The Joint Working Group (JWG) is a national network of 
LGBTI-focused organisations in South Africa. The JWG represents the organised LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) sector, and speaks and acts in the interest of our respective and diverse constituencies.
The JWG aims to strengthen the LGBTI sector so as to maximise our responses to LGBTI needs and rights. We do this through research; advocacy; constructive dialogue and collaboration; public education; social mobilisation; and positive expressions of our diversity.
The JWG is committed to developing partnerships; enabling the collective use of resources; and drawing on the strengths of participating organisations in contributing towards the realisation of equal access to services and rights for LGBTI people.
With partners across the human rights spectrum the JWG builds alliances with those who share the vision, towards social justice, transformation and development of South African society.
Working within a human rights framework, the JWG strives to be progressive, transformative, democratic, inclusive, provide equal opportunities, heterogeneous, respectful of diversity, non-racist, non-sexist, anti-patriarchy, and empowering.
Members of the JWG are
- ACTICATE Wits
- Behind the Mask
- Durban Lesbian and Gay Community and Health Centre
- Forum for the Empowerment of Women
- Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action
- Gender DynamiX
- Glorious Light Metropolitan Community Church
- Good Hope Metropolitan Community Church
- Hope and Unity Metropolitan Community Church
- Jewish OutLook
- LEGBO Northern Cape
- Out In Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
- OUT LGBT Well Being
- Pietermaritzburg Gay and Lesbian Network
- Rainbow UCT
- South African Youth Liberating Organisation (SAYLO)
- The Inner Circle
- The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project (LGEP)
- Triangle Project
- UNISA Centre for Applied Psychology
- XX/Y Flame
Website: www.jwg.org.za
