILGA) is a non-governmental umbrella organization bringing together 600 organizations from 54 countries in Europe and Central Asia. ILGA-Europe was established as a separate region of ILGA and an independent legal entity in 1996. The three pillars of ILGA-Europe's work are: (1) advocating for human rights and equality for LGBTQI+ people at a transnational level within Europe; (2) supporting strategic litigation through European courts to advance the rights of LGBTQI+ people, usually as part of a wider advocacy campaign; and (3) strengthening the LGBTQI+ movement in Europe and Central Asia by providing training and support to its member organizations and other LGBTQI+ groups on advocacy, fundraising, organizational development, strategic communications, and much more.

OutRight Action International (OutRight) is headquartered in the United States, has staff in eight countries, and works globally. OutRight was founded as a formal NGO in 1990 to respond to human rights abuses against LGBTQI+ people and to urge mainstream human rights organizations to recognize abuses on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. OutRight has since grown to include staff on five continents and is focused on improving the lives of LGBTQI+ people around the world by collaborating with organizations, HRDs, and communities to document LGBTQI+ rights violations; using that data to change hearts, minds, law, and policy; and leveraging regional and international mechanisms to advocate for change at the national, regional, and international levels.

Synergía – Initiatives for Human Rights (Synergía) is a cross-regional organization registered in the Netherlands, Nigeria, and the U.S. and works across Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, focused on capacity strengthening assistance, funding, and strategic guidance to partners as a means of catalyzing their efforts to protect and promote human rights of their communities. Synergía supports partners on the ground to identify and mitigate risks to the resilience and longevity of the movements, and to develop security strategies that reduce these risks and provide rapid response in unforeseen crises.

UHAI – The East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative (UHAI EASHRI) is Africa’s first indigenous activist-led fund for sexual and gender minorities movements in Eastern Africa. UHAI provides accessible, flexible funding to Eastern Africa’s LGBTQI+ movements for civil society organizing. UHAI is invested in promoting the health, rights, and dignity of its communities. It has a history and commitment to seeding great, young ideas, sustaining support for brave, groundbreaking work, and growing community organizations to the kind of stability and structural integrity that will attract other funders and partners.