To tie this into our context, I will say that the cuts to international co-operation projects greatly limit the actions of organizations that protect the rights of members of the LGBT community.
I'll give you a concrete example. In Mali, instead of officially declaring their identity, people come under the guise of a humanitarian organization. Consequently, they are perceived as members of an organization fighting AIDS, for example, or another organization defending the community's rights.
Moreover, on the ground, organizations that protect LGBT rights have very limited activities. There must be allies within each of the organizations involved in access to justice or the promotion of human rights. Not everyone is open to that, as the issue of the community's rights is not actually a legal one, but a societal one. It is African society, or sub-Saharan society, that is not yet ready to accept the attitudes or way of life of members of the community.
Legally speaking, not all legal professionals or lawyers support them either. A project I worked on is an example. I've worked on three major projects: justice, prevention and reconciliation for women, minors and others affected by the crisis in Mali, or JUPREC; Tien Sira; and the PLURIELLES project.
As part of the JUPREC project, we organized mobile legal clinics that went out to community members. We couldn't invite them to large hotels because community or state actors might have seen that as promotion. So we had to travel to them and meet in private to raise awareness about the legal remedies available to them if they feel wronged or if their rights are violated, as well as the remedies available regionally.
That's a summary of what I can say about the role of community members and human rights defenders in general and how they operate in these countries. The context is not at all favourable.