COMMIT Progress Monitoring

Under the second COMMIT Sub-Regional Plan of Action (COMMIT SPA II 2008-2010), the 6 Mekong Governments committed themselves to aim to achieve 31 key targets by 2010. Progress against these targets in each country is reviewed annually. Please check back on this page for updates.

These targets are divided across 8 project proposal concepts (PPCs):

Training and Capacity Building

Training materials updated, modularized for national training and trainer certification

National level adapted curricula, with a cadre of trainers and targeted operational training provided according to needs assessments. Trainer certification and trainer refresher programs running.

National Plans of Action

All NPAs completed and passed by governments, with draft implementation plans.

All implementation plans for NPAs completed, adopted, and funded, with functioning coordination and monitoring mechanisms.

Strengthened alignment between anti-trafficking activities and NPAs, including consistency between NPAs and sectoral/agency implementation plans.

Coordination mechanisms functioning and integrated into government agency mandates and budgets.

Multilateral and Bilateral Partnerships

Regional experience in developing and implementing bilateral cooperation agreements on trafficking documented and shared.

Bilateral coordination mechanisms on human trafficking signed where appropriate, with effective implementation and monitoring.

Bilateral coordination mechanisms functioning and integrated into government agency mandates and budgets.

Established systems for the collection and exchange of information within and across borders.

Legal Frameworks, Law Enforcement, and Justice

Strengthened general and specialist law enforcement responses to trafficking.

Effective multilateral and bilateral cooperation between specialist trafficking units.

Strategies for prosecuting trafficking under existing legal frameworks developed.

Countries have ratified the major international and regional agreements relevant to human trafficking and incorporated key provisions into national law.

National legal framework (1) criminalizes trafficking, (2) has adequate penalties, (3) protects victims, (4) supports witnesses, and (5) creates widest possible jurisdiction.

Extradition and MLATs incorporate trafficking-related crimes; facilitate investigative and judicial cooperation.

There is an informed and appropriate judicial and prosecutorial response.

Victim ID, Protection, Recovery and Reintegration

Regional guidelines for victim ID, shelter and recovery, repatriation, and reintegration agreed by consensus and adopted by governments.

National level operationalization of the regional guidelines on protection fully completed.

Bilateral and national level policy and procedure changes implemented to address key gaps in capacity building and program infrastructure of victim return.

Bilateral and national level policy and procedure changes implemented to address current challenges in implementing victim ID and repatriation guidelines.

Preventive Measures

Regional and national guidelines on migrant recruitment practices in the GMS completed.

Development and implementation of national operational guidelines and mechanisms for labor recruitment and migrant protection.

Direct measures to accurately target and reduce vulnerabilities in the migration and recruitment processes, and in workplaces.

Training on and systematic monitoring of compliance with regional and national guidelines.

Cooperation with the Tourism Sector

Regional strategy on cooperation with the tourism sector developed.

Regional strategy adopted on cooperation with the tourism sector to combat human trafficking, and action plan created and implemented.

Increase in cooperation with private sector regionally and in all countries, with evidence of tangible progress used as a springboard for further cooperation.

Management: Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation

Inter-agency and inter-governmental monitoring plan functioning, with joint targets and timelines.

Annual monitoring reports and final evaluation of COMMIT SPA II.

Aggregate impact assessment: multi-agency prevention, protection, and prosecution efforts across the GMS.