Deadline: 23 June 2017
The Open Society Public Health Program calls for letters of intent from organizations, informal groups, and networks in France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom to apply for funding to change dominant narratives about sex workers.
Purpose and Priorities
With the overall goal of changing dominant narratives about sex work, the foundation consider funding requests specifically for creative interventions that provide counter-narratives to the sensational representation of sex work and promote structural change for the benefit of sex workers by:
- raising awareness about the rights of sex workers and the consequences of criminalization of sex work;
- amplifying the voices of sex workers, empowering sex workers to tell their own stories, and documenting their everyday experiences;
- creating space for dialogue about sex work and the manifold issues affecting sex workers, including poverty, stigma, precarious working conditions, violence, the deportation of undocumented migrants, and more; and
- highlighting a multiplicity of perspectives on sex work and contributing to critical debates on the decriminalization of sex work.
Funding Information
Applicants can apply for a maximum of U.S. $50,000 for a period of no more than 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
Projects should fulfill all of the following criteria in order to be eligible for funding:
- The project makes the issue of sex work more salient; it provides a new framing of the issue of sex work, or enables new actors to enter the debate about sex work.
- Strategic and policy-relevant: While we do not expect narrative change to occur quickly, the proposed project must be designed with the aim of changing public discourse over the long term.
- Sex worker–centered: Applicants must demonstrate sex worker leadership or partnership on an equal footing in all phases of the project.
- The project must be implemented in one of the following countries: France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
How to apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Countries: France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
For more information, please visit Open Society Foundation’s Grant.