ILGA Asia Mid-Term Review

ILGA Asia’s Mid-Term Review of the 2021-2025 Strategic Plan and Theory of Change is now live!  This in-depth evaluation highlights our progress in four core areas: 1. Solidarity and Effectiveness; 2. Capacity Strengthening; 3. Mobilising Movements and Activating Allyship; and 4. Strategic Information & Knowledge Use.

This report provides progress of program implementation of 2021-2025 SPTOC, as well as insights and strategic recommendations to improve our program and member engagement in the future.

As we gear up for the 2026-2030 strategic plan, the report provides key recommendations to continue driving progress for LGBTIQ rights in the region.

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Shambawi Paudel

(she/they)
Research Associate
Shambhawi Paudel is a feminist advocate with a research interest in critiquing intersectional application of human rights standards. She completed her LLM in Human Rights Law specializing in International Justice.She is involved in policy research and has written and published on a range of issues, including gender, queer rights, education policy, and digital rights and privacy concerns. She believes it is important to have long conversations about navigating oppressive social power relations rooted in care and community. She enjoys reading and crocheting in her free time.

Omair Paul

(he/him)
Research and global advocacy program manager

Omair Paul is the Program Manager at ILGA Asia. He joins the team with almost a decade of UN advocacy experience, previously serving as the UN Representative for Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) since 2014. He led the organisation’s UN advocacy strategy and campaigns, represented MPV in various high-level UN meetings & processes, and forged working relationships with diplomats, UN agencies, and civil society organisations (CSOs) and networks.

He focuses on countering fundamentalist religious ideologies and protecting the rights to free expression, freedom of religion and belief, and the economic and social rights of women, girls, and ethnic, religious, and SOGIESC minorities in Muslim societies.

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