Butcher, Kate

In this article, the authors recount the development of an innovative monitoring tool for use by sex workers in a peer education programme. A brief history of the project in Nepal is given and the use of the tool - the 'mala' is described with an accompanying note on its impact.

A description of the 'Mala' (necklace) as a self assessment tool helping women to monitor both their own activities as commercial sex workers as well as their role as peer educators. Different activities were recorded using coloured beads strung into necklaces.