Transcript Regional Anti-Trafficking Network

(Networking/ Vigilance
Committee )
- Best Practices Presentation by
Vasudha Mishra
Secretary
DWCD
Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
Overview- Andhra Pradesh
 17 Districts-Vizianagaram, Vishakhapatnam, East
Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam,
Chittoor, Kadapa, Anantapur, Kurnool, Hyderabad,
Medak, Nalgonda, Khammam, Nizamabad and
Warangal
Overview- Andhra Pradesh
 Routes and Destinations of Trafficking
DELHI
Daund
Anantpur
DELHI
Bangalore
Hyderabad
Cuddapah
Guntakal
DELHI
Warangal
Tirupati
Chittoor
Vijayawada
DELHI
Warangal
Kurnool
Warangal
DELHI
Vizag
DELHI
East Godavari
West Godavari
Hyderabad
DELHI
Response to the Problem
Rehab Strategies
- Integration of
rescued/
vulnerable girls/
women
through SHGs
- SWADHAR
- Grant In Aid
- Linkages to DRDA/
APSACS etc.
GOMS No.1
Rehabilitation
Prevention
Strategies
•Community
Vigilante groups
Prevention •Balika Sanghas
•Kala Jathas
• Training of
Stakeholders
FOCUS
AREAS
Rescue
Rescue Strategies
-Promoting rescue through information/surveillance of CVGs
-Linkages with police in destination areas
- Motivation and Preparation of communities by awareness generation
Response to the Problem- Overview
 Formation of Community Vigilant Groups (CVG)
 25006 CVGs formed across the state at
community level
 CVG consists of CDPO, Supervisor, Anganwadi
Worker, Mother’s Committee Member, Adolescent
Girls,
Sarpanch,
Revenue
Official
(Village
Secretary), Kulapeddalu (2 No.s), Police
 CVGs trained as Anti-trafficking Committees
 Role of CVG
• Monitoring and surveillance of communities
• Linkages to Police, DWCD, DRDA (SHGs)
Adolescent girls organized in Vigilant groups &
awakened on issue of trafficking
Response to the Problem- Overview
 Formation of Balika Sanghas
 9315 Sanghas formed
 Balika
Sanghas
formed
with
out-of-school
adolescent girls
 Also represented in the CVGs
 Nearly 30,000 girls trained on social issues,
health, and nutrition
Response to the Problem- Overview
 Formation
of
State
and
District
Coordination
Committees for prevention of trafficking as per
G.O.Ms.No.1
 Formation of Anti-trafficking squads in every
district headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police
and supported by WCD officials, Juvenile welfare
officials and NGOs by the police department
 Formation of Anti-trafficking cells at District Head
quarter
and
Mandal
Head
Quarter
by
the
Department of WCD involving the WCD Officials &
NGOs
Response to the Problem- Overview
 Initial relief to rescued victims was enhanced
to Rs.5000/-to Rs.10,000/-
 SWADHAR Scheme- 26 Shelter homes have
been sanctioned by Government of India
under the scheme

The Department is conducting
workshops and reviews as follows
o
various
District level workshops were conducted
in collaboration with UNICEF in every
district (23 districts) from March to July
2005 all over Andhra Pradesh to
promote inter departmental linkage,
police trainings organized with Women
Development
&
Child
Welfare
Department/ local NGO’s on ITPA, Antitrafficking issues
o A 3 days training workshop from 4-7-2005 to
6-7-2005 in collaboration with UNICEF was
conducted at, Hyderabad for field functionaries
working with child victims of trafficking and
commercial sexual exploitation.
The training
module developed by Nirmala Nikethan, School
of Social Work, Mumbai was translated into
Telugu Language. Trainings were conducted to
Instructors of Anganwadi Training Centers and
also to sensitize caregivers of children homes,
state and service homes including 26 NGOs
o A workshop from 28th to 29th September 2005 was
conducted in the Directorate with the assistance of
UNICEF to develop the modules to Anganwadi workers
and Anti-trafficking committees on Key messages on
the prevention of trafficking and activities to be takenup by the Adolescent Girls and Balika Mandals with
field functionaries and related departmental staff
o Training module has been developed for NGOs and
field level functionaries all over AP on social issues like
trafficking, child marriages, dowry etc., in collaboration
with NIPCCD. Trainings have been conducted at
Bangalore and Hyderabad.
o Social issues were included in the curriculum of
refresher course being given to CDPOs / Supervisors
and AWWs at field level and also to instructors of
MLTCs and AWTCs.
 A.P.Police academy has conducted workshops for police
officials on trafficking in persons & Role of police as
follows:
 Resolutions passed at Vijayawada workshop in
November 2005 on amendment of G.O.Ms.No.1
 Resolutions & some suggestions made in Anantapur on
October 2005
 Resolutions passed in the workshop on strategies to
deal with gender violence at Hyderabad in March 2006
 The Toll free help line at Hyderabad is 1800, 425,
2908
Regional Anti-Trafficking Network
Anantapur
Chittoor
Kadapa
Andhra Pradesh
Kadapa
Anantapur
Rayachoti
Kadiri
Chittoor
Madanapalle
Trafficking from the Rayalaseema Region- An
Overview
 Trafficking predominantly in three districts
- Anantapur, Chittoor, Kadapa
 Trafficking of minors and women linked to migration,
debt bondage, and socio-cultural tolerance of
trafficking
 Girls in socially and economically disadvantaged
groups are especially vulnerable to trafficking
Origins of the Network
 DWCD/
UNICEF
started
a
pilot
project
with
STHREE (NGO) for prevention of trafficking from
Anantapur district
 In order to check the operations of traffickers in
the region across 3 districts, the project expanded
to cover Kadapa and Chittoor districts by formation
of the Regional Network with participation of three
District Collectors
 The same networking is replicated in coastal
regions covering 6 districts Guntur, Prakasam,
Nellore,
Godavari
Krishna,
East
Godavari
and
West
Objectives of the Regional Network
 Identification of vulnerable communities
 Capacity building of CVGs and Adolescent girls
 Enhanced Law enforcement /data base on traffickers
 Convergence with Income Generation Programmes,
Judiciary and other frontline agencies
 Standardization of approach and strategy
Organizational Structure of the Regional Network
Regional Network
Collector- Anantapur
District
Resource Person
Mandal
Resource Persons
CVGs
Balika Sanghas
Civil Society Organizations
Community at large
ChairpersonCollector- Kadapa
Collector- Chittoor
District
Resource Person
District
Resource Person
Mandal
Resource Persons
CVGs
Balika Sanghas
Civil Society Organizations
Community at large
Mandal
Resource Persons
CVGs
Balika Sanghas
Civil Society Organizations
Community at large
Key strategies
 Community mobilization
 Law enforcement
 Rehabilitation
 Convergence
Key Messages

Key messages focus on Prevention of
trafficking by way of vigilance, awareness,
encouraging
reportage
and
law
enforcement
Key messages for Police
• The police should be on a vigil in locations
prone to trafficking
• Should monitor the movements-of strangers in
the villages
• Look out for suspicious movement of girls at
places such as, highways, dhabas, railway
stations, and bus stations
• Police must register and FIR under section 5 or
6 of the Immoral Traffic (prevention) ACT, 1956
and 336, 366A, 367, 370 to 373 of the Indian
Penal code
Inter state Anti trafficking Initiatives with DWCDPolice-NGOs
Key messages for Family
 Check background of people offering jobs,
incentives, marriages proposals
• Families should take good care of their children in terms
of clothing food their concerns, and take their points of
view seriously
• The family should ensure that their daughters are safe
and not exposed to potential traffickers
• All marriages in the village should be registered, and at
least one photograph of the married couple be kept
safely
• The girls family must keep safely the correct address
and contact of the groom’s family
• Watch out for deceit and resist sale of girls
• Calling child line, Help line and the Police in case of
suspicion
• Training girls to be more vigilant and aware (Balika
Mandals)
Key messages for Community
• The Panchayat can appoint a group of women and
men from the village, and can assign the SHGs with
the responsibility of keeping track of strangers who
may be visiting the community the frequency and
purpose of such visits; and the households that they
visit
• Monitor the marriages with outsiders, they can
ensure that the visitors are not traffickers
• Keep a close watch on the movement of girls and
young women from the villages
• On visitors to the villages; and follow up on any such
visitors who frequently visit a particular house
Community Mobilization

Wide publicity and campaigns through Kalajathas,
Workshops and meetings
•
Communities are provided with information on
trafficking, CSE, human rights, child rights, law,
Consequences of HIV/ AIDS and Other aspects
•
Skills
on
how
to
prevent
trafficking,
skills
in
reporting, and effectively using the enforcement
system (police) to tackle the problem.
Kalajatha Parakuvandlapalli
Village
Tanakal Mandal
Kishora Balikala Mela,
Kadiri
Balika Sangha Training on Trafficking and
Commercial Sexual Exploitation(CSE)
 Girls from Balika Sanghas Trained on
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•
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•
Social and gender issues
Trafficking and CSE
How to address the problem at community level
Skills to protect themselves from traffickers and
trafficking
Life skills
Girls engaged in social mapping on the
issue of Trafficking
Work with Adolescent Girls
 Campaign with more than 6000 Adolescent Girls
 School
and
College
going
girls
covered
in
Campaign
 Focus on Trafficking of Girls, Early Marriages
 Adolescent girls were informed about:
•
Their rights
•
Severity of the problem of trafficking, and its effects
•
Skills to address the problem at community level
the
Work with Government Officials

Training of Government functionaries-frontline
staff of various Government departments
-
Department of women and child development
-
District rural development authority
-
Medical & Health
-
Police
Work with Police
Training on Trafficking and CSE

-
CIs, SIs, Constables Trained on trafficking and
related issues
-
Impact
• Appointing special officer and staff- working on
trafficking
• Promotion of “Community friendly police”
concept
• Focus on prosecution and conviction of brokers
and traffickers
Work with PRIs
 Sarpanchs, ZPTC, MPTC Members trained on
•
Trafficking and CSE
•
Addressing the problem at community level
•
Active participation in prevention of trafficking
•
Monitoring and surveillance
 Impact
•
Suggestions by the participants for action
•
Registration of marriages
•
Identification of and punishment to Brokers
Community Participation
 Rendered counseling
Adolescent girls
to
the
village
elders
&
 Constituting committee consisting of NGO, Doctor,
Legal advisor, WD &CW Department Officials
 Involving the male youth members of the
community for obtaining information well in
advance on traffickers to take stringent action
 Exchanging information periodically among the
three districts for uniform and common line of
action by organizing Workshops
 Training to the police personnel and
constables in dealing with these cases
women
Rehabilitation activities taken up in Regional
Network
 A Regional Network was set up in July 2004 with
three District Collectors, Superintendent of Police,
Project Directors of DRDA and WD&CW, CPO of
UNICEF,Medical and Health consultants, and NGOs to
get information about traffickers and their chain.
Example : An overview of Anantapur District
interventions are placed below
Beneficiary VOCSETs in kafe khushi a food
center established as economic rehabilitation
unit
Self Help Groups formation
 Out of 62 people who returned from
Pune/Mumbai, are formed into 5 - Self Help
Groups (SHGs) and Rs.1.20 lakhs was
sanctioned as a Revolving Fund
Income Generating Activities
 62 victims who returned from Pune and Mumbai
were sanctioned Community Investment Fund to a
tune of Rs. 5.16 lakhs under Income Generating
Activities.
 Rs.3.20 Crores under Indira Kranthi Patham budget
wherein Rs.47.90 lakhs was earmarked under
Institutional and Capacity Building component and
Rs.271 lakhs for Community Investment Fund for
Income Generating Activities in which 50% of the
amount is earmarked exclusively for S.C., S.T.,
women members of the Self Help Groups.
Preference to all Government Schemes
Housing Pattas
 In Anantapur two spells of assignment of land
programme was taken up during January 2005 and
August 2005 in which 346 ST women beneficiaries
were provided land pattas to a tune of 766.05 acres
of land to take up cultivation
 618 destitute /single women were sanctioned
housing under Indira Awash Yojana in 2004-05
Home guards
 9 Women home guards were selected
Education
 Two bridge course residential schools were
established through Indira Kranti Padam
 Below 9 years (Dropouts) were admitted in to
schools by tying up with residential schools
Health
 One VCTC is opened for dealing AIDS cases to
extend treatment to positive cases
 3 Gynaec camps conducted in 5 trafficking
mandals. Selected and trained 160 community
health activists at village level to create
awareness on health issues
Kadiri Mandal trafficked girls receiving
Pattas
N.P.Kunta girls receiving pattas
from MRO
BCRS
Girl Child Education
Kadiri
STHREE girls learning crafts
at skill centre, Kadiri
Rescue
 Two Swadhar Shelter Homes were sanctioned
in Kadiri area with the sanctioned strength of
100 for difficult circumstances women by
Government of India. One Shelter Home was
proposed for ‘STHREE’ voluntary organization
which is working in Kadiri area pertaining to
anti-trafficking activity through the District
Collector to APSACS. (Andhra Pradesh State
AIDS Control Society), A.P., Hyderabad and
sanction is awaited.
Rehabilitation trough training, Bank Linkage and
Federation
 Under convergence programme 50 Adolescent girls
were sanctioned Rs.5.00 lakhs under Community
Investment Fund for Incoming Generating activities.
65 Adolescent girls identified through village
organizations (Women Federations of SHGs) were
trained in Tailoring, Hand Embroidery, Mirror work and
Appliqué work in collaboration with WAKEUP-NGO.
Another 50 girls were identified in Kadiri area were
given above training in collaboration with Priya Mahila
Mandali.
 One special action plan have been prepared
exclusively for S.T. (Sugali) people in Kadiri area of
Anantapur District to a tune of Rs.270.94 lakhs and
submitted to the Commissioner, Tribal Welfare
Department, A.P., Hyderabad for release of funds
through District Collector.
 3 family counseling centers are established in
Nallacheruvu, Gandlapenta and Talupula mandals of
Kadiri block through social Community Investment
Fund (CIF) sub projects to a tune of
Rs.3.57 lakhs
 170 Destitute women were identified in Kadiri
erstwhile taluk and provided training and loan to a
tune of Rs.5.91 lakhs to take up non-form activities
under the programme called ‘Development of Women
Through Area’ Programme (DEWTHA) through Sree
Anantaha Grameena Bank, Anantapur.
The 170
destitutes consist of all communities including S.T.
women.
Best practices in coastal Regional Network
 Prevention
focused
Action
plan
is
being
implemented in Guntur and Prakasam districts from
December 2005
 Mapping of vulnerable areas is being carried out in
both districts (Guntur and Prakasam)
 Workshop on trafficking and CSE have been
conducted with police and DECD personnel in
Guntur district and planned for June 2006 in
Prakasam
 More than 50 Kalajathas were conducted in the two
districts in the initial stages in March 2006
 150 Adolescent girls are being trained on cultural
activities and Kalajathas and will conduct more than
2000 programmes in 100 villages in the two
districts in June-July 2006
Kalajatha outcomes
o Communities at large and especially women and
young girls understand trafficking CSE and the
impacts thereof
o Adolescent girls and women have started reacting
strongly to the violation of their rights in trafficking
and have started participating actively in anti
trafficking activities through Community Vigilant
Groups and Balika Sanghas
o Adolescent girls who have witnessed Kalajathas
have become more cautious and aware about
dangers posted by the problem of trafficking
Women’s Groups and Anti-trafficking work
o Women’s groups (SHGs) are a part of CVGs in the
village and SHG leaders represent the women’s
group in Community Vigilant Groups
o They have not only started participating actively in
prevention related activities, but have also started
involving victims and vulnerable women in
livelihood activities for rehabilitation and prevention
by providing them access to loans, land and other
alternatives
SUPPORT FROM UNDP
 UNDP–TAHA (Prevention of trafficking and HIV/AIDS
in women and girls) Project is suggested to support
for effective implementation, documentation and
reporting of the various activities which would entail
district level workshops for development of action
plan field assignments state level sensitization of
NGOs, TOT for ICDS centers (MLTC, AWTC) training
of PDS, CDPOs, Training of field functionaries on
Anti-trafficking Cells in 9 districts needs assessment
and planning workshops with SWADHAR homes,
Networking and exchange programmes, main
streaming of issues in Police and strengthening of
regional network
NATSAP
 Network of 22 NGOs working with VOCSET (Victims
of Commercial Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking)
 Forming of Community Based Organization with
VOCSET
 Active participation in Anti-trafficking committees at
District level
 Counselling, Health care & running STD clinics
 Prevention of second generation trafficking –working
for children of sex workers
 Para legal counselling for VOCSET
 Lobbying and advocacy
CACT
(Campaign Against Child Trafficking)
 CACT is a net work of 50 NGOs campaigning against
child trafficking in Andhra Pradesh covering all the
districts
o Awareness generation on
o Campaigning –Lobby & Advocacy
o Forming Vigilant groups with Adolescent girls &
SHGs
o Involving PRIs in prevention of trafficking in
children
o Establishing economic rehab units for VOCSET
o Employment opportunity for VOCSET through
corporate social responsibility
Ex: Employing VOCSET in petrol filling stations
Impact
• No of adolescent girls trained =36000+
• No of Police Officials trained = 300 +
• No of CVG members trained = 1500 +
• No of Kalajathas performed = 700 +
• No of victims rescued =37
• No of arrests made= 25
• No of cases pending in courts = 7
• Total no of victims and vulnerable girls
undergoing livelihood programs = 83 (Till March
2006)