SWAN hosted an online event on SWIT to mark the closing of the Robert Carr Fund program on November 23, 2021. Since UN agencies and the NSWP endorsed the Sex Worker Implementation Tool or SWIT in 2013, SWAN has promoted it in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia for two cycles of the RCF, or six years in total. This […]
SWAN member Tais Plus from Kyrgyzstan come out with a new design of Sex Worker Implementation Tool (SWIT). Over the years Tais Plus has found creative ways of promoting SWIT within sex workers in Kyrgyzstan, including a mini-theatre presenting all six chapters SWIT. This year SWIT was turn into a calendar. The calendar is available […]
SWAN Programme Officers, with regional experts and activists from Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan as co-facilitators, organised the online training series on SWIT. Each webinar focused on different parts of SWIT such as Community Empowerment, Violence, Condom and Lubricant Programming, Community-led Services, Program Management and Organisational Capacity Building and 15 Activists were guided through chapter by chapter […]
Between the 14-18 of January 2019, SWAN and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) co-organised a workshop in Bishkek on Introduction to Monitoring the roll-out of the SWIT and meaningful involvement of sex workers.
The day before the workshop, agenda for the following 4 days was developed by the coordinator of the national sex worker led organisation Tais Plus, SWAN and NSWP staff. Stakeholders were identified and invited to be interviewed.