Synergía - Initiatives for Human Rights seeks to protect and promote the human rights of all people – particularly those whose rights are most systematically and egregiously violated, with a range of programs that address violations that are motivated by one’s sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression (SOGIE). Synergía staff partners with local civil society organizations (CSOs) and human rights defenders (HRDs) to advocate for human rights across Latin America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, and the Middle East and Northern Africa. Synergía focuses on strengthening skills of its partners to plan, fund, and manage human rights programs, and on channeling resources to these partners to use their improved skills in a range of human rights advocacy initiatives that these partners have developed at local, regional, and international levels. This blend of capacity strengthening and grassroots re-granting will be implemented under three interrelated and interdependent thematic areas of work: movement building, security and protections, and rights and advocacy.