Child Protection Compact Partnership Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Jamaica

For the Government of the United States of America

For the Government of Jamaica

Key Activities:

Roles and Responsibilities of Government of Jamaica Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs)

TIP Office-Supported Activities, through Implementing Partners

1.1 Develop and/or strengthen existing national inter- and intra-agency protocols for coordination between criminal justice system officials and victim advocates and service providers, and implement these protocols to ensure effective victim-centered handling of child trafficking cases from detection through prosecution

1.1a Participating MDAs provide information about existing protocols and practices and input for developing and/or strengthening them

1.1b Participating MDAs designate staff for training and provide input to training materials

1.1c Participating MDAs adopt and implement updated protocols, assess their ongoing effectiveness, and work with partner to update protocols as needed

1.1a Partner works with participating MDAs to assess existing protocols and effectiveness of coordination on cases, and works with participating MDAs to develop and/or strengthen existing protocols and practices

1.1b Partner trains relevant MDAs in implementation of protocols

Associated Performance Indicators:

1.1a All participating MDAs effectively utilize protocols for child trafficking cases

1.2 Improve methods for ensuring victim-centered approaches (i.e., providing child-friendly trauma-informed services and prioritizing the protection, security, and wellbeing of the victim) in law enforcement operations, investigations, and criminal justice proceedings, including by enhancing the capacity of social workers at the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) and personnel at the Ministry of Justice’s Victim Services Division (VSD), as well as coordination with civil society

1.2a JCF, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), and the judiciary designate staff for training; integrate specialized training into standard curriculum for relevant officers; and provide information to partner on additional or ongoing training needs

1.2b JCF issues guidance that all anti-trafficking operations should follow victim-centered practices

1.2c Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and CPFSA work with partner to develop a plan to ensure each child trafficking victim has access to consistent support through the entirety of the criminal justice process

1.2d DPP, the judiciary, and the Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA) provide information to partner on current policies and practices and provide input for strengthening victim-centered procedures in court proceedings

1.2e DPP and the judiciary review and assess current practices in prosecutions and court proceedings involving child victims/witnesses and recommend changes that will reduce the trauma for children, such as the use of pre-recorded testimony, live video technology, special programs that prepare child witnesses for court, court accompaniment by child advocates, and separate waiting areas

1.2a Partner provides training to JCF officers – including Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigation Branch (CTOC), CISOCA and Proactive Investigation Units (PIUs) – prosecutors, and judges in victim-centered interview and criminal justice proceeding techniques and, as relevant, operational approaches to employ victim-centered practices during law enforcement operations; works with government to institutionalize specialized training

1.2b Partner assists government, as appropriate, to increase the availability of victim services staff (such as providing supplemental staff through partnerships with civil society and/or technical support to CPFSA and MOJ to increase personnel)

1.2c Partner works with DPP and the judiciary to assess current practices and recommend improved policies and practices for prosecutions and court proceedings that reduce the trauma for child victims who serve as witnesses, such as the use of live video technology, pre-recorded testimony, special programs that prepare child witnesses for court, court accompaniment by child advocates, and separate waiting areas

Associated Performance Indicators:

1.2a Increased number of successful victim-centered investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of child sex and labor trafficking cases

1.2b Increased number/percentage of identified child trafficking victims have consistent support from CPFSA and/or VSD throughout the criminal justice process

1.3 Improve the technical capacity of investigators, prosecutors, and judges and develop methods to enable effective and timely judicial processes and sentencing in trafficking cases

1.3a JCF, DPP, and the judiciary designate staff for training, including police from PIUs; provide input into training curriculum design; and provide implementing partner with information about additional training or mentoring for staff as needed

1.3b JCF, DPP, and the judiciary integrate specialized training into existing training curricula 1.3c MOJ and judiciary assess challenges to timely judicial processes and current and planned judicial reform efforts and take steps to conduct court proceedings in a more timely manner; MOJ and DPP assess challenges to timely prosecutions and take steps to conduct prosecutions in a more timely manner

1.3a Partner provides basic and advanced training, including techniques for intelligence-driven operations; follow-up mentoring; and other support for JCF, DPP, and the judiciary

1.3b Partner works with JCF, DPP, and the judiciary to institutionalize specialized training on trafficking investigations, prosecutions, and convictions through MDA training academies or other relevant institutions

Associated Performance Indicators:

1.3a Increased number of investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of child sex and child labor trafficking cases

1.3b Increased percentage of child sex and labor trafficking investigations lead to prosecutions

1.3c Increased number of child trafficking prosecutions are concluded within one year

1.4 Using existing infrastructure such as CISOCA Units, establish multidisciplinary, child-friendly spaces in locations across the country, for interviewing child trafficking victims and providing medical and psycho-social care immediately following their removal from trafficking situations

1.4a JCF identifies an adequate number of physical spaces (i.e., a building or part of a building) to cover each of its five police areas that is private and removed from frontline police work to be provided for this purpose

1.4b CPFSA, Ministry Of Health (MOH) and MOJ designate social workers, medical doctors and VSD representatives to provide services at each location, including on-site staff when possible.

1.4c JCF ensures these locations are available for interviewing child trafficking victims, and that interviews employ victim-centered techniques

1.4d JCF and NATFATIP maintain the furnishings provided by the partner and obtain necessary resources for long-term maintenance

1.4a Partner provides initial furnishings, repairs, and assists with purchase of equipment (including video equipment if appropriate) for each location

1.4b. Partner works with relevant MDAs to provide training for personnel at each location

Associated Performance Indicators:

1.4a Increased number of multidisciplinary spaces are available and appropriately staffed

1.4b Multidisciplinary spaces are used appropriately in an increased number of child trafficking cases

1.5 Increase resources to enhance ONRTIP’s capacity to collect data, monitor, and report on anti-trafficking efforts, particularly the implementation of victim-centered methods during investigations and prosecutions

1.5a ONRTIP will leverage its existing resources to fulfill its mandate, including by publishing an annual report on the government’s anti-trafficking efforts, and will work with partner to develop a plan for obtaining additional resources

1.5b Government of Jamaica increases financial and personnel resources for ONRTIP

1.5a Partner will provide direct technical support to ONRTIP to fulfill its mandate and technical support for obtaining additional resources

Associated Performance Indicators:

1.5a ONRTIP publishes report on government’s anti-trafficking efforts annually

1.5b ONRTIP has increased resources to fulfill its mandate

1.6 Increase efforts to detect, investigate, criminally prosecute, and punish officials who permit or facilitate trafficking crimes

1.6a Government of Jamaica develops a plan for increasing efforts to address trafficking-related complicity

1.6b Relevant MDAs provide input for training curriculum and information campaign design and integrate training into standard curriculum

1.6c Relevant MDAs provide information to partner on existing reporting mechanisms and collaborate to identify weaknesses and strengthen procedures

1.6a Partner collaborates with relevant MDAs to design and deliver training for government officials and information campaigns to the public on methods for reporting suspected official complicity in child trafficking, including provisions in the Protected Disclosures Act; works with government to institutionalize such training

1.6b Partner provides technical assistance for MDAs to improve reporting procedures

Associated Performance Indicators:

1.6 Increased number of investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of officials who permit or facilitate trafficking crimes

1.7 Strengthen and maintain systems to collect and report relevant investigation, prosecution, conviction, and sentencing data, including disaggregation by number of defendants, the criminal offense charged, type of exploitation, and age, gender, and place of origin of victims

1.7a Participating MDAs provide information about existing data collection systems and gaps and help implement plan to address gaps

1.7a Partner works with participating MDAs to assess gaps in existing data collection system and creates plan to address gaps

Associated Performance Indicators:

1.7a Data on an increased number/percentage of relevant cases – including investigation, prosecution, conviction, and sentencing data on child trafficking cases, disaggregated by number of defendants, criminal offense charged, type of exploitation and age, gender, and place of origin of victims – is collected, maintained and analyzed

Key Activities:

Roles and Responsibilities of Government of Jamaica Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs)

TIP Office-Supported Activities, through Implementing Partners

2.1 Develop standardized procedures for identification of victims, including screening vulnerable children to determine whether they may be victims of sex or labor trafficking, and a national referral mechanism for referring suspected victims to appropriate authorities and/or select NGOs as deemed appropriate by the Government of Jamaica for further investigation and comprehensive care

2.1a Participating MDAs provide information about current policies and procedures to proactively identify victims from among vulnerable groups and national referral mechanisms, and provide input on developing and/or strengthening these procedures to be more systematic and effective

2.1b Participating MDAs adopt and implement new or strengthened procedures for victim identification and referral

2.1c Government of Jamaica develops a directory of NGOs designated to provide services to child trafficking victims and, as necessary, grants them the requisite approvals to do so

2.1a Partner works with participating MDAs to assess existing victim identification and referral procedures and identifies gaps in design or implementation that limit effectiveness

2.1b Partner assists participating agencies to develop or strengthen existing identification procedures

2.1c Partner assists participating agencies to strengthen and standardize existing referral mechanisms, including for immediately referring victims to receive comprehensive care

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.1 Participating MDAs effectively implement procedures for victim identification and referral

2.2 Provide training to relevant authorities (including frontline police in the JCF and all CISOCA officers; social workers; staff of the Children’s Registry; healthcare workers; justices of the peace; the Ministry of Labour and Social Security’s Occupational Safety and Health inspectors, investigators, labor officers, and social workers; immigration officers; and consular officers) on all forms of child sex and labor trafficking and procedures for implementing victim identification and referral guidelines nationwide

2.2a Participating MDAs designate staff for training

2.2b Participating MDAs integrate specialized training on victim identification and referral procedures into standard curriculum for relevant staff in their institutions and provide information to partner on additional or ongoing training needs

2.2a Partner provides training on victim identification and referral procedures to participating agencies, assesses effectiveness of this training, works with MDAs to institutionalize training, and provides follow up support as needed

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.2a Relevant authorities identify an increased number of child sex and labor trafficking victims

2.2b Relevant authorities effectively refer an increased number of child sex and labor trafficking victims for investigation and care

2.3 Designate a lead agency, such as CPFSA, to provide individual case management and coordinate the provision of comprehensive services to child trafficking victims (from identification through reintegration and follow-up, and relevant criminal proceedings) and develop this agency’s capacity to serve in this role

2.3a The Government of Jamaica designates a government entity to serve as the first point of contact to receive referrals of suspected child trafficking victims, and to continuously manage their care and protection, including through facilitating access to services from other MDAs

2.3b The Government of Jamaica takes necessary steps to ensure such agency has the relevant legal authority to identify child trafficking victims, to provide them with direct services, and to facilitate their access to services from other MDAs

2.3c The designated government entity works with partner to design and implement capacity building for relevant authorities

2.3d The designated government entity develops a plan to increase specialized personnel

2.3a Partner works with designated agency to design and implement plan for capacity building of relevant authorities

2.3b Partner assists designated agency, as appropriate, to supplement its human resource capacity, such as providing technical support to increase personnel or facilitating partnerships with NGOs and private practitioners

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.3 Increased number/percentage of identified child trafficking victims receive individualized case management and comprehensive services from identification through reintegration and follow up and relevant criminal proceedings

2.4 Strengthen the capacity of relevant authorities to provide individualized comprehensive, trauma-informed care to child trafficking victims (including shelter, medical care, case management, psycho-social counseling, repatriation, temporary or long-term residency, education and/or job training, legal assistance, reintegration, and follow-up) and develop and/or strengthen existing policies to clearly articulate their respective roles, responsibilities, and authorities

2.4a Participating MDAs provide partner with information about victim protection policies and practices, and work with partner to identify gaps and develop strategies to strengthen these efforts

2.4b The Government of Jamaica takes steps, as necessary, to ensure MDAs have the appropriate mandates to deliver services to trafficking victims and make decisions about victims’ care and protection

2.4c Participating MDAs adopt and implement new or strengthened policies and practices on trauma-informed victim protection and increase interagency cooperation

2.4a Partner works with participating MDAs to develop a plan to strengthen existing policies to clarify the roles and responsibilities of relevant MDAs to deliver services to victims and make decisions about victims’ care and protection, and to ensure each child trafficking victim has access to the full range of protective services, regardless of their individual circumstances or the status of their legal case

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.4a Increased number/percentage of identified child trafficking victims receive individualized comprehensive, trauma-informed care

2.4b Relevant authorities effectively implement new or existing policies and cooperate effectively within their respective roles, responsibilities and authorities

2.5 Using existing infrastructure, expand the availability of shelter spaces that are appropriately staffed and equipped to provide quality care to all child trafficking

victims

2.5a CPFSA identifies appropriate spaces within its existing facilities and converts them into shelters for child trafficking victims

2.5b CPFSA dedicates trained social workers to provide psycho-social support and case management to victims residing in shelters, including the existing TIP shelter

2.5c CPFSA, NATFATIP, and other relevant MDAs ensure that all staff in shelters, including the existing TIP shelter, are trained on trauma-informed care and integrate such specialized training into standard curriculum for relevant staff

2.5d CPFSA and NATFATIP maintain the furnishings and repairs provided by the partner and obtain necessary resources for long-term maintenance

2.5e CPFSA and NATFATIP work to increase services and activities available to victims in shelters, including through partnerships with civil society organizations

2.5f CPFSA and NATFATIP work with partner to designate select non-governmental facilities to serve as shelters for child trafficking victims and build their capacity to provide trauma-informed care

2.5a Partner works with CPFSA and NATFATIP to assess gaps in availability of shelter spaces for all child trafficking victims and identify appropriate number and location of spaces

2.5b Partner provides initial furnishings, repairs, and supplies for new TIP shelter spaces

2.5c Partner provides training on trauma-informed and specialized care to all shelter staff; works with government to institutionalize specialized training

2.5d Partner works with CPFSA and NATFATIP to designate select non-governmental facilities to serve as shelters for child trafficking victims and build their capacity to provide trauma-informed care

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.5a An increased number of shelter spaces that are appropriately staffed and equipped to provide quality care to all child trafficking victims is available.

2.5b An increased number of child sex and labor trafficking victims receive services in appropriately equipped and staffed shelters

2.6 Expand the availability of psychologists, psychiatrists, community mental health nurses, social workers including social workers assigned to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and victim services staff across the country that are equipped to provide specialized psycho-social care to child trafficking victims

2.6a Participating MDAs designate staff for training and work with partner to identify appropriate private-sector professionals to be included in training; provide input into training curriculum design; assess whether trained staff have the appropriate skills to provide specialized trauma-informed care to victims; ensure that specially trained personnel are assigned to work with child trafficking victims; and provide information to partner on additional or ongoing training needs

2.6b Participating MDAs support partner to institutionalize specialized training, such as through integrating training into standard curriculum for relevant staff

2.6a Partner provides specialized training and follow up mentoring for each MDA

2.6b Partner works with relevant MDAs to institutionalize specialized training for psychosocial caregivers in Jamaica (i.e. working through universities and MDA training academies)

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.6a An increased number of skilled professionals provide psycho-social support to child trafficking victims

2.6b An increased number of child trafficking victims receive ongoing psycho-social support from trained professionals

2.7 Build the capacity of civil society organizations to proactively identify and respond to child trafficking crimes and to collaborate with government authorities to provide trauma-informed care to child trafficking victims from identification through

reintegration and follow up

2.7a Relevant MDAs work with partner and selected civil society organizations to develop policies and protocols to facilitate partnerships in the provision of services to victims

2.7a Partner delivers training to select civil society organizations to identify and respond to child trafficking crimes and to provide trauma-informed care to all child trafficking victims; trainings may be delivered jointly to governmental and nongovernmental officials, as appropriate

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.7a An increased number of child sex and labor trafficking victims are identified by civil society organizations

2.7b An increased number of skilled civil society professionals provide trauma-informed services to child trafficking victims

2.7c An increased number of child trafficking victims receive services from trained civil society professionals

2.8 Increase resources to enhance ONRTIP’s capacity to collect data, monitor, and report on the provision of comprehensive protective services to child trafficking victims

2.8a ONRTIP will leverage its existing resources to fulfill its mandate, including by publishing an annual report on the government’s anti-trafficking efforts, and will work with partner to develop a plan for obtaining additional resources

2.8 b Government of Jamaica increases financial and personnel resources for ONRTIP

2.8a Partner will provide direct technical support to ONRTIP to fulfill its mandate and technical support for obtaining additional resources

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.8 ONRTIP has increased resources to fulfill its mandate

2.9 Increase reintegration and follow-up services for child trafficking victims, including risk assessment, preparation for reintegration, and connecting

victims and /or their families to livelihood opportunities

2.9a Participating MDAs work with partner to develop standardized victim assessment and reintegration procedures and adopt and implement new or strengthened policies on reintegration

2.9b NATFATIP and participating MDAs provide information about existing social security, vocational training programs, and community initiatives – including those administered through the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and, the Heart Trust/NTA, and the SDC – and work with partner to develop mechanisms to seamlessly connect child trafficking victims and their families to these programs

2.9c Participating MDAs cooperate with civil society and private sector partners to connect child trafficking victims and their families to services

2.9a Partner assists participating MDAs to develop standardized procedures to guide case managers in preparing an individual reintegration plan for each identified child trafficking victim

2.9b Partner assists NATFATIP and MDAs to develop mechanisms to connect child trafficking victims and their families to existing social security and vocational programs

2.9c Partner works with participating MDAs to assess existing livelihood support programs provided through civil society or the private sector and develops procedures to systematically connect child trafficking victims and their families to these services

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.9a Individual reintegration plans are developed and implemented for an increased percentage of identified child trafficking victims

2.9b An increased percentage of identified child trafficking victims and/or their families receive livelihood development opportunities

2.10 Strengthen and maintain systems to collect and report data on victims of child trafficking and services provided, including disaggregation by age, gender, place of origin, and type of exploitation

2.10a Participating MDAs provide information about existing data collection system gaps and work to implement plan to address gaps.

2.10 Partner works with participating MDAs to assess gaps in existing data collection system and works with relevant MDAs to create plan to address gaps

Associated Performance Indicators:

2.10a Data on an increased number/percentage of relevant cases – including victims identified and services provided, disaggregated by age, gender, place of origin, and type of exploitation – is collected, maintained, and analyzed

Key Activities:

Roles and Responsibilities of Government of Jamaica Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs)

TIP Office-Supported Activities, through Implementing Partners

3.1 Conduct nationwide research on the prevalence of child sex and labor trafficking in Jamaica and the nature of these crimes, including links to other criminal activity such as gang violence and child sexual abuse and the sociocultural factors that make children vulnerable to these crimes

3.1 All participating MDAs provide information to support research, facilitate dissemination of research findings, and integrate relevant findings into policies and practices

3.1a Partner conducts rigorous nationwide research, to the extent possible, on the prevalence of child sex and labor trafficking in Jamaica and the nature of these crimes, and works with agencies on dissemination of findings

Associated Performance Indicators:

3.1a New research on the nature and prevalence of child sex and labor trafficking in Jamaica is disseminated to inform agencies and the public

3.1b New research informs subsequent CPC Partnership activities

3.2 Develop and finalize an updated National Plan of Action for Combating Trafficking in Persons prior to the expiration of the current plan, and secure adequate funds for its implementation

3.2a NATFATIP, with input and cooperation from its member entities, will develop an updated National Plan of Action (NPA), obtain necessary approvals for its formal adoption by the Government of Jamaica, and lead efforts to seek adequate resources for its implementation

3.2b NATFATIP and its member entities will integrate activities and objectives of the CPC Partnership into the NPA

3.2c Member entities of NATFATIP will obtain sufficient resources and personnel to fulfill their respective mandates under the NPA

3.2a Partner will provide technical support to NATFATIP and its member entities to develop an updated NPA and seek adequate resources and personnel to fully implement the NPA

Associated Performance Indicators:

3.2 Updated NPA is adopted and integrates activities of the CPC Partnership

3.2b Member entities of NATFATIP obtain sufficient resources and personnel to fulfill their mandates under the NPA

3.3 Build the capacity of Social Development Commission personnel, community health aides, school staff, religious leaders, civil society members, and the public to proactively identify child trafficking victims, including cases of domestic servitude, sex trafficking occurring within the community, and less recognized forms of child trafficking; take appropriate action once cases are identified; and facilitate the reintegration of child trafficking victims into their communities

3.3a Participating MDAs designate staff for training

3.3b Participating MDAs expand and integrate specialized training on victim identification and referral procedures into standard curriculum for relevant staff in their institutions and provide information to partner on additional or ongoing training needs

3.3a Partner delivers training to participating MDAs and nongovernmental stakeholders on identifying and responding to suspected cases of child sex and labor trafficking

Associated Performance Indicators:

3.3a Participating stakeholders identify an increased number of child sex and labor trafficking victims

3.3b An increased number of stakeholders demonstrate the knowledge to identify cases of child sex and labor trafficking in their community, how to refer cases to appropriate authorities for investigation and comprehensive care, and facilitate reintegration of children into their community

3.4 Develop and implement comprehensive community-based outreach and education activities that are targeted, locally appropriate, and have a particular focus on identifying, responding to, and preventing child trafficking crimes that occur within the community

3.4a Participating MDAs, including the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Information, assist partner in selecting pilot communities and designing and implementing community education program

3.4b Participating MDAs integrate effective community education programs into existing curricula and replicate programming in additional locations

3.4a Partner collaborates with participating MDAs to design and deliver pilot community outreach and education programs, assess effectiveness of program design, revise materials as needed, and promote sustained use of effective model

Associated Performance Indicators:

3.4 Community members in selected locations demonstrate an increase in knowledge of the dangers of child sex and labor trafficking, appropriately identify and refer victims, and begin to take action against these practices

3.5 Take steps to prevent foreign nationals from exploiting Jamaican children in sex trafficking, including through cooperating with foreign authorities to prevent suspected child sex tourists from entering the country

3.5a The Passport, Immigration, and Citizenship Agency – in partnership with NATFATIP or other MDAs, as appropriate – strengthens procedures for receiving and responding to reports of suspected child sex tourists

3.5b Relevant MDAs will work with partner to develop a strategy for strengthening efforts to combat child sex trafficking in the tourist sector

3.5a Based on the potential result of research findings, partner will work with relevant MDAs to develop a strategy for strengthening efforts to combat child sex trafficking in the tourist sector

Associated Performance Indicators:

3.5a An increased percentage of suspected child sex tourists are prevented from entering Jamaica

3.5b Strategy for strengthening efforts to combat child sex trafficking in the tourist sector is developed and implemented

3.6 Strengthen systems to collect and report parish data on prevention activities and community-based victim identification efforts, including disaggregation by age, gender, type of exploitation

3.6a Participating MDAs provide information about existing data collection system gaps and implement a plan to address gaps

3.6a Partner works with participating MDAs to assess gaps in existing data collection system and works with relevant MDAs to create plan to address gaps

Associated Performance Indicators:

3.6a Parish-level child trafficking data is regularly collected, maintained and analyzed, and information is used to improve program activities