PROJECT TITLE: VICTOR - Victims of Child Trafficking Our Responsibility
COUNTRIES: Balkan Countries
OVERALL OBJECTIVE: To establish a partnership amongst a broad range of actors, both public and private, and particularly to improve collaboration between NGOs that work in the respective field, aimed at strengthening capacities towards generating common actions related to the priorities set up in the EU Strategy towards Eradication of THB, particularly to Identifying, protecting and assisting victims of trafficking, Stepping up the prevention of THB, as well as Enhanced coordination and cooperation among key actors and policy coherence.
Specific objectives:
- To promote and develop coordination, cooperation and mutual understanding among law enforcement agencies, other national authorities and civil society in combating trafficking in children;
- To improve situation in the field of identification of children victims/possible victims of trafficking by training of actors likely to come into contact with them;
- To step up for prevention of trafficking in children through awareness raising activities targeting vulnerable groups of children at risk.
ACTIVITIES:
1. Trainings for actors working in fields where they are most likely to come into contact with children victims/potential victims of THB (law enforcement, health care workers, judiciary, labour inspectors, NGOs). (EPLO role: Olga Themeli and Stamatina Poulou participate in 5 trainings of 2 days each);
2. Information desks on Child Trafficking, a pilot NGO in-house model, for a period of 6 months, operational in four countries. (The activity was suggested by the EPLO to the leaders);
3. Workshops aimed at organizing and evaluating the pilot work of information desks, as well as developing recommendations for EU Guidelines for the identification of victims of child trafficking. (EPLO role: Olga Themeli and Stamatina Poulou participate in 2 workshops of one day each);
4. Raising awareness campaigns: in countries of origin-addressed to potential children victims; in countries of destination, aimed at reducing of demand and designed to address potential “clients”;
5. Networking activities-creation of a website and a development of South-eastern European Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (SEEC), promotion of a project’s publicity material through local networks.
FUNDING AGENCY: European Commission
LEADER: Smile of the Child - Greece
PARTNERS: Southeast European Law Enforcement Centre (international organization), Nadja Center Foundation (Bulgaria), National Commission Combating THB (Bulgaria), National Agency against THB (Romania), Save the Children (Romania), Terre des Hommes (Budapest), Society KLJUC (Slovenia), Permanent Representation of France to the UN & IO in Vienna, ASTRA (Serbia), La Strada (Moldova), Child Well Being Fund (Ukraine), Greek Ministry of Justice, Greek Ministry of Public Order and Citizens Protection, Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Subcontractor: EPLO.
TIME FRAME: 2013-2014