Namibia's Rainbow Project

Notable examples include responding to official government reports demonstrating that heterosexuals engaging in unprotected intercourse are the main transmitters of HIV in Namibia[4] and promoting HIV–AIDS prevention strategies which are sensitive to the experiences of sexual minorities, free of homophobic misinformation.

[5] Ashley Currier described SWAPO's discrimination as directed against the LGBT community and women, characterising their leadership as "masculinist", with political homophobia a tactic permitting maintenance of the status quo.

[6] TRP collaborated with Sister Namibia to respond to public attacks (verbal and physical) on sexual minorities in the country, developing networks with international human-rights and LGBT organisations to draw national attention to the "invisibility" of their community.

[5] Although social and economic "material realities of extremely high HIV prevalence, sexual violence, gender inequality, tribalism and underemployment" were experienced to some degree by most Namibians, their impact was compounded for the LGBT community.

[8] With economic challenges an issue for more members at this time, debates began about whether TRP should expand its social services or devote limited resources to launching public legal-reform campaigns.

[5] LGBT activists from South Africa's National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality (NCGLE) collaborated with TRP to develop a plan for the campaign in light of Namibia's volatile political climate regarding LGBT-identified people.

On September 8 of that year, TRP's statement condemned Mushelenga's speech as a "direct attack against the civil rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of Namibia".

TRP issued a July 2006 statement condemning former SWAPO president Sam Nujoma, who called National Society for Human Rights founder and director Phil ya Nangoloh "homosexual".

[6] TRP said that Nujoma's use of "homosexual" to refer to ya Nangoloh was an attempt to use him "as a scapegoat to avert attention from the current controversies within the SWAPO Party",[1] appealing to Pohamba to condemn the verbal attack and "maintain his government’s pro-human rights stance".

[10] It held organisational meetings, public forums and coming-out testimonials, community social events, and empowerment workshops on sexual and gender identity, self-esteem and body image.

[7] Although TRP provided workshops, literature, and counselling to encourage safe-sex practices among LGBT-identified Namibians, it was argued that lack of information could not be considered the sole deterrent to safer sex.