2025 LGBTQI+ POLICY AGENDA
CAISO has co-led policy agenda setting in collaboration with community partners and organizations since 2010, and through the Alliance for Justice and Diversity since 2015. The 2020 LGBTI Policy Agenda guided our policy and legislative advocacy over the past four years. During this time, CAISO has produced research and data to support policy recommendations through Insights from our Wholeness & Justice Programme, emerging from engagement with community members. Through annual Insights Reports, resource guides, and the Beyond Decriminalisation Position Paper, CAISO has developed several policy recommendations that are guiding the work of an updated Policy Agenda for 2025. CAISO engaged with community partners and organisations in 2024 through a convening with the Alliance for Justice and Diversity and through a Community Share Space with the wider LGBTQI+ community to gather thoughts, concerns, and issues for identifying priority areas – and specifically reflecting on needs around rights, advocacy, and empowerment.
The 2025 LGBTQI+ Policy Agenda reflects three priority areas and ten action points. The three priority areas are:
1. Inclusive (Expanded) Social Services,
2. Legislative and Policy Change, and
3. Education and Training.
The Policy Agenda is organised by these priority areas – identified through years of engagement with community and provision of services – as well as supported by research and analysis. Each priority area includes identified stakeholders, overall recommendations, the related action points, narrative analysis, intended impact, and resources and data. The agenda is grounded in a decolonial feminist analysis and is intended to be solution-oriented and focused on issues and how to best address them. Therefore, it is significant to note that the actions points would be benefit multiple communities including but not limited to LGBTQI+ people, working-class people, people with disabilities, migrants, GBV survivors, public servants, duty bearers, policy makers, the judiciary, and legislators, among others.