Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
HIV/AIDS
Human Rights
Justice
Labour
Migration
Safety
Violence
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Human rights of women
Men and boys
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
Research
Service provision
Trafficking in women and girls
Violence against women
Women and HIV/AIDS
Women and health
Women and poverty
Population:
Reproduction, family formation and the status of women
Social Development:
Employment
Poverty
Social policy
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Promote gender equality and empower women
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2008 |
| Organizational structure: |
The NSWP was registered as an independent legal entity in 2008, following an organisational review in 2006/7 that recognised the need for a permanent secretariat, staff and an accountable management and governance structure, to carry out a strategic program of communications, capacity building and advocacy. The review recommended the NSWP formalise its membership structure, becoming a network of organisations (rather than individuals), and establish a secretariat in the global north. The United Kingdom was selected as the location and the organisation incorporated as a private not for profit company limited by guarantee with its registered office in Scotland. The NSWP is governed by a Board of 11 Directors, with regional elections to nominate 2 representatives from Africa, Asia and Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America; and a global election for a President. Board members are nominated for a period of two years, one regional board member will rotate of the Board each year, but may be re-nominated for up to four terms. Regional networks determine their own criteria and method for electing their representatives onto the NSWP Board. The NSWP organisational culture and rules ensure it is led by sex workers and that sex workers are meaningfully involved at all levels. The requirement that NSWP members support ‘sex worker self determination’ is interpreted as placing an obligation on members and the NSWP itself to take all practical steps to ensure that representatives and participants in NSWP activities are sex workers The NSWP is committed to facilitating voices of sex workers in both the Global North and South while recognising the factors that drive inequality and global injustice. The NSWP recognises there are a diversity of issues and perspectives among sex workers and strives to make a respectful and accessible space for dialogue and action. Strategies for strengthening participation by sex workers focus on the Global South and include establishing a multi lingual website, language skills and mentoring programmes. |
| Number and type of members: |
NSWP members are regional sex work networks and organisations from all global regions. Member organisations are from diverse cultures and they have different backgrounds and organizational histories. Some are sex workers groups, some are small NGOs, some are projects within government organisations or international NGOs. Almost all work on health issues. Some provide services, some focus on advocacy, some on mobilising to reduce vulnerability and address the human rights issues that affect sex workers health and well-being. Some member organisations work with all genders and some with only men, transgenders or women. A number of member organisations work with the children of sex workers. All members must be committed to challenging stigma and discrimination to defending human rights and to promoting rights based services and policies. There are 6 regional and sub-regional networks who are members of the NSWP, some of which have hundreds of members and whose individual membership can be in the tens of thousands. At present there an additional 230 organisations from the five regions. |
| Funding structure: |
Fees for education and training services
Fees for providing consulting or research services
Foreign and international grants
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