"The On the A-Gender: Community Monitoring Tool for Gender-Responsive Harm Reduction Services for Women who use Drugs aims to be a resource for community advocates to begin documenting, evidencing, and addressing this state of play. By doing so, community advocates can begin to identify areas and locales where gender-responsive services are severely lacking or identify services and programmes that can provide examples of good practice and be scaled up.
Designed to be primarily used by networks of people who use drugs, the tool is envisaged
to be most effective when used by peer researchers who have the trust and rapport of the
community. It is also suitable to be used by programme managers, staff, and other researchers.
The tool acknowledges the diversity and intersectionality of women who use drugs — including sex workers, lesbian and transwomen.
We hope this resource can be a useful and a practical first step towards developing advocacy
strategies to introduce and scale up gender-responsive harm reduction services in various settings
around the world. In this way, the right to health of women who use drugs can be respected and
better promoted." (p. 2/3 of this document)
International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD): https://inpud.net/
