As of August 1, 2022, the TIP Office manages 116 bilateral, regional, and global anti-trafficking projects in over 95 countries worth more than $225 million in total. Information on many of these projects is listed below.
AFRICA – EAST
Countries: Select Sub-Saharan African Countries and Libya
Implementer: Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA)
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 8/1/2021 – 7/31/2024
Description: This project is supporting the expansion of CIJA’s operations into Libya and select Sub-Saharan African countries to investigate the networks associated with the Islamic State’s organized exploitation of migrants and trafficking in persons. CIJA supports the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking offenses by the Islamic State and related terrorist organizations through the collection and preservation of evidence of trafficking of adults and children.
Countries: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelle, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 3/31/2023
Description: UNODC is working to improve regional cooperation and coordination on trafficking in persons in Eastern Africa through the development and implementation of a regional plan of action to combat human trafficking. Additionally, UNODC is assisting states to draft and adopt anti-trafficking legislation, implementing regulations, and national action plans.
Country: Djibouti
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2023
Description: IOM is partnering with the Ministry of Women & Family Affairs to establish a human trafficking shelter to protect and assist victims of trafficking in Djibouti. Currently there are no human trafficking-specific shelters in the country, and it is critical for a shelter to be established if the Government of Djibouti is to identify and refer victims of trafficking. IOM is also developing and implementing a victim identification and referral mechanism for victims of trafficking while working with local partners to directly assist trafficking survivors.
Country: Ethiopia
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $1,400,000
Duration: 3/1/2020 – 8/31/2023
Description: IOM is strengthening the capacity of the national task force to implement the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), establishing a centralized data management system for the NRM as well as a toll-free hotline to report human trafficking cases, and upgrading two local NGO shelters to provide services for victims of transnational and internal trafficking. IOM is supporting the National and Regional Task Force to address internal trafficking in its 2020-2025 National Action Plan. IOM is training NRM members on screening interviews, referrals, and case management, culminating in the rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of internal and transnational trafficking.
Country: Ethiopia
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $1,500,000
Duration: 7/1/2020 – 6/30/2024
Description: UNODC is strengthening the capacity of the Witness Protection Directorate to effectively provide victim and witness assistance and protection in human trafficking cases; operationalizing the National Referral Mechanism Standard Operating Procedure victim-witness protection processes and procedures through the delivery of specialized training for law enforcement officials; and developing specialized skills within the Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) Unit to investigate and prosecute internal child trafficking.
Country: Ethiopia
Implementer: The Freedom Fund (FF)
Amount: $7,000,000
Duration: 10/1/2019 – 3/31/2023
Description: The Freedom Fund is making progress towards substantially and measurably reducing the prevalence of domestic servitude amongst women and girls in Ethiopia and in the migration corridor to the Middle East. After having strengthened the evidence on the prevalence, causes and consequences of child trafficking within Ethiopia with a focus on domestic servitude, the project will work towards reducing the prevalence of internal domestic servitude experienced by girls and transnational domestic servitude experienced by Ethiopian women and girls. The FF will support sub-grantees to positively influence the behavior of key stakeholders, including recruiters, and enforce the government action to reduce domestic servitude amongst Ethiopian girls; and enable survivor-centered and trauma-informed support and reintegration services to children and adults, including those returning from the Middle East.
Countries: Indian Ocean Commission – (Comoros and Mauritius)
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $500,000
Duration: 4/1/2020 – 3/31/2023
Description: This project targets two Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) member countries, Comoros and Mauritius and seeks to strengthen and formalize victim identification and referral mechanisms. Specifically, IOM is developing guidelines and tools to proactively identify victims of trafficking and refer them to care, training national referral mechanism stakeholders on the tools and procedures for identification and referral, and providing direct assistance to victims of trafficking.
Country: Kenya
Implementer: Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 8/1/2021 – 7/31/2024
Description: LWOB is assisting in the establishment of a specialized prosecution unit within the Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) to combat commercial and online child sexual exploitation. Additionally, LWOB is developing a human trafficking data collection and reporting mechanism to improve data collection use and analysis to support victim identification, referrals, and criminal justice.
Country: Madagascar
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $2,000,000
Duration: 8/1/2021 – 7/31/2024
Description: UNODC is working with the Government of Madagascar to establish and operationalize human trafficking investigation and prosecution units to effectively detect, investigate, and prosecute trafficking in persons and child sex tourism; strengthen the national centralized data collection and reporting mechanism; and strengthen international cooperation in criminal justice matters.
Countries: Sudan
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $300,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Description: This program supports implementation of the Juba Peace Agreement and the Constitutional Declaration by assisting the Government of Sudan to fulfill its commitment to protect human rights and strengthen the rule of law to combat trafficking in persons. IOM is supporting the Government of Sudan to respond to COVID-19 impacts on human trafficking through policy-oriented research, trainings on victim identification for frontline government officials and migrant community leaders, and the direct provision of critical protection services for victims of trafficking.
Country: Tanzania
Implementer: New York University (NYU)
Amount: 1,300,000
Duration: 5/1/2022 – 9/30/2026
Description: This project seeks to reduce trafficking for domestic work Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam Tanzania through predeparture awareness raising know your rights campaigns and the organization and education of community-based organizations to assist victims.
Country: Uganda
Implementer: The Human Trafficking Institute (HTI)
Amount: $600,000
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 3/31/2023
Description: HTI is working to increase the number of victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by creating a Trafficking in Persons Training Academy for designated criminal justice practitioners; establishing a human trafficking data collection and reporting mechanism, and providing case consultation on individual investigations and prosecutions through in-person and remote guidance on investigative methods, review of evidence, and guidance on prosecution strategies. HTI develops specialized skills to improve the Ugandan response to prosecuting traffickers by delivering an intensive two-week training academy for designated trafficking in persons criminal justice practitioners and by embedding an experienced attorney in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to work with these dedicated officials. The outcomes aim to increase the capacity of authorities to identify, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking cases, thereby leading to an increase in trafficker accountability, serving as a deterrent to potential traffickers and preventing traffickers from exploiting more individuals.
AFRICA – SOUTH & CENTRAL
Country: Angola
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $580,000 (+$420,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2022
Description: IOM is contributing to a strengthened national response to address human trafficking in Angola with a focus on protection of victims of trafficking. IOM is assisting the Angolan government to update its National Action Plan, National Referral Mechanism, and Standard Operating Procedures for the identification of victims. The project is providing assistance to victims of trafficking and addressing sustainability through the training of trainers model, follow-up trainings, and the creation of standard operating procedures.
Country: Eswatini
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $100,000
Duration: 08/1/2022 – 04/30/2023
Description: In 2020, J/TIP provided a $40,000 grant to IOM to fund the renovations necessary to provide suitable shelter for TIP and gender-based violence survivors, but the shelter was unable to be fully refurbished due to budget constraints. This project is finalizing the multi-stakeholder collaborative effort previously supported by J/TIP to complete and launch the shelter, publish shelter guidelines, and work with the government to create a plan for shelter management moving forward.
Countries: Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia
Implementer: Love Justice International (LJI)
Amount: $2,078,277
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2023
Description: LJI is implementing a new approach to observe and take direct action to halt human trafficking in progress, identify perpetrators, and gain intelligence to support the investigation and prosecution of perpetrators. The project is focusing on preventing trafficking by intervening at the point of transit to ensure victims do not reach the point of exploitation. LJI also is working to improve comprehensive services for identified victims and increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions.
Country: Lesotho
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $850,000
Duration: 03/1/2020 – 07/31/2023
Description: IOM is strengthening the response to human trafficking through multi-sectoral committees at national and district levels to increase awareness of human trafficking, leading to behavioral change through two-way communication between the Government of Lesotho and local communities. The project is creating results-driven community, sub-national, regional, and national networks empowered to combat human trafficking and is raising awareness and providing educational information on human trafficking issues and risk factors to a target population. To ensure sustainability and maximize impact, training of trainers, coaching and mentorship approach, and communication tools are being used to identify the specific vulnerability of each target group and ensure that knowledge gained will lead to sustainable behavioral change of the at-risk populations. IOM is reviewing and updating the terms of reference for the national trafficking in persons multi-sectoral committee and any subordinate committees, including the finalization of standard operating procedures and of the national referral mechanism on victims of trafficking.
Country: Malawi
Implementer: Plan International
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 7/1/2022 – 6/30/2025
Description: This project works in Lilongwe, Mwanza, Mulanje – three hotspots for intra-country TIP – to strengthen the capacity of front-line actors; refine and align national level policies and programming; bolster support services to survivors; and link community, district, and national level initiatives.
Country: Zambia
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 10/1/2018 – 9/30/2023
Description: IOM is enhancing the awareness of human trafficking among at-risk populations and improving protection services for victims of trafficking. Prevention activities include targeted awareness raising campaigns in rural and border areas through radio and television broadcasts in local languages; training of the media to report on human trafficking; and sensitization workshops with traditional and religious leaders. Protection activities include an assessment of shelters in Zambia and upgrading three facilities, especially for male victims; improved protection of identified victims through training of shelter staff and service providers; and provision of direct assistance to victims.
AFRICA – WEST
Country: Burkina Faso
Implementer: Plan International USA
Amount: $2,075,000
Duration: 5/1/2021 – 4/30/2024
Description: Plan International is providing comprehensive, survivor-informed services to child trafficking survivors and building the capacity of key actors to prevent and respond to trafficking. The project is focusing on support for children 10-18 years old in areas with a high prevalence of child trafficking due to recruitment from violent extremist groups, in the Cascades, Boucle du Mouhoun, and Northern regions.
Country: Cabo Verde
Implementer: International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
Amount: $1,350,000
Duration: 6/1/2021 – 5/30/2024
Description: ICMPD is building the capacity of the National Observatory for Monitoring and Rapid Identification of Human Trafficking Situations (Observatory), which is mandated to convene the main anti-trafficking stakeholders and coordinate anti-trafficking efforts in Cabo Verde. ICMPD is refining the roles and responsibilities of the Observatory members, supporting the development and implementation a National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the protection of victims, developing a training of trainers course for the NRM and SOPs, and supporting a comprehensive study on human trafficking and child sexual exploitation.
Country: Côte d’Ivoire
Implementer: United National Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $1,325,000
Duration: 2/1/2018 – 7/31/2023
Description: UNODC is supporting the operationalization of the National Committee Against Trafficking in Persons; sensitizing the public and criminal justice practitioners on the newly enacted trafficking in persons law; supporting the development of a National Referral Mechanism, which is a framework for identifying victims of human trafficking and ensuring they receive the appropriate support; conducting multidisciplinary trainings for criminal justice practitioners and protection actors on the new human trafficking law, investigations, victim interviewing, and coordination; and providing specialized training on the new law to the National Police Anti-Trafficking Unit and the Transnational Organized Crime Unit.
Country: Ghana
Implementer: Free the Slaves (FTS)
Amount: $4,035,000
Duration: 10/1/2015 – 8/15/2022
Description: This project aims to free hundreds of children found in hot spots among Lake Volta’s fishing communities and the surrounding regions and train more than 2,000 community members, traditional authorities, and government officials on ways to combat child trafficking sustainably. In partnership with International Needs Ghana, Partners In Community Development Programme (PACODEP), and Mission of Hope Society International (MIHOSO), FTS trains community leaders to recognize child trafficking, take appropriate action, and help reintegrate rescued children into communities; raise public awareness in selected communities; support livelihood alternatives for families of reintegrated children; and provide staff training and grants to NGOs that provide aftercare services for child trafficking victims.
Country: Guinea and Sierra Leone
Implementer: The University of Georgia (UGA)
Amount: $4,000,000
Duration: 10/1/2018 – 9/30/2023
Description: UGA Research Foundation, Inc., in possible partnership with the University of Liverpool, will contract with the Resilient Africa Network (RAN) to develop a methodology or methodologies to measure the prevalence and impact of human trafficking in two target countries in Africa to be determined in collaboration with the TIP Office. Research efforts will also entail collecting and analyzing existing prevalence data from multiple sources and conducting service needs assessments. Prevalence data findings, coupled with needs assessment results, will shape the design of two sub-awards to implement anti-trafficking projects in the two target countries following an open and competitive process administered by UGA.
Country: Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone
Implementer: The University of Georgia (UGA)
Amount: $19,750,000
Duration: 10/1/2019 – 9/30/2025
Description: UGA is working to address sex and labor trafficking of children in select African countries to be determined jointly with the TIP Office, including $4,000,000 for a Prevalence Methodology Innovation Forum.
Country: Senegal
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $475,000
Duration: 11/1/2021 – 10/31/2022
Description: IOM is reinforcing child protection efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. IOM is supporting four under-resourced national reception centers by providing education and play equipment, clothes, hygiene kits and monthly food allowances to meet the urgent pandemic-related increased demand for direct assistance to vulnerable children. Funding for this project will enable IOM, in coordination with the Ministry of the Family and Child Protection, to reintegrate 600 Senegalese victims of human trafficking with their families.
Country: The Gambia
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 11/30/2022
Description: IOM, in partnership with the government and local NGOs, is using a variety of methods to disseminate awareness raising information to prevent human trafficking. The project works with the three existing One Stop Centers for victims of gender-based violence to train its staff to screen for and provide comprehensive services to victims of trafficking, in addition to victims of other forms of gender-based violence. IOM is also reviving the government’s National Anti-Trafficking Task Force to help the country better coordinate its efforts to combat human trafficking and is training criminal justice practitioners to conduct proactive investigations to identify and respond to human trafficking.
Country: Liberia
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $450,000
Duration: 6/1/2022 – 5/31/2023
Description: IOM is strengthening the Government of Liberia’s capacity to provide victim-centered and trauma-informed services to Victims of Trafficking (VoTs) affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is providing protection and assistance to VoTs. By providing trainings, shelter refurbishment, and reintegration packages, the project will strengthen the Anti-TIP Taskforce’s capacity to achieve its mandate to protect VoTs, while also providing a leading example on how provision of protection and assistance should be done in the future in other regions of Liberia.
Country: Nigeria
Implementer: Heartland Alliance International (HAI)
Amount: $1,250,000
Duration: 1/1/2017 – 11/30/2022
Description: HAI is working to improve the capacity of governments, civil society, and communities to protect and provide comprehensive services for survivors of trafficking in Nigeria, particularly former child soldiers and women and girls trafficked by combatants for forced labor and/or sexual exploitation. The project is focused primarily in Northeast Nigeria, where the majority of identified former abductees are currently located.
Countries: Nigeria
Implementer: Pathfinder’s Justice Initiative, Inc
Amount: $200,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 09/30/2023
Description: Pathfinder’s Justice Initiative is providing economic recovery, basic needs, and mental health support to at least 60 survivors of sex trafficking, and other individuals vulnerable to trafficking due to the pandemic. This project utilizes a survivor-led, trauma-informed approach that connects survivor advocates with at-risk women.
Countries: Nigeria & Liberia
Implementer: Freedom Fund
Amount: $2,032,000
Duration: 7/1/2022 – 12/13/2024
Description: This project is developing targeted interventions to reduce the prevalence of exploitative child domestic work; pilot-testing the interventions; and using the evidence to articulate an intervention model for local and regional stakeholders to reduce abuses and exploitation in child domestic work.
EAST ASIA & THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
Countries: Laborers along the BRI
Implementer: China Labor Watch, Inc. (CLW)
Amount: $600,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 09/30/2023
Description: In this project, CLW will work directly with overseas Chinese migrant workers most affected by forced labor in various Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries, many of whom have been stranded in BRI projects abroad amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will neither support nor promote the BRI, and instead will provide services to victims who worked or are working as part of the BRI. Furthermore, this project will raise awareness of China’s escalated human trafficking, and particularly forced labor operations, in BRI projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. CLW will provide training to trafficking victims, provide guidance on securing healthcare and COVID-19 vaccines, collaborate with the media to expose the trafficking crimes in BRI projects, and help labor trafficking victims to escape from exploiters, regaining their freedom. Funding for this project will enable CLW to collect evidence through two on-site visits to meet with victims and conduct groundbreaking research to better understand the extent and impact of forced labor along the Belt and Road Initiative.
Countries: Burma, Laos, and Thailand
Implementer: Anti-Trafficking Coordination Unit Northern Thailand (TRAFCORD/FOCUS)
Amount: $450,000
Duration: 7/1/2019 – 6/30/2023
Description: TRAFCORD/FOCUS is working to bring together a local network of government and non-government agencies to address the migration and humanitarian crisis in Thailand’s northern borders with Burma and Laos. TRAFCORD is working to prevent human trafficking among individuals migrating to Thailand in search of economic opportunities, with special attention to marginalized populations (e.g., stateless individuals, refugees, and ethnic minorities), especially women and children.
Country: Cambodia
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $1,500,000
Duration: 6/1/2022 – 5/31/2025
Description: IOM is contributing to the coordinated efforts of Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to combat trafficking in persons through strengthened survivor protection and services for all forms of trafficking. This is achieved through enhanced victim identification, demand driven delivery of services and reintegration options in provinces along Thailand-Cambodia border: Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Odder Meanchey and Koh Kong. The improvement in victim identification rates is measured by comparing available data from government and non-government actors. The quality of services and reintegration options are assessed by effectiveness of cooperation between actors and by the number of governmental and non-governmental actors participating in the counter trafficking in persons efforts.
Country: Indonesia
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $950,000
Duration: 3/1/2020 – 2/28/2023
Description: IOM is working directly with Indonesia’s Supreme Court to strengthen its capacity to adjudicate human trafficking crimes, as well as apply proper victim restitution and compensation in line with Indonesia’s human trafficking laws. To accomplish this, IOM is partnering with the Center for Indonesian Law and Policy Studies to develop a training curriculum and trafficking-focused manual for judges in training. IOM is supporting the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection to update Indonesia’s national Standard Operating Procedures on victim services. IOM also is administering a Victim Assistance Fund to assist the government and civil society in providing services to victims.
Country: Laos
Implementer: The Asia Foundation (TAF)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 3/1/2020 – 2/28/2023
Description: TAF is working with the four primary shelters in Laos to support the long-term economic empowerment and mobilization of victims of human trafficking, as well as expand its current work with Laos’ Ministry of Justice on human trafficking-related trainings for village mediation units. These efforts include connecting village networks and mediation units with provincial and district legal aid offices to increase victims’ access to justice and legal assistance. This project assists Laos in establishing a structure that would provide meaningful assistance to victims in a culturally appropriate manner.
Country: Laos
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 3/1/2020 – 2/28/2023
Description: IOM is strengthening the Laotian government’s capacity to meet its legal commitments to combat human trafficking. IOM is working with the Government of Laos to develop a National Action Plan that will take effect when the current National Action Plan ends in 2020. IOM also is working with the Ministry of Public Security to improve case referral between village mediation units, border officials, and police. IOM is engaging with nonprofit organizations to build a network in northern Laos to assist and refer victims of trafficking to services and to increase prevention efforts.
Country: Laos
Implementer: Village Focus International
Amount: $394,750
Duration: 10/01/2021-09/30/2023
Description: In Laos, more than 200,000 migrants have returned from Thailand due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite border closures, thousands of migrants continue to make the trek home to Laos each day. Upon returning, migrants are processed through under-resourced governmental Quarantine Centers, which lack both the capacity to identify victims of trafficking and the resources to provide support to survivors. Funding for this project will directly increase the capacity of front-line Laotian stakeholders by establishing COVID-19 Task Force Committees at the Quarantine Centers. At least 270 Health Care officials, Labor and Social Welfare officials, Immigration Police, Soldiers, and other key officials will be trained in human trafficking victim identification, data documentation, and service referral strategies. This project will be implemented with substantial cost-share from Village Focus International.
Countries: Malaysia and the Philippines
Implementer: International Justice Mission (IJM)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 7/15/2021 – 7/14/2024
Description: IJM is working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to improve the quality of its online sexual exploitation of children referrals to law enforcement in Malaysia and the Philippines, bringing about stronger criminal cases. IJM is also working directly with relevant government officials in Malaysia and the Philippines to improve their capacity to combat this crime.
Country: Malaysia
Implementer: International Justice Mission (IJM)
Amount: $2,000,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2023
Description: IJM is working directly with the Malaysian government to implement effective, victim-centered prosecutions, provide victim services, and better identify potential trafficking victims. IJM is working directly with local NGO Global Shepherds Berhad to provide direct legal training for Malaysian officials and service providers. This training focuses on trauma-informed engagement with a further focus on helping victims understand the legal process in Malaysia and how trafficking survivors fit in. IJM and Global Shepherds Berhad are also working with local NGO shelters and service providers to increase the level of trauma-informed care provided to victims. IJM is leading an effort to develop victim identification protocols for use across the Malaysian government, which it does in tandem with local NGO Tenaganita.
Country: Mongolia / CPC
Implementer: World Vision
Amount: $5,500,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 5/31/2024
Description: World Vision will supports the U.S. commitments outlined in the CPC Partnership, an agreement that was developed jointly with the Government of Mongolia to support enhanced and more effective efforts to address child trafficking. Building on the strong foundation of the Mongolian government’s anti-trafficking efforts, WV works to achieve improved, sustainable policies and practices that ensure effective interagency coordination and collaboration on child trafficking efforts; hold perpetrators of child trafficking criminally accountable; provide comprehensive and trauma-informed protective services for child victims; and prevent child trafficking from occurring. A cost and time extension supporting World Vision in its efforts under the U.S.-Mongolia Child Protection Compact Partnership to increase capacity and collaboration of the government, civil society, and private sector stakeholders to strengthen the Government of Mongolia’s efforts to effectively prosecute and convict child traffickers.
Countries: Pacific Islands (Fiji, Marshal Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Solomon Islands, and Tonga)
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 1/1/2020 – 12/31/2022
Description: UNODC is assisting the countries of the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Palau, the Solomon Islands, and Tonga with measuring and monitoring human trafficking within their national borders. UNODC is working closely with the governments of these countries, both at the national and local levels, to accurately estimate the prevalence of trafficking by using advanced statistical techniques.
Country: The Philippines
Implementer: International Justice Mission (IJM)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 5/1/2021 – 4/30/2023
Description: IJM is improving the aftercare of children who have been sexually exploited online in areas of the Philippines in which such crimes are common. IJM is working with the Government of the Philippines and the private sector to build a care system that addresses the special needs of these survivors in a holistic manner and on an individual scale and done in a victim-centered and trauma-informed manner.
Country: Thailand
Implementer: International Justice Mission (IJM)
Amount: $1,440,000
Duration: 6/1/2022 – 11/30/2025
Description: This program will equip the Government of Thailand’s frontline officials to correctly and consistently identify and investigate forced labor/labor trafficking cases in line with Thailand’s trafficking in persons law and in a trauma-informed, victim-centered manner.
Countries: Vietnam
Implementer: HAGAR USA
Amount: $235,000
Duration: 11/1/2021 – 10/31/2022
Description: In Vietnam, thousands of victims of trafficking, labor migrants, and refugees have been displaced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 3,700 Vietnamese have returned from Laos and China to Nghe An province alone, with an additional 10,000 returnees expected before the end of 2021. Funding for this project will directly increase the capacity of the Government of Vietnam to combat human trafficking through the establishment of at least six Multi-Sector Emergency Response Teams (ERTs) to coordinate partnerships with provincial, district, and commune Women’s Unions. These ERTs will help lead the effort to register victims and vulnerable populations upon their return to Vietnam, ensure their receipt of psychological first aid, and navigate their application for social services through the established national referral mechanisms. This project will be implemented with substantial cost-share from Hagar International.
Country: Vietnam
Implementer: Blue Dragon
Amount: $1,000,000 (+ $460,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 7/15/2022 – 6/14/2025
Description: This project will expand earlier efforts made through a TIP Office’s Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS) grant to help increase victim protection in Vietnam, with a particular emphasis on improving interagency collaboration on combatting trafficking in persons at the provincial level.
EUROPE & EURASIA
Country: Regional (Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine)
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: TBD
Description: This project will meet the urgent need for prevention awareness-raising activities and protection assistance to trafficking victims or those vulnerable to trafficking due to the invasion of Ukraine, such as forcefully displaced persons, including Ukrainians forced to flee the country, those internally displaced, stranded third party country nationals, and vulnerable Ukrainians remaining in place.
Countries: Southeastern Europe (Albania, Moldova, Montenegro, and North Macedonia, Serbia)
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $1,750,000
Duration: 5/1/2021 – 4/30/2024
Description: UNODC is conducting national reviews and analysis of recent human trafficking cases to map factors and weaknesses that contributed to cases being inadequately investigated, prosecuted, and adjudicated. UNODC is developing findings, thematic recommendations, and training plans to improve victim-centered and trauma-informed investigations and prosecutions in each country. UNODC is also conducting multi-disciplinary national and regional trainings and workshops for law enforcement investigators, prosecutors, and other actors, and developing and adopting a regional mentoring plan with mentor countries.
Countries: Western Balkans (Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro)
Implementer: Terre des Hommes Foundation (Tdh)
Amount: $1,025,000
Duration: 2/1/2018 – 11/30/2022
Description: Tdh is working to set up a regional cooperation mechanism among the four participating countries and strengthen transnational protocols through the development of adequate learning tools, capacity building trainings, and regional policy coordination tools related to trafficking in persons. The project is also supporting victim identification and assistance and implementing community-based awareness initiatives to assist child victims of trafficking. The regional mechanism works to promote improved collaboration and coordination within the Western Balkans for early identification of victims, improved service provision, case management, and reporting.
Country: Armenia
Implementer: World Vision
Amount: $950,000
Duration: 7/1/2021 – 6/30/2024
Description: World Vision is increasing proactive efforts to identify and provide protection to trafficking victims in Armenia, including children exploited in state childcare institutions. The project team is engaging partners to develop Standard Operating Procedures and indicators of forced labor and sex trafficking for victim identification and for reporting and referral of the crimes. World Vision is also developing training curricula and implementing training on trafficking in persons for Community Social Workers.
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Implementer: World Vision
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 3/1/2019 – 11/30/2022
Description: World Vision is strengthening the capacity of the government along with local organizations to respond to victims of trafficking through improved protection, prevention, and prosecution implemented across 30 local municipalities. World Vision is also working to improve the provision of protection services that lead to victims and survivors achieving sustainable livelihoods and community and family resilience; help advance implementation of the multi-disciplinary national referral mechanism; and raise awareness on human trafficking and risk factors for first responders, medical professionals, teachers, and other relevant community members.
Country: Moldova
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $1,426,445
Duration: 2/1/2019 – 1/30/2024
Description: IOM is working to strengthen national capacities to identify and provide tailored assistance on identifying potential victims of human trafficking and ensuring that long-term reintegration options are consolidated and expanded to facilitate safe, dignified, and productive reintegration into society. The project is working to improve comprehensive services for human trafficking victims by supporting the Government of Moldova and civil society efforts to ensure that trafficking victims are included in assistance programs and by piloting reintegration services for male victims of trafficking.
Country: Romania
Implementer: International Justice Mission (IJM)
Amount: $750,000 (+$750,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2022
Description: IJM is supporting the Romanian criminal justice system and other actors to address cases of human trafficking in a victim-centered, multi-disciplinary manner, by the following: 1) Strengthening the capacity of criminal justice system actors to employ victim-sensitive, multi-disciplinary techniques to identify, investigate, and prosecute cases of human trafficking; 2) Developing government champions and key influencers who will strengthen policies for victim protection and compensation and will support funding for the national strategy/action plans; and 3) Strengthening the quality of essential social services through increasing coordination between key frontline service providers and improving trauma-informed approaches to service provision.
Country: Ukraine
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $300,000
Duration: 11/1/2021 – 10/31/2022
Description: The project goal is to meet the urgent need to provide protection assistance to trafficking victims or those vulnerable to trafficking, such as returning migrant workers displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic. This goal will be achieved in two main ways: (1) Enhancing capacities of local social services and NGOs to provide services remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic; and (2) Facilitating access to continuous individualized protection assistance for victims of internal labor trafficking following a sharp decrease of central government protection response due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding for this project will enable IOM to provide individualized protection services such as shelter, healthcare, psychosocial counseling, legal assistance, education, and reintegration services to at least 200 beneficiaries.
NEAR EAST ASIA
Country: Algeria
Implementer: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 5/1/2022 – 5/15/2025
Description: This project is assisting the Algerian government to develop and implement SOPs to guide efforts to screen for and identify victims, as well as working through a train-the-trainer approach to assist social and health care workers in dealing with potential victims.
Country: Egypt
Implementer: International Labor Organization (ILO)
Amount: $1,500,000
Duration: 6/16/2021 – 6/15/2024
Description: ILO is strengthening the identification of victims by working with the government and local NGO partners. The organization is collaborating with the government to produce guidebooks and curriculum to help ensure labor inspectors and other first responders can better identify instances of trafficking and the victims of the crime. ILO will also advocate and provide technical assistance to amend the existing labor law to include labor protections for Egyptian and foreign domestic workers. The program also creates a fund to expand the number of shelters available to victims, will train shelter staff on how to care for victims, and will expand civil society capacity to offer vocational training and other economic reintegration services to identified victims.
Country: Iraq
Implementer: Heartland Alliance International (HAI)
Amount: $800,000
Duration: 12/1/2020 – 12/31/2022
Description: HAI is working to improve access to comprehensive protection services for victims of trafficking and their children, provide law enforcement and judicial officials the tools to utilize a victim-centered approach in investigations and prosecutions, and strengthen the legal frameworks addressing human trafficking. HAI and its partners are implementing a multi-prong strategy aligned with Iraq’s National Action Plan (NAP) to combat human trafficking to build the organizational capacity and effectiveness of government agencies and non-governmental actors.
Country: Iraq
Implementer: SEED Foundation
Amount: $1,900,000 (+$1,140,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 3/13/2020 – 3/31/2023
Description: The program builds on SEED’s casework and collaboration with the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) public justice system. This project works to combat human trafficking in Iraq by: 1) improving comprehensive services for victims of trafficking and those at risk through providing shelter and community-based case management, mental health, and legal services; 2) strengthening existing policies and procedures to enhance protections for victims of trafficking through developing referral mechanisms and collaboration with key KRG stakeholders; 3) building the capacity of first responders to identify trafficking victims and to implement the 2018 law using a victim-centered approach through training and ongoing mentorship with key actors; and, 4) raising awareness of trafficking through use of various mediums targeting potential perpetrators and vulnerable populations. SEED is partnering closely with the Baghdad-based national-level Directorate for Combating Human Trafficking in all capacity building initiatives to equip the KRG to fulfill its mandate under the Law of the Enforcement of the Anti-Trafficking Law No. 28 of 2012 that the KRG passed in July 2018. SEED also is working with civil society organizations and diplomatic missions to identify challenges, develop innovative solutions, and collaborate to implement effective and sustainable anti-trafficking programs.
Country: Jordan
Implementer: American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI)
Amount: $1,600,000 (+$650,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 3/1/2020 – 7/31/2023
Description: Through this project, ABA ROLI will work in Jordan, a Tier 2 country, to increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions by increasing human trafficking referrals and expanding the use of sophisticated investigation tools to address current trends in human trafficking crimes. The project focuses on increasing prosecutorial and judicial knowledge of human trafficking laws. Activities include evaluating gaps, facilitating coordinated action by governmental actors, establishing partnerships with NGOs in Jordan and in source countries, and implementing national victim referral mechanisms. The project will disseminate tools and knowledge designed to ensure that human trafficking penalties are commensurate with those for other serious crimes. Training participants will apply their newfound expertise to strengthen existing policies and to apply laws and mechanisms to combat human trafficking. Together, these activities seek to protect and empower repatriated victims through better identification, faster referral to service providers, and increased prosecution of perpetrators. To ensure an accurate focus on priorities and continued strong local partnerships, ABA ROLI has discussed planned activities with stakeholders, including the Ministry of Social Development, the Counter-Trafficking Unit, the Ministry of Justice, which heads Jordan’s Anti-Human Trafficking National Committee, and the Judicial Council. ABA ROLI also has aligned activities with the National Strategy and Action Plan to Prevent Human Trafficking in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 2019-2020, launched in April 2019.
Country: Lebanon
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $765,000
Duration: 7/1/2022 – 9/30/2023
Description: This project will focus on awareness of vulnerabilities and services available to migrant domestic workers, coordinating with stakeholders for improved collaboration, and providing essential services to migrant domestic workers and local partners, including assisted voluntary return and reintegration to victims of trafficking.
Country: Morocco
Implementer: American Bar Association/Fund for Justice and Education (ABA)
Amount: $825,000
Duration: 5/1/2021 – 3/31/2023
Description: ABA is helping to implement a National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and improve the criminal justice sector’s ability to investigate and prosecute human trafficking cases. ABA’s focus is on ensuring the NRM is understood and used outside of the capital region and Rabat by establishing a series of regional working groups in coordination with the National Trafficking Commission. ABA will also subgrant to NGOs and civil society organizations in three pilot locations to increase local institutional capacity.
Country: Morocco
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $922,000
Duration: 10/1/2016 – 7/31/2022
Description: UNODC is strengthening the capacity of Moroccan civil society organizations to identify and provide services to human trafficking victims by training civil society organizations, including those working with refugees and asylum seekers, foreign migrant workers, victims of gender-based violence, and child victims of violence, to identify and address human trafficking cases. They are developing Standard Operating Procedures for identifying human trafficking victims and for referring them to victim service providers, targeted to both State and non-State actors. UNODC is also building capacity amongst relevant practitioners, including criminal justice actors and victim service providers, emphasizing the rights of human trafficking victims, and promoting inter-agency cooperation to address human trafficking and streamline referral and protection procedures.
Country: Tunisia
Implementer: American Bar Association (ABA)
Amount: $1,200,000
Duration: 5/1/2021 – 2/28/2023
Description: ABA is assisting criminal justice sector actors to recognize, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking cases. Additionally, they are working to increase awareness of trafficking (and differentiate this crime from migrant smuggling) by coordinating with the National Committee against Trafficking in Persons, developing a curriculum, training of trainers, implementing the National Referral Mechanism principles, coordinating government-to-government meetings between the Government of Tunisia and two West African nations, and providing training for pro bono lawyers to provide legal support and counseling to trafficking victims.
Country: Tunisia
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $750,000 (+$250,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 12/31/2022
Description: IOM is enhancing the capacities of the government to identify, assist, and protect victims of trafficking based on anti-trafficking legislation, through a national training program on protection and assistance to victims of trafficking. They are also improving the implementation of formal procedures to screen and identify trafficking victims among vulnerable groups.
Country: Tunisia
Implementer: University of Massachusetts
Amount: $1,455,419
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 9/30/2025
Description: The University of Massachusetts—Lowell received $1,455,419 million for their project focused on reducing human trafficking among domestic workers in Tunisia by building the capacity of justice sector professionals and providing trauma-informed services for survivors. The program focuses on training and capacity-building for policymakers, legal professionals, local stakeholders, and civil society organizations, as well as an information-sharing campaign for policymakers.
SOUTH & CENTRAL ASIA
Central Asia
Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
Implementer: The Legal Center for Women’s Initiatives “Sana Sezim”
Amount: $1,250,000
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 3/31/2024
Description: Under the leadership of Sana Sezim, a local NGO based, the project is creating a network of organizations across the country to collectively strengthen national trafficking legislation, conduct information campaigns, and provide legal assistance to victims of trafficking.
Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024
Description: UNODC is strengthening anti-trafficking efforts in Central Asia by developing training for law enforcement to proactively identify trafficking victims, enhance partnerships with prosecutors and judges, and respond to new developments in the Kyrgyzstani criminal code as noted in the 2020 TIP report. This project will promote transnational collaboration between law enforcement parties in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to identify and protect Kyrgyzstani and other vulnerable migrants in Central Asia. This project also includes the establishment of an informal law enforcement network. To advance these training efforts, UNODC will work to develop scalable Russian language training materials for law enforcement that incorporates victim-centered/trauma-informed approaches.
Country: Uzbekistan
Implementer: IOM
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 05/01/2022 – 4/30/2025
Description: This project provides initial victim-centered psychosocial services in government shelters while outlining a plan to identify local resources and enhance partner government ownership.
South Asia
Country: Bangladesh
Implementer: Stichting Terre des Hommes Nederland (TdH)
Amount: $285,000
Duration: 12/1/2021 – 11/30/2023
Description: As the pandemic progresses, the trend in human trafficking continues to worsen as the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions threaten girls’ and women’s livelihoods and shutdown schools, services, and economic activities. In Bangladesh, local government Counter-Trafficking Committees (CTCs) are used to identify victims at the grassroots level, assist with reporting, and referral to social and legal services. But due to pandemic restrictions, they are no longer able to meet and support victims face to face. Funding for this project will enable TdH to establish a one-stop digital service center for reporting and referral on sex and labor trafficking. This center will include a project team of psychosocial counselors and IT specialists to provide in-person and remote consultations for CTCs. The center will also train 600 service providers (CTC members, NGOs, schoolteachers, and other anti-trafficking stakeholders) to use new online and mobile tools, including how to refer and report trafficking cases. CTCs will also be able to meet safely at this service center (while still respecting COVID-19 pandemic prevention measures) to utilize computers, telephones, and training materials, funded through the TIP Office grant.
Country: Bhutan
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 7/1/2019 – 3/31/2023
Description: UNODC is working cooperatively with eight different central government entities and parts of local government to address deficiencies in Bhutanese legislation, to equip police to better investigate trafficking cases, and to improve information sharing to target criminals and corrupt leaders and disrupt human trafficking. UNODC is also working to improve the skills and capacity of the Bhutanese government to investigate and prosecute human trafficking.
Country: India
Implementer: (ICMEC)
Amount: $990,000 (+$50,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 5/1/2022 – 4/30/2026
Description: This project replicates ICMEC’s successful partnership model with Indian law enforcement to create and support Online Child Sexual Exploitation Stand-Alone Police Units.
Country: India
Implementer: The Freedom Fund
Amount: $390,250
Duration: 3/1/2021 – 9/30/2022
Description: The Freedom Fund is leveraging a larger existing program in light of the present crisis to bring about systemic change and reduce prevalence of child trafficking within the targeted areas. The project objectives include a strong enforcement response to prevent the return of children to workshops, victim-centered repatriation, and ensuring access to government services. These objectives are being achieved through: awareness raising campaigns and trainings, an online database, official documentation of the children, and access to the state’s witness protection program. The project will reach 1,100 trafficked children within the Bihar-to-Jaipur corridor in twelve months ensuring they are identified and removed from the exploitative situation, receive legal assistance before repatriation, and leave Jaipur with full documentation. Children and their families in Bihar are receiving assistance to access services and entitlements to prevent re-trafficking and foster school enrollment.
Country: India
Implementer: Justice Ventures International (JVI)
Amount: $450,754 (+ $400,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 10/1/2019 – 9/30/2022
Description: JVI is establishing justice hubs – small centers composed of legal, protection, and social services staff to conduct casework and mobilize the legal community to fight injustice, including human trafficking, in India. The hubs also serve as walk-in resource centers where trafficking victims and other vulnerable individuals, NGOs, and their lawyers can gain access to information and technology. JVI is working closely with a wide range of NGOs fighting human trafficking in Delhi, East Champaran (Bihar), Gaya (Bihar), Purnea (Bihar), and Murshidabad (West Bengal).
Country: Maldives
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 4/1/2020 – 11/30/2022
Description: IOM is working with the Government of the Maldives to combat human trafficking by strengthening collaboration between key stakeholders, improving the country’s legislation so that it is in alignment with international standards and best practices, and building a functioning national referral mechanism. It is designed to transition Maldives away from a recipient of foreign assistance and instead ensure the Maldives, takes ownership and provides adequate resources for its own human trafficking response. Key outcomes include establishing a glidepath to country leadership over a trafficking in persons hotline, nationwide awareness plan and universal trafficking in persons protection services. Limited training and capacity development for police, prosecutors and judges is also planned, in coordination with outer U.S. government programs.
Country: Nepal
Implementer: ECPAT Luxembourg (ECPAT)
Amount: $1,500,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2023
Description: ECPAT is focusing on improving protection, prosecution, and standards of care in children’s homes (including orphanages where child trafficking is potentially present) by strengthening provincial and local anti-trafficking and child protection structures and mechanisms. ECPAT is working with regulatory bodies at all three levels (national, provincial, and local) formed under the Children’s Act 2018 and those to be created through amendment of the Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act (HTTCA) 2007, to develop or update regulatory frameworks governing child institutionalization and human trafficking. Survivor-civic engaged accountability measures will be set up to pressure government and key stakeholders for a pro-active response to ensure that children’s homes are monitored by authorities, operate under minimum standards, and integrate adequate protection mechanisms against child trafficking and risks of voluntourism and all persons involved in crimes are prosecuted regardless of their status and position. The project activities will support for the amendment of the HTTCA and its Rules in line with Palermo Protocol, including removal of the HTTCA provision that allows victims to be fined if they fail to appear in court or be held criminally liable for providing testimony contradicting their previous statement.
Country: Nepal
Implementer: Terre des Hommes (Tdh)
Amount: $600,000
Duration: 7/1/2021 – 6/30/2023
Description: In Nepal, government officials and anti-trafficking stakeholders expressed alarm at the sharp spike of human trafficking cases despite COVID-19 lockdowns, especially for children. There have been 900,000 more calls to the National Childline for Distress Calls between March and August 2020 than the same period in 2019 and an increase in reports of high psychosocial distress in child survivors. Tdh, in partnership with two Nepal-based organizations, is working to ensure children at-risk of and child victims of human trafficking in the border regions of Nepal have increased access to responsive protection services. Tdh is strengthening the capacity of government officials, civil society organizations, and service providers on identification and referral measures as well as psychosocial support for child victims.
Country: Pakistan
Implementer: Johns Hopkins
Amount: $ 1,299,972
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 9/30/2025
Description: Johns Hopkins proposed a unique program design to address labor trafficking in the brick kiln industry, incorporating a randomized control trial. The specific interventions include: registration and formalization of brick kiln industries and workers (Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) registration, birth registration for children of brick kiln workers, and Sindh Employee Social Security Institutions (SESSI) enrollment); 2) provision and access to legal aid for workers in debt bondage; 3) provision of non-formal education for children and occupational health and safety support and education; and 4) provision of awareness-raising and capacity building trainings and workshops for stakeholders. Four randomly selected sites in Sindh Province will receive intervention that targets brick kiln workers with direct services along with awareness-raising and capacity-building activities for law enforcement, bar associations, trade unions, and other key stakeholders.
Country: Sri Lanka
Implementer: IOM
Amount: $1,100,000 (+$30,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 5/1/2022 – 4/30/2025
Description: This project will build on previous efforts in-country with a focus on further increasing the capacity of the Government of Sri Lanka to implement its new National Strategic Action Plan (NSAP).
WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Countries: Aruba, Brazil, Colombia, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $3,120,000
Duration: 10/1/2019 – 3/31/2023
Project Description: The TIP Office has invested $3.12 million to enhance the regional criminal justice response to human trafficking among migration flows involving Venezuelans by working in eight countries across South America and the Caribbean at regional and local levels to identify victims, prosecute human trafficking cases, and prevent the crime. Over three years the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is building capacity to improve victim identification and national referral mechanisms, sharing information with judicial authorities about criminal networks and individuals associated with human trafficking, and strengthening international coordination and cooperation by promoting new investigations and prosecutions through establishing liaisons between national coordination mechanisms and judicial authorities focused on human trafficking.
Country: Regional (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico)
Implementer: Pan American Development Fund (PADF)
Amount: $1,250,000 (+$2,250,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 7/1/2022 – 6/30/2025
Description: This program seeks to develop a multi-country strategy to improve capacity to identify victims of TIP and enhance protocols, processes, and strategies to protect migrants and other vulnerable individuals.
Country: Belize
Implementer: RET International
Amount: $1,390,000
Duration: 7/1/2021 – 6/30/2025
Description: RET International is coordinating with the Government of Belize to develop Standard Operating Procedures to strengthen the institutional capacity of existing shelters to support and care for trafficking victims. RET International is also partnering with the government and civil society to create a task force and implement effective coordinated efforts in combating human trafficking.
Country: Brazil
Implementer: The Freedom Fund
Amount: $1,300,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 9/30/2025
Description: Freedom Fund received $1.3 million to focus on efforts to reduce child sex trafficking in Recife and Olinda, Brazil. This project will promote government and civil society coordination in preventing child sex trafficking, develop and share evidence on the prevalence of child sex trafficking with multi-sectoral partners, and increase child protection through comprehensive survivor-informed care and prevention efforts.
Country: Brazil
Implementer: Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS)
Amount: $5,000,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 9/30/2024
Description: In 2021, GFEMS received $5,000,000 for programming to reduce forced labor in Brazil’s agriculture sector through interventions targeting the coffee industry in the state of Minas Gerais. GFEMS’ work in Brazil will comprehensively address critical gaps with a group of coordinated, synergistic interventions, including a grievance mechanism available to workers and a decision support tool to improve the targeting of labor inspections.
Country: Brazil
Implementer: Pan American Development Foundation (PADF)
Amount: $8,528,500
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 9/30/2024
Description: PADF received an $8.5 million award to reduce forced labor in the cattle industry in Pará, Brazil through coordinated efforts that include awareness-raising, building law enforcement and employer capacity, and increasing access to victim-centered protection services. PADF also works to increase government capacity to collect data, to enhance coordination among agencies, and provide victim-centered services. All these efforts are tailored based on future research that PADF will conduct to better understand the nature of forced labor in the cattle industry.
Country: Brazil
Implementer: Stanford University
Amount: $1,300,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 9/30/2026
Description: The Stanford University Human Trafficking Data Lab received $1.3 million to develop and deploy advanced technology to detect forced labor in the charcoal industry in Pará, Brazil. Additional aims include the development of broad multispecialty teams as well as advocacy to provide support for survivors and vulnerable communities.
Country: Brazil
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $2,500,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 09/30/2023
Description: UNODC received $2.5 million to develop a better understanding of forced labor within the gold mining sector of Pará, Brazil, filling a critical knowledge gap and informing future anti-trafficking efforts. Research will include a prevalence study, analysis of the supply and value chains of gold mining, and an examination of the convergence of forced labor with other criminal activities.
Country: Colombia
Implementer: American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education (ABA)
Amount: $2,000,000
Duration: 6/1/2022 – 12/31/2024
Description: This program strengthens the justice sector’s prosecution of human trafficking cases in Cartagena through improving institutional practices for investigating and prosecuting TIP cases, identifying and protecting victims, and increasing institutional awareness of TIP.
Country: Costa Rica
Implementer: New York University (NYU)
Amount: $1,658,203
Duration: 5/1/2022 – 4/30/2026
Description: Building on the research of the Prevalence Reduction Innovation Forum, this project will work to reduce forced labor in the fishing industry of Costa Rica.
Country: Costa Rica
Implementer: Warnath Group
Amount: $15,000,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2025
Description: The Warnath Group received a $15 million award in 2020 to combat child sex trafficking in the Guanacaste and Puntarenas provinces of Costa Rica. The Warnath Group is working on prevalence measurement in these provinces and programming activities that focus on intensive training and technical assistance for Costa Rican government officials, particularly criminal justice professionals and social service providers.
Country: Dominican Republic
Implementer: International Justice Mission (IJM)
Amount: $725,000
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 4/30/2023
Description: The goal of this project is to utilize IJM’s experiential knowledge from collaborative casework and strong institutional partnerships to assist the Dominican Public Ministry and the National Police of the Dominican Republic in the proactive identification, investigation, and prosecution of sex trafficking cases. The project will seek to secure measurable deterrence and a significant reduction in the prevalence of sex trafficking in the country by the consistent apprehension and effective prosecution of perpetrators. IJM will focus on child sex trafficking victims and will also assist in the recovery of adults. The desired impact of the proposed project is that the Dominican public justice system provides an effective response to sex trafficking that ensures the sensitive treatment of survivors and results in a deterrent effect that reduces the prevalence of the crime throughout the country.
Country: Dominican Republic
Implementer: Heartland Alliance International
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 7/1/2022 – 6/30/2025
Description: This program reduces the risk of trafficking and revictimization by preventing, protecting, and prosecuting trafficking cases and ensuring access to specialized shelters for human trafficking survivors, comprehensive services, and compensation.
Country: Ecuador
Implementer: Organization of the American States (OAS)
Amount: $1,500,000
Duration: 3/1/2020 – 2/28/2023
Description: The OAS is working to improve human and institutional capacities in Ecuador to address and prevent human trafficking, as well as to protect vulnerable populations and assist victims, by doing the following: 1) Improve the legal framework and policies related to human trafficking, including the development of specific anti-human trafficking legislation; 2) Enhance government capacity to prevent trafficking in persons, assist and protect victims, and prosecute trafficking in persons cases; and 3) Strengthen the capacity of community-based organizations to identify labor and sex trafficking victims among vulnerable populations, especially Venezuelan migrants, women, children and LGBTQI+ individuals.
Country: Guatemala
Implementer: Pan American Development Fund (PADF)
Amount: $3,300,000
Duration: 10/1/2018 – 10/30/2022
Description: PADF is working to strengthen the capacity of government, civil society, and communities in Guatemala to prevent and respond to trafficking in persons. PADF has expanded their existing efforts into the department of Quetzaltenango to consolidate their work across the Western Highlands and increase their access to strategic actors, including the Attorney General and specialized courts for trafficking in persons. PADF continues to strengthen state and civil society capacity to prevent human trafficking by identifying and providing comprehensive specialized services to trafficking victims, including for boys, adolescent, and adult victims.
Country: Guatemala
Implementer: U.S. Department of State International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) Bureau
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2023
Description: INL-Guatemala (INL-G) is strengthening the quality of human trafficking criminal investigations, both labor and sex trafficking, building the capacity of the forensic investigative police service to effectively investigate and prosecute human trafficking cases in Guatemala, and enhancing the inter-institutional coordination between the Guatemala Public Ministry and the Judicial Branch. Through capacity building trainings, INL-G is also addressing the need for more victim prevention and protection intervention strategies for law enforcement.
Countries: Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico
Implementer: Covenant House International (CHI)
Amount: $3,967,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Description: CHI strengthens protection and prevention services for migrants, trafficking survivors, and youth at-risk in Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The project builds the capacity of protection and prevention services in each country, enhancing data collection and analytics efforts, replicating CHI’s service model among regional partners, and broadening services in Guatemala to include adolescent boys.
Countries: Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico
Implementer: Covenant House International (CHI)
Amount: $220,000
Duration: 10/01/2021 – 09/30/2022
Description: CHI builds the capacity of specialized service staff (e.g., Youth Counselors, Attorneys, Medical Coordinator, Social Workers, and Family Reintegration Specialists) in local Casas, residential support facilities, to provide 400 children and youth with case management services; assist 200 survivors with legal services to protect youth and prosecute traffickers; provide 300 youth with training through human trafficking prevention workshops; and prevent the re-victimization of 175 current residents by facilitating safe family reintegration during this time of increased vulnerability due to the global pandemic.
Country: Honduras
Implementer: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 6/1/2021 – 5/31/2023
Description: UNODC is coordinating with national authorities to develop and implement a specialized training and mentoring program focused on human trafficking for the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The program is strengthening the skills and building the capacity of prosecutors, law enforcement, and other public officials at the local and national levels to effectively investigate and prosecute human trafficking cases in a victim-centered and trauma-informed manner.
Country: Jamaica
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $664,904
Duration: 10/1/2018 – 12/31/2022
Description: IOM, in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania, is increasing efforts to prevent child trafficking in Jamaica by conducting nationwide research on its nature and prevalence in different sectors to provide the Government of Jamaica and the public with information that clearly articulates the features of child trafficking in Jamaica.
Country: Jamaica
Implementer: Warnath Group
Amount: $2,397,000
Duration: 10/1/2018 – 7/31/2023
Description: The Warnath Group is building the capacity of Jamaican law enforcement and victim service providers to increase the number of victim-centered investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of child trafficking cases through tailored training and technical assistance, as well as support the Government of Jamaica to strengthen and maintain data collection on child trafficking.
Country: Jamaica
Implementer: Winrock International
Amount: $3,700,000
Duration: 10/1/2018 – 12/31/2022
Description: Winrock International and its implementing partners are working to strengthen government and civil society capacity to identify and provide comprehensive services to more child trafficking victims from identification through protective care, community reintegration, and long-term follow up services and increase efforts to prevent child trafficking by developing and strengthening community-based mechanisms to raise awareness.
Country: Paraguay
Implementer: Partners of the Americas, Inc. (Partners)
Amount: $950,000
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 2/28/2023
Description: Partners is working to strengthen the capacity of a variety of actors in Paraguay (e.g., civil society organizations and public and private sector) to prevent human trafficking and to process cases of trafficking in persons and to provide protection for victims. They are doing this by training network stakeholders on the identification of trafficking victims and victim service provisions. Partners is also developing comprehensive training manuals for victim care providers and, with the participation of representatives from state institutions and civil society organizations, developing a referral mechanism among victim service providers and government stakeholders.
Country: Peru
Implementer: Capital Humano y Social Alternativo (CHS)
Amount: $530,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2022
Description: CHS works to ensure victims of trafficking in Madre in Dios and Puno have access to comprehensive, specialized services for their successful reintegration into society, and that anti-trafficking policies and laws are developed and/or strengthened towards the elimination of trafficking persons in mining and other commodity supply chains in Peru.
Country: Peru
Implementer: American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI)
Amount: $1,900,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 11/30/2024
Description: ABA ROLI works to strengthen the capacity of justice sector officials in Madre de Dios and Puno to effectively investigate, prosecute, and adjudicate human trafficking cases through a victim-centered and trauma-informed approach. The objectives and activities focus on increasing investigations and prosecutions of TIP cases for adult and child trafficking crimes, training and knowledge building, and increasing coordination efforts between justice sector operatives.
Country: Peru
Implementer: International Labor Organization (ILO)
Amount: $6,900,000
Duration: 10/1/2017 – 5/31/2023
Description: The ILO and its sub-recipients aim to improve the capacity of the Peruvian government to reduce child trafficking by contributing to stronger coordination among a wide array of stakeholders, harmonizing current initiatives and bringing an innovative approach to combat child trafficking efficiently, while also ensuring victims’ needs are met through the provision of specialized services.
GLOBAL
Countries: India, Kenya, Philippines, Uganda, Vietnam
Implementer: Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS)
Amount: $21,000,000
Duration: 10/1/2018 – 9/30/2022
Description: In 2017, J/TIP gave the first PEMS award of $25 million to the GFEMS. In 2018, GFEMS received an additional $21 million dollars to scale up these programming efforts. With these initial awards, GFEMS has administered sub-grants in India, Kenya, the Philippines, Uganda, and Vietnam that address sex trafficking, forced labor of overseas workers, and forced labor in the construction industry.
Country: Global
Implementer: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Amount: $5,610,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2025
Description: IPA received a $5.6 million award in 2020 to increase the evidence base on the effectiveness of anti-trafficking interventions around the world. IPA is working with partner organizations to conduct impact evaluations and randomized control trials testing the effectiveness of anti-trafficking programming.
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $1,700,000
Duration: 10/1/2017 – 9/30/2022
Description: IOM is contributing to improving the effectiveness of responses to trafficking in emergency contexts by building the capacity of first responders to address trafficking in humanitarian and development settings, including all actors that are engaging in a response to trafficking in persons in emergency contexts. This project is known as “TIP in Crisis.”
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $4,650,000
Duration: 4/1/2019 – 3/31/2023
Description: The TIP Office maintains a cooperative agreement with IOM for the purpose of providing short- to medium-term direct assistance to victims of human trafficking on an emergency, case-by-case basis. All assistance is provided in close coordination with the TIP Office, NGO partners, and local IOM missions, where applicable. Assistance may include, but is not limited to the following: food, shelter, and other basic necessities; psychological and counseling services; medical assistance; legal support; arrival and reintegration assistance; transportation; or other immediate needs. This project is known as the “Emergency Victim Assistance” fund.
Implementer: UNODC
Amount: $500,000
Duration: 5/1/2022 – 10/31/23
Description: The project will aim to promote coherent and evidence-based anti-human trafficking standards and policies across UN organs and treaty bodies.
Implementer: International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC)
Amount: $1,000,000
Duration: 6/1/2022 – 5/31/2027
Description: ICMEC will use a multi-lingual Learning Management System (LMS) to provide virtual training courses in combatting Online Child Sexual Exploitation to 10,000 law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, social workers, immigration officers and customs officials in 100 countries so that a core group of trained professionals from each discipline in each country can prevent OCSE where possible and investigate, prosecute, and convict offenders when necessary.
RESEARCH
Implementer: American Bar Association/Rule of Law Initiative (ABA)
Countries: Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Morocco
Amount: $850,000
Duration: 10/1/2020 – 7/30/2022
Description: ABA is studying domestic servitude in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region to 1) document specific enforcement and intervention programs in MENA destination countries and determine their impact on domestic servitude; and 2) identify regional strategies and actions to enhance the visibility of domestic servitude and that provide victims in individual MENA countries with greater opportunities for protection and justice. In partnership with local stakeholders, including judges, prosecutors, police, Ministry officials, and service providers from the region, ABA is producing a study to increase prevention of domestic servitude, prosecution of cases, and protection of victims.
Implementer: The Freedom Fund
Countries: Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates
Amount: $660,000
Duration: 10/1/2019 – 9/30/2022
Description: The Freedom Fund and its partner London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are conducting research on responsible recruitment of low-skilled migrant workers in Ethiopia. The research considers the full continuum of actors in the recruitment process related to migration from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as a case study, analyzing and comparing global models of recruitment. Researchers are interviewing policymakers and advisors, private labor recruiters, community leaders, prospective migrant workers, and trafficking survivors to assess the viability of promising non-governmental recruitment initiatives, including worker-driven, community-led, and private sector schemes. This project includes participatory action research with migrants, returnees, and survivors of trafficking and their families and expects to develop responsible recruitment models for migrant workers in Ethiopia.
TRAINING and TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Implementer: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amount: $2,443,944
Duration: 10/1/2016 – 9/30/2024
Description: IOM delivers short-term training and technical assistance (T&TA) that address governments’ capacity-building needs and aims to improve the effectiveness of government responses to all forms of trafficking in persons. Beneficiaries of T&TA may include host government agencies, criminal justice practitioners, and/or NGOs that are essential for creating a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy and victim assistance network. IOM has particular expertise in victim assistance and protection, and works in collaboration with anti-trafficking experts at the country level, IOM Missions around the world, and relevant US Embassies.
Implementer: Warnath Group, LLC
Amount: $1,590,000 (+$230,000 Cost Extension)
Duration: 6/15/2018 – 12/13/2022
Description: Leveraging a diverse team of experienced human trafficking experts, the Warnath Group provides targeted training and technical assistance (T&TA) to advance the understanding and application of new skills and promising practices in combating human trafficking. T&TA activities, which may include assistance with legislation, criminal justice responses, victim identification and assistance, data collection and analysis and other topics, aim to improve the effectiveness of responses by governments in countries identified by the TIP Office.
Implementer: United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Amount: $750,000
Duration: 5/1/2022 – 10/31/2023
Description: Through a cooperative agreement, UNODC strengthens the implementation of a comprehensive response to all forms of trafficking in persons in selected countries through the delivery of training and technical assistance to key stakeholders. This program may assist countries in all regions of the world by developing and strengthening national strategies against TIP, bringing national legal frameworks in line with international standards, and/or developing capacities of criminal justice practitioners and/or other key stakeholders through the delivery of national and regional workshops.