This funding came to an end in 2012 when the Australian government allocated a greater amount of "foreign aid" towards running offshore detention facilities (defunding other projects).
[citation needed] Scarlet Alliance also employed two part-time bilingual migrant sex workers (Thai, Chinese and/or Korean) for nine years as part of a successful migration project with Empower Thailand.
[18][19][20] As a national organisation, Scarlet Alliance facilitates an annual membership forum which is attended by sex worker delegates from around Australia.
[29] Participants in the training project are required to undertake an assessment process, supported by a qualified peer assessor, to achieve a nationally recognised Diploma of Community Education qualification.
[30] To successfully achieve the qualification, participants are required to demonstrate and document how they have employed peer education principles in their work with sex workers.
[31] Scarlet Alliance is a key advocate and participant[32] in HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention work in Australia.
[34] Scarlet Alliance continues to lobby state and national governments about the difficulties of effective HIV prevention whilst sex work remains a criminalized occupation.
[43] The organisation argues that through accessing legal migration options, migrant sex workers are less susceptible to entering into verbal "debt bondage" contracts[44] as an incentive to obtain passage to, and work within, Australia.