“Rights are won in courtrooms and committee rooms as much as on the streets.”— PrideShow Editorial Board
The Asia Foundation works on the unglamorous infrastructure of inclusion: governance, rule of law, women's empowerment and inclusive development. In Thailand that includes supporting LGBTQ+ civil society to access justice and shape legal reform — the behind-the-scenes work that made changes like marriage equality possible.
As an international development organisation, its impact comes through partnership and institution-building rather than direct service, strengthening the local organisations and legal channels that durable change depends on. Rights are won in courtrooms and committee rooms as much as on the streets.
In the Impact Index, the Asia Foundation earns gold — credit for the patient, structural work of building the legal and civic plumbing through which inclusion ultimately flows.