Resources for sex workers (links)

Below a number of publications and links to useful resources about Red Umbrella Fund, sex workers’ rights, and participatory grant making.

Resources in time of COVID-19

• Resources for sex-workers
• List of sex-workers initiatives

Rapid Response Grantmaking

• Information on available emergency grants

Publications by Red Umbrella Fund

• Strategic Plan (2020-2025)
• CMI! Consortium – Count Sex Workers In! Campaign (2020)
• Case study China (English) (2017)
• Case Study- Brazil- APROSMIG (English) (2017)
• Case study Brasil – APROSMIG (Portuguese) (2017)
• Case study South Africa – SISONKE (2017)
• The creation of the Red Umbrella Fund (2017)
• Funding for sex workers rights – report (2014)
• Summary of report on funding for sex worker rights (2014)

Publications from the Collaboration to Advance the Human Rights of Sex Workers

• LGBTIQ+ and Sex Worker Rights Defenders At Risk During COVID-19 (2020)
• Meeting report (2008): Donor dialogue on sex work and trafficking
• Meeting report (2009): Donor collaboration to Advance the Human Rights of Sex Workers
• Sex Worker Organizations Funding Priorities by Anna-Louise Crago (2010)
• Communications Toolkit (2011)

Resources by other foundations

• Donor mapping report by Open Society Foundations (2006): Sex Workers Health and Rights: Where is the Funding?
• Mama Cash’s history of funding sex worker rights here
• AJWS (2013): Sex Worker Rights: (Almost) everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
• AmplifyChange Learn (2020) Resource to support sex worker-led organizations and networks
• CIVICUS (2021) Curated list of progressive donors 

Resources by sex worker networks

• Many excellent publications and guidelines can be accessed through NSWP

About participatory grantmaking

• The Lafayette Practice (2014): Who decides? How participatory grantmaking benefits donors, communities and movements
• Feature article on Human Rights Funding News (IHRFG): Paradigm Shift: Participatory Grantmaking Comes of Age.