The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) at the Informal Joint Briefing to Member States, Vienna, 2 March 2012

THE PARTNERS

THE ACHIEVEMENTS

THE UN.GIFT STRATEGY ▪ Component A: Knowledge Management ▪ Component B: Joint Programmes and Projects ▪ Component C: Global Platform for Dialogue ▪ Component D: Inter-agency cooperation

Component D: Inter-agency cooperation UN.GIFT Steering Committee at HQ level UN.GIFT member organizations in country and regional offices around the world THE UN.GIFT STRATEGY

Component A: Knowledge Management Consolidating the UN.GIFT knowledge HUB Improving knowledge generation and accessibility Ensuring excellence and relevance Improving monitoring and evaluation THE UN.GIFT STRATEGY

UN.GIFT Knowledge HUB THE UN.GIFT STRATEGY

UN.GIFT Knowledge HUB

THE UN.GIFT STRATEGY UN.GIFT Knowledge HUB

THE UN.GIFT STRATEGY UN.GIFT Knowledge HUB

THE UN.GIFT STRATEGY UN.GIFT Knowledge HUB

Component B: Strategic Support and Interventions Strategic support to Member States through Joint Programmes Strategic support to other stakeholders through thematic and sector-specific pilot projects THE UN.GIFT STRATEGY

Aimed at improving the ability of anti-trafficking partners to develop their responses to the challenge in a coherent and comprehensive manner Includes inter-agency support and targeted projects Cooperation with UN.GIFT’s stakeholders such as civil society, private sector, employers’ and workers’ organizations and victims of trafficking Component B: Strategic Support and Interventions

Joint Programme in Serbia Formalized cooperation between all relevant National Referral Mechanism actors Nexus between asylum and human trafficking mainstreamed; Improved awareness of human trafficking among particularly vulnerable groups; Enhanced knowledge of anti-human trafficking legislation and jurisprudence; Law students and professors trained in anti- human trafficking; Improved detection of human trafficking cases including those identified within asylum channels; Mechanism for protection of victims of trafficking improved through the introduction of decentralized and country wide identification, referral and an assistance approach.

Success factors for Joint Programmes illustrated by the Serbia JP A strong government support Substantial investment of time and resources and support from a neutral central Secretariat Cooperative work of International organizations and national stakeholders Support from UN.GIFT Secretariat for the initial inter-agency stakeholder meetings and ongoing support of the field team

New Joint Programmes UN.GIFT will support projects that are: 1.clearly innovative and ground-breaking 2.demonstrably more effectively implemented collectively than individually by one agency UN.GIFT member organizations will develop a joint assessments checklist for: the development of activities under this component the improvement of coordinated planning and determination of priority needs for national attention the providing of comprehensive guidance on reviewing existing structures

Joint Needs Assessment Joint Programmes will be developed to respond to the findings of joint needs assessments will be carried out at the request of Member States by independent national and international experts and supported by relevant Steering Committee member organizations on the ground experts from the relevant regional body, civil society and other stakeholder sectors will also be engaged in the assessment process.

New Projects would target: Joint Sector Specific Initiatives: Targeted private-public partnerships to pilot recruitment of former victims of trafficking by the private sector in co-operation with victim service providers; Capacity building initiatives undertaken for victims; Innovative or Effective Projects Award for Civil Society work; Collaboration with Trade Unions and Workers’ Organizations to promote the use of union officials and labour inspectors in identifying and responding to trafficking; Develop social dialogue between employers and trade unions to combat trafficking; Programmes for better regulation of recruitment industry; Identify and support mechanisms to recognize good practices of business engagement in anti-trafficking work.

New Projects would target: Joint Thematic Initiatives: Promoting model safe migration channels; Supporting the piloting of an alternative credit facility for migrants to prevent debt bondage situations; Victim empowerment programmes focusing on self- protection and access to legal rights and decent work; Using a ‘corridor approach’ to focus comprehensively on an established trafficking route; ‘Children on the Move’ and prevention of trafficking; Exploring social inclusion models to prevent trafficking.

Concluding remarks Significance of the Strategic Support and Interventions component: Clearly innovative and ground-breaking programmes Programmes implemented collectively, not individually by one agency Focus on a specific sector or theme related to trafficking in persons No duplication, less transaction costs and more synergies among national partners and the different contributions of international organizations The total amount allocated to the second component is USD

Component C: Platform for Global Dialogue Hearing the voices of trafficked persons Consultation and cooperation with civil society, private sector, media and academia Awareness on the issue of trafficking THE UN.GIFT STRATEGY

Hearing the voices of trafficked persons PLATFORM FOR GLOBAL DIALOGUE

Consultation and cooperation with civil society, private sector, media and academia PLATFORM FOR GLOBAL DIALOGUE

Awareness on the issue of trafficking