| The project focuses on internal and
cross-border trafficking in children and
women for labour exploitation, including
sexual exploitation. Activities are being
implemented in Cambodia, China's Yunnan
Province, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam,
and at Mekong Sub-regional level.
The development objective of the project
is to contribute to the elimination of labour
exploitation of children and women, and
in particular the trafficking of children
and women in the Greater Mekong Sub-region,
through the development, implementation
and monitoring of effective and integrated
sub-regional and national strategies and
actions. Its three immediate objectives
are (1) to develop national frameworks,
structures, policies and processes to address
trafficking, (2) to supplement the knowledge
base relating to trafficking and labour
migration in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
with new and updated information and develop
a sub-regional platform for sharing information,
and (3) to support government efforts to
mainstream good practices in community-based
prevention. The project will have eight
major outputs:
- National frameworks against trafficking
developed and/or strengthened with functioning
implementation plans and monitoring mechanisms;
- In-country mechanisms for monitoring
and information exchange developed and
functioning;
- Previous project experiences, lessons
and technical products adapted and mainstreamed
to national, provincial and local-level
authorities through capacity building
and training;
- Gaps in research and information relating
to trafficking, labour migration and exploitation,
and responses to these identified and
addressed;
- Sub-regional platform for exchange of
experiences and information sharing developed
and functioning;
- Sub-regional and country strategies
developed to articulate trafficking within
the labour migration framework;
- Pilot programmes of community-owned
prevention interventions refined, monitored
for impact, evaluated, and mainstreamed
into larger frameworks;
- Workers and employers mobilized and
sector-specific policies, programmes or
projects against trafficking developed.
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