Objectives & Initiatives

The four main objectives of UNIAP’s Phase III are focused around the Project’s key constituencies:

Objective 1: Services to governments

To support governments in the institutionalization of effective multi-sectoral approaches to combat trafficking.

Objective 2: Services to UN Partners

To maximize the UN’s contribution to the overall anti-trafficking response, including the COMMIT process.

Objective 3: Services to the broader
counter-trafficking sector, including donors.

To facilitate optimal allocation and targeting of anti-trafficking resources.

Objective 4: Services to the broader counter-trafficking sector, including donors (continued)

To continue playing a catalytic role in the anti-trafficking response by identifying and supporting special projects to address new and emerging issues and opportunities.

 

To achieve these objectives, UNIAP has nine initiatives/projects that are managed, in partnership, with the counter trafficking community in the Greater Mekong Sub-region:

• Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) process
• Strategic Information Response Network (SIREN)
• Support to Underserved Victim Population
• Worst Offenders Project
• Shelter Self-Improvement Project
• Cross-regional Linkages Project
• Ethics and Human Rights in Counter-Trafficking
• Global Financial Crisis
• REACH Initiative
  
  

These activities, from the policy levels to the grassroots, and within the Mekong region and beyond, ensure that:

• The regional and country guidelines, MOUs, and guiding principles signed on at the highest policy levels reflect an understanding of the reality at the community level;
• A link exists between policy initiatives and real activities on the ground;
• Real priorities and real underserved victims are being addressed, based on empirical data and not assumptions; and
• The voices of human trafficking victims and vulnerable communities are taken into consideration within all aspects of the project – prevention, protection, prosecution, and policy.
  
  

What do we plan to achieve?

Through our nine key initiatives, UNIAP hopes to achieve in the six GMS countries, by the end of UNIAP Phase III:

 

Protection
Victims of human trafficking will be able to access protection services across the region that meet international standards.

Prosecution
Impunity will be reduced for traffickers and exploitative employers, with securing justice for victims through effective, fair, and proportionate criminal justice processes.

Policy
Legal and cooperation frameworks will be compatible, functioning, and consistent with the prevention, protection, and prosecution objectives of the COMMIT MoU.

Prevention
There will be reduced incidence of trafficking through targeted vulnerability reduction, and increased access to non-exploitative employment.

Strategic Information
Systems are in place that accurately monitor and disseminate, on an ongoing basis, the human trafficking situation and the effectiveness of the counter-trafficking response.

…with mechanisms for sustainability across all interventions and countries.