NSWP amplifies the voices of sex worker-led organisations advocating for rights-based services, freedom from abuse and discrimination, freedom from punitive laws, policies and practices, and self-determination for sex workers. NSWP works primarily with sex worker-led regional networks and facilitates sex worker-led capacity building.

NSWP’s work is informed by the Consensus Statement on Sex Work, Human Rights, and the Law, published in 2014 following a global members’ consultation, and endorsed by all members of NSWP.

NSWP publishes a wide range of resources, including Briefing Papers and Policy Briefs, with accompanying Community Guides, Global and Regional Reports, Smart Guides, Statements, the Research for Sex Work journal and Case Studies. NSWP’s Regional Correspondents provide sex work-related News from across the five NSWP regions.

NSWP advocates for and facilitates sex worker representation in international policy forums, and ensures that sex worker-led organisations have opportunities to contribute to the development of international normative guidance, such as the Sex Worker Implementation Tool (SWIT).

NSWP is a partner in the Bridging the Gaps Alliance, working within the sex worker programme with a focus on capacity building of sex worker-led organisations and global advocacy.

NSWP is the lead agency in a Sex Worker Networks Consortium, bringing together the global and regional sex worker-led networks in developing and implementing capacity building programmes funded by the Robert Carr civil society Networks Fund.