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Organising for change

24.03.2017

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Resources to support LGBTI community organising work

Community organising is not an easy task, and LGBTI groups and organisations – sooner or later – struggle with such work. It requires determination, strengths, resources and leaders/ facilitators. In our experience, successful and sustainable community organising is a matter of vision and strategy, but it is also about planning and having the right skills.

With this material ILGA-Europe want to continue developing a framework, vision and strategy for LGBTI community organising work in the European region.

In this resource you’ll find what we know as an organisation in this moment. We hope that this document will trigger more thinking and learning in the LGBTI movement and we’ll be happy to check this information with more experiences from LGBTI community organisers.

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