1 Community Empowerment
Table 1.2 Monitoring indicators for sex worker empowerment |
Level |
Empowerment activities |
Empowerment indicators |
Central |
• Strengthen and expand sexworker-rights networks to promote sex workers ’ rights at a global level |
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• Prioritize and invest in community-led HIV prevention approaches
• Include sex workers in policy , programming and funding decisions
• Inclusion of sex worker movement in national policies and programmes
• Amount of funding allocated to sex worker-led groups
• Inclusion of sex worker-led groups in policymaking on such issues as HIV prevention
• Recognition of sex worker-led organizations at the national level
State / province / district / county
Municipality / Sub-municipality
Frontline worker
• Recognize sex work as work
• Incorporate sex worker participation in formation of local / district / state-level policies and programmes
• Train health-care providers , police and social service agencies in sex worker rights and needs
• Involve sex workers in planning , implementation and service delivery of health , legal and social services
• Raise awareness of sex worker rights in communities
• Forge relationships with sex worker-led organizations and other community groups
• Create safe communal spaces
• Identify common priorities , needs and goals
• Establish and sustain sex worker-led organizations
• Hold meetings , marches and rallies for sex worker rights , to the extent the legal context allows
• Train legal advocates to document and challenge human-rights violations
• Inclusion of sex worker movement in state / district policies and programmes
• Number of health-care providers , police and social service agents trained in sex worker rights and needs
• Level of sex worker involvement in service design and delivery , including health care , legal services and social services
• Changes in attitudes and practices of healthcare providers , police and social service agents towards sex workers
• Changes in degree of discrimination perceived by sex workers from health-care providers , police and social service agents
• Amount of participation of sex workers in public life
• Degree of social acceptance of sex workers by members of the general community
• Number of outside organizations that report contact and partnering with sex worker-led organizations
• Number of safe spaces created
• Degree of social cohesion among sex worker groups
• Number of sex worker-led organizations / collectives established
• Number of meetings , marches or rallies held to promote sex worker rights
• Percentage of sex workers who report participation in a sex worker-led group / collective
• Number of sex workers trained as legal advocates
• Documentation of human-rights abuses
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