Transcript PHILIPPINES - Bali Process

PHILIPPINES
National Strategic Plan of
Action Against Trafficking in
Persons (2004-2010)
Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking
National Strategic Plan of Action Against Trafficking
“Eliminating trafficking in persons
especially women and children and
ensuring their recovery , rehabilitation and
re-integration into mainstream society”
Background
• The Philippines is a State Party to the UN Convention
Against Transnational Organized Crime including the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in
Persons having ratified the same in December, 2002
• Passed the “Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act” inMay 2003
• Created the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking in
Persons (IACAT)
• Developed a national action plan - The National
Strategic Action Plan Against Trafficking in Persons
Objectives of the Stratplan
• Promote public awareness and sustain
collective/coordinated advocacy efforts
• Coordinate the maximum effective and efficient
implementation of the law
• Mobilize and forge partneships and cooperation among
different agencies involved in the areas of prevention,
protection, prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration
of trafficked persons
• Establish and institutionalize an effective and efficient
referral and tracking system of incidents of trafficking
through all the stages of intervention
• Institutionalize a central database and a shared
information system on trafficking
Strategies
• ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
• CAPACITY BUILDING
• DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT
• ALLIANCE BUILDING AND NETWORKING
• RESEARCH, POLICY STUDIES AND DOCUMENTATION
• INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS
Components/Strategic Activities
• PREVENTION - to create awareness, knowledge and
commitment by all stakeholders to facilitate wide
support and participation in comabating TIP
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developing and disseminating IEC materials
initiating and sustaining public information
organizing and/or strengthening community networks
establishing reporting and referral system
Document fraud examination acquisition
continually conducts pre-departure marriage counselling
Components/Strategic Activities
• PROTECTION/LAW ENFORCEMENT/PROSECUTION - to
create an environment where trafficked persons
especially women and children are protected and ensure
that institutional mechanisms for their protection are in
place and operational
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Expanding community protection networks
Enhancing capacities of frontline workers to address TIP
Developing manuals and protocols
Setting-up special units and task forces
Establishing hotlines and quick response teams
Strengthening inter-agency coordination
Institutionalizing child-friendly and gender-sensitive criminal
justice system
• Increasing bilateral cooperation with other countries (MOUs;
creation of a task Force to address the isuue of TIP in Japan;
MOU with Kuwait re: protection of Filipino citizens; continuous
consultation with countries with large no. of Filipinos)
Components/Strategic Activities
• RECOVERY AND REINTEGRATION - to ensure the
recovery and and reintegration oftrafficked persons into
their respective families and communities
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Developing local programs for recovery and reintegration
Increasing access to employment oportunities
Strengthening/expanding halfway houses and shelters
Preparing families and communities
Implementation Arrangements
• Developing policies, measures and programs for the
prevention of trafficking, protection and support of
trafficked persons and effective investigation and
prosecution of traffickers through concerned
government agencies
• Localizing trafficking initiatives through local
government units (local laws/ordinances)
• Forging strategic partnerships with NGOs and other
stakeholders
• Involving media, civil society and the private sector
Coordination and Monitoring
• The IACAT coordinates and monitors the
implementation of all activities relating to the
implementation of the stratplan against trafficking
• Regular consultative meetings are conducted with
Government Agencies and NGOs
• Developing reporting system for implementing
trafficking initiatives from the local to national level
• Standardizing statistical data and collection towards
creating a national/central data base
Thank you and Mabuhay!
Atty. Robert L. Larga
Department of Justice
Atty. Edna Mae G. Lazaro
Department of Foreign Affairs