7 March 2001 Interdepartmental meeting MIGRANT - IPEC by Tine Staermose

1. IPEC South-Asian Sub-Regional Programme to Combat the Trafficking in Children for Exploitative EmploymentSouth Asia Strategy and Achievements 7 March 2001 Interdepartmental meeting MIGRANT - IPEC by Tine Staermose

2. Context • Sending countries : Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka • Transit countries: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan • Receiving countries: India and Pakistan

3. Main purposes for trafficking: • Nepal – India: Sexual exploitation and hazardous work • Bangladesh – Pakistan: domestic work marriage, hazardous work (other) and sexual exploitation • Bangladesh – India/ other destinations: • Sexual exploitation, domestic work and organ transplantation

4. IPEC’s involvement in SA • IPEC Nepal starts in 1995 • First Project against trafficking of children takes off 1997 –99

5. Achievements 1997 - 1999 • National Plan of Action • Identification of 26 trafficking prone districts • 4 district plans of action

6. Achievements cont. • National Task Force, all relevant Ministries, Police, NGOs, UNICEF and ILO-IPEC. • 26 District Task Forces

7. Achievements • Regional Conference in Kathmandu in October 1998. • Participation from 5 countries: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal • Regional Plan drafted

8. Bill on Trafficking together with UNICEF and the Police • Documentation center on trafficking in the MWC&SW established • Quarterly Newsletter “ Combat”

9. The ILO-IPEC South-Asian Sub-Regional Programme2000- 2002 • Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka • Internal and external trafficking • Efforts underway to include India and Pakistan

10. Strategy: • 1) Research and Documentation • 2) National Ownership and Initiative • 3) Direct Interventions • 4) Sub-Regional Advocacy

11. Research and documentation • In-depth baseline research feeding into an overall national knowledge base and subsequently into a global knowledge-base through ILO-IPEC’s SIMPOC system.

12. Research and documentation contd... • Intervention-driven research: • Establishment of monitoring mechanisms feeding into the set of project steering tools

13. Research contd. • Methodology: Rapid Assessments, using the ILO-UNICEF draft Manual for research on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, in particular exploring innovative ways of getting data on hard-to-reach populations such as trafficked children. (sociological/anthropological research)

14. National Ownership and Initiative • Through support to national strategies and efforts at governmental and non-governmental levels • Strengthen the institutional capacities to deal with the problem. • In particular, facilitate governments’ efforts to design or implement national plans of action and district plans of action against trafficking of children

15. National Ownership and Initiative contd... • Provide technical support at the working level to relevant Ministries, NGOs and research institutions. • Conduct training programmes for implementing agencies in areas defined by the countries such as in project design, monitoring mechanisms, legal aspects, including training on ILO C. 182 , CRC and other human rights instruments.

16. Direct Interventions • Through targeted interventions in areas of concern: prevention, prosecution of traffickers and rehabilitation of victims.

17. Sub-Regional Activities • 1) Promote a sub-regional position against trafficking through SAARC mechanisms. • 2) Review and put into action the regional plan of action • 3) Nurture networking among NGOs and governments across borders incl. the police • 4) Mobilize the media against trafficking through a sub-regional Action programme.