RAIN 2 Seed: The Initiative of Trans with A Mission

RAIN 2 grantee the Initiative of Trans with A Mission works to empower LGBTQIA+ individuals in rural Uganda whose rights have been significantly restricted by the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act. Based in Mbale district in eastern Uganda, the organisation supports LGBTQIA+ communities through inclusive livelihood initiatives and agricultural activities in a region where climate change, environmental pressures, and economic challenges increasingly affect smallholder farmers.

Innovation Challenge grantees have the option to participate in a research study in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre looking at the transformative potential of their initiative. This is part of the Seeds for Transformative Resilience work. The research project involves a series of interviews and surveys that were analysed to develop a document that details and explains these efforts and investigates the grantees transformative potential.

A seed is a local or regional initiative already being implemented but not yet mainstream that strengthens community resilience and has the potential to drive transformative change. These initiatives offer practical examples of how more sustainable, resilient, and peaceful futures can emerge through new ways of thinking, social movements, institutions or technologies. Seeds have transformative potential when they support learning and systems understanding, foster collaboration, are backed by resources, fit their context and help shift power structures and norms.