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Co-financed
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DG Health |
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neither
the European Commission nor any person acting on its behalf is liable
for any use made of this information |
Participation
of East European members is financed by
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| Expert
group: Hard-to-reach groups: sex workers – Pasop / Rode
Draad |
| Background
( description of the situation and the field the activity takes
place) |
| Sex
work in the EU becomes increasingly diffuse, fragmented and
informal. There are many new nationalities, mobility is high
and modern technology creates new forms: internet and mobile
telephones. Grey areas around prostitution develop: swinger
clubs, ‘amateur’ prostitution by couples, barter
prostitution by drug users. There are so many sub groups and
sub forms and they seem to be ever more hidden and harder to
detect and reached by social and medical service providers.
This poses an immense challenge to develop additional methods
for these new situations. |
| Aims/Goals |
The
aims of this expert group will be to:
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gather existing best practices of rendering information,
support on medical and social issues for empowerment, safety
and social inclusion; and improving them,
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describe them in such a way that people working with other
target groups can learn from these experiences,
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identify best practices from the work with other target
groups in order to improve models for sex workers,
Possible target groups for the activities: drug using sex
workers, male sex workers, migrants (especially East-West),
third parties (e.g. customers, brothel owners, partners),
isolated workers.
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| Objectives/activities |
- The
Europap network has produces an elaborated set of (predominantly
medical) guidelines for delivering services to sex workers.
They are available in many languages at www.europap.net
; click services, click guidelines. They guidelines can
be disseminated further and can be adapted or presented
as a model for other target groups
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Develop, implement and evaluate pilot activities for the
sub-target groups: drug using sex workers, male sex workers,
migrants (especially East-West), third parties (e.g. customers,
brothel owners, partners), isolated workers.
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Collect and evaluate best practises regarding different
target groups
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Make models of good practise applicable for other target
groups
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| Methods |
- Disseminate
and promote existing best practises
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Map and evaluate different models of good practise
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Implement and evaluate simultaneously pilot activities in
different countries
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Translate different methodologies from one target group
to another
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| Results/outputs |
- Catalogue
on existing best practises for all sub-categories of sex
workers
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Guidelines on implementing different methodologies for sex
workers
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Reports on the different pilot activities
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