Project for Combating Child Trafficking for Labour
and Sexual Exploitation (Phase II)
| Time-frame |
Donor(s) |
Duration: 42 months
Dates: Oct. 2002-Mar. 2006 |
US Department of Labour (USDOL) |
The project to combat trafficking in children in south Asia (TICSA) began in 1998 with research,
consultation, and analysis leading to a two-year regional project, covering Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri
Lanka in the first phase. These three countries continue to be core countries for the second phase, which
began in October 2002 with a focus on policy development, capacity building, prevention, rescue,
rehabilitation, and reintegration. The project experience acquired during the first phase is being applied
in non-core countries — i.e. Pakistan, Indonesia and Thailand — in the second phase to fill the technical
intervention gaps in Asia.
Main objectives
- To review legal frameworks and propose revisions where appropriate
to reflect trafficking aspects;
- To improve the knowledge base on trafficking and effective action
to enable stakeholders to plan, implement and monitor programmes
against trafficking of children;
- To strengthen the capacity of relevant governments, employers'
organizations, trade unions and NGO institutions;
- To assist children and families in high-risk sending areas and
to reduce children's vulnerability to trafficking;
- To rehabilitate the victims of child trafficking and develop child friendly guidelines.
Components
This project has a number of components, such as:
- Research;
- Policy development;
- Capacity building;
- Prevention;
- Rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration.
The prevention model includes social mobilization, awareness raising,
economic empowerment, vocational training, career guidance, youth
employment, and non-formal education to reduce the vulnerability
of communities, families, and their children to trafficking in high-risk
sending areas. The rehabilitation model includes rescue, psychosocial
counselling, use of multidisciplinary team and case management,
children's participation, non-formal education, vocational training,
and economic empowerment (Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka have all
of the above components).
Direct beneficiaries
The intended beneficiaries of the programme are children under
the age of 18 years, who are at risk and those who are victims of
trafficking, in each country. Demonstration projects for prevention
and interception are located at selected trafficking prone districts,
both sending as well as transit districts. Many of the affected
children are girls because of the demand for young women and girls
in the sex trade and in domestic work, as well as the low status
of women in the concerned societies. However, in certain pockets,
boys have been identified through TICSA Phase I research as being
specifically targeted by trafficking chains and, consequently, the
services will be extended to them ( 33 ).
Key outputs
- Proposal for integration of child trafficking for exploitative labour in national and regional legal
frameworks;
- Child friendly guidelines developed and integrated into existing legal frameworks;
- High-level policy makers, members of the judiciary, and representatives from SAARC countries
mobilised;
- Regional research group and research methodology to study the demand side of trafficking;
- Regional report on the demand side of trafficking;
- Rapid assessments in Indonesia and Pakistan;
- Good practices and lessons learnt report for stakeholders;
- National database on trafficking in core countries;
- Government officials and parliamentarians trained on design, monitoring, and coordination;
- Trade unions and employers' organizations mobilized and the media trained to report on issues of
trafficking;
- Economic options for families in high-risk sending areas and transit areas in place;
- Awareness against child trafficking raised in communities of high-risk sending areas;
- Children at risk empowered through non-formal education, remedial classes, youth clubs, and
technical and vocational education;
- Surveillance and interception with high-tech skills in investigation, including training in cyberwatch
investigations (Sri Lanka);
- Children withdrawn, intercepted/rescued are rehabilitated or referred to other agencies;
- Strategies and pilot models for long-term reintegration of child survivors of trafficking.
Note 33 - IPEC Research Report: Nepal
cross-border trafficking of boys (2002). |
