Table 2. Factors identified to impact on participation and implementation of community mobilisation interventions (CMIs) and interviews in which they featured.
| Factors impacting participation and implementation of CMIs | Theme discussed in interview: | Illustrative quote |
|---|---|---|
| Diversification of buyers and sellers of sex (hidden sex work) | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,12,14,15,16,17,18 | “Where they do sex work will change. We have seen that steadily the number of sex workers in brothels has declined remarkably. And bar based, home based and floating sex work has increased exponentially. So this is going to take place. Our outreach will have to change accordingly as the changes happen”(7) |
| Stigma and identity | 2,4,5,6,7,8,10,12,14,15,16,17,18,19 | “However we try to convince them they do not trust us easily. Even in our repeated visits they continue to deny that they are sex workers.” (18) |
| Management and control of sex work | 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,15,16, | “They do not allow the new girls who are under their debt to come out.” (16) |
| Sex worker mobility | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11, 12,13,15,16,17,18 | R: Some go on contract basis. I: What is that? R: They have contract of 15 days but will work for 17 days for which they get 25–30000 rupees. (…) They are taken to Mumbai, Pune, Nasik, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Goa and many such big places. I: How many times does a girl make a contract? R: It depends upon her financial need. Some go regularly, some 2 or 3 times in a year. (13) |
| Heterogeneous FSW population | 1,2,3,4,6,9,10,11,12,15,16,17 | Competition is also increased. Like other labour charges have gone down because of migrants from other states same way because of Bangladesh’s girls' sex workers rates are also gone down. They will do anything in cheaper rate. So the number of customers of local sex worker’s is also reduced. (12) |
| Programme model and ownership | 1,2,3,4,5,10,11,12, 14,15,17,19 | Sometimes targets to be met are so many because of which quality gets compromised. (10) |
The findings demonstrate how the identified factors influence both participation and implementation of the CM interventions and reveals close interactions between the interventions and the sex industry.