On July 22, 2020, the Administrative Council adopted a new LGBTIQ+ 2030 municipal strategy. 7 main axes and 23 priority objectivesit supervises current and future actions, both externally and internally of the municipal administration, until 2030. It also strengthens their coordination and monitoring, placed under the responsibility of the Agenda 21 – City Service. sustainable.
The context
With a view to an inclusive and sustainable society, the City of Geneva has been committed for many years against violence and discrimination based on sexual and emotional orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics. She works for the promotion and respect for fundamental human rights lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer people or people belonging to other sexual and gender minorities (LGBTIQ+) on its territory. More particularly, the second axis of this strategy “Specifically supporting vulnerable groups” aims to identify the vulnerabilities specific to certain groups within LGBTIQ+ communities.
Support for trans, intersex and non-binary people
Among LGBTIQ+ populations, trans, intersex and non-binary people are particularly precarious and discriminated against. Their fundamental rights are insufficiently protected. And they are more likely to suffer suffering and strong pressures in a society thought and constructed in a binary way. Despite increasing media coverage, these issues remain little or poorly known to the general public and are often marked by stereotypes.
These populations, particularly vulnerable, require special attention and have specific needs which are still rarely filled by general programs aimed at LGBTIQ+ populations. Projects dedicated to these people remain rare and struggle to receive subsidies.
For meet these needs and strengthen its action by developing specific public policies, the City of Geneva has Llaunched in 2024 a new trans, inter and non-binary program which includes two shutters. The first part consists of a public awareness program issues related to the populations concerned. It is also an opportunity to reaffirm the City’s support for self-determination, the trans-affirmative approach and its firm condemnation of non-vital sexual normalization operations on intersex children and any attempt to modify the sexual orientation or gender identity. A first event took place on March 26 in the form of a round table on the reception of transgender people within public institutions. Other events are planned for 2024.
THE second part of this program consists of a reserved grant envelope of CHF 20,000.- which will be distributed each year in the form of a call for projects.
The objectives of the call for projects
This new one-off grant envelope aims to encourage projects aimed at trans, intersex and/or non-binary people or which promote their inclusion in Geneva.
Criteria
- The project must exclusively concern trans, intersex and/or non-binary populations. General projects, even if they include these populations, do not fall within the criteria of this call for projects and may be the subject of an ordinary grant request from the Agenda 21 – Sustainable City service;
- The project must aim to raise public awareness on these themes, mediate the issues and/or strengthen the capacities of the people concerned;
- It must be a new project which does not already benefit from a subsidy from the City of Geneva;
- Innovative projects are encouraged. Particular attention will be paid to projects that address in an intersectional manner the themes of the Agenda 21 Service – Sustainable City and the LGBTIQ+ 2030 Municipal Strategy (gender equality, cultural diversity, sustainable development, etc.);
- The project must take place in 2024 and must concern exclusively the Geneva territory;
- It must be carried by a natural person or a structure with legal status and must meet the criteria required by Regulation LC 21 195 governing the conditions for granting municipal subsidies.
Deadline to apply
Deadline: Saturday August 31, 2024.
Nota Bene: the new online request portal requires you to create your partner space in advance, which can take around a month before you can submit a request.
Submission of files
Find all the information and online form to submit a request on the call for projects page – Trans, intersex and non-binary program.
