COUNTER-TRAFFICKING

PROGRAMME

Lviv

2012

Presentation by Oksana Ustynova

Coordinator of Counter-Trafficking Program

ICF Caritas Ukraine

Caritas Ukraine’s Counter-Trafficking Program

The Program uses a three-tier approach:

• Prevention and Advocacy by dissemination of information to further increase public awareness

• Protection and Reintegration by providing assistance to victims of trafficking who are returning to their countries of origin, both directly and via partner NGOs

• Partnership is the basis of all of CU’s counter-trafficking efforts.

Countries of destination for Ukrainian victims of trafficking

(IOM 2000-2011 caseload)

Over 110,000 Ukrainians have suffered from human trafficking since 1991

Types of exploitation

(IOM 2004-2011 caseload)

Gender of VoTs

Ukraine as a transit and destination country

Results of Law-enforcement activity on Counter-

Trafficking in Ukraine

Number of registered crimes filed by CT Department of MOI of Ukraine and number of verdicts passed by the courts of Ukraine according to Art. 149 (previously 124-1) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (1998 – December 2011)

National Referral and Partnership Network in Ukraine

• 28 NGOs around Ukraine provide reintegration assistance to VoTs

• IOM Kyiv Medical Rehabilitation Centre established in 2002 assisted over 1,165 VoTs;

• 93% of VoTs are referred through national NGOs

• 43.9% are referred to NGOs by law enforcements and gvt agencies;

• 38.4% - by individuals incl. VoTs;

• 15% ID through NGO activities,

• 2.7% other

State, international and NGO’s partnership network of

Caritas Ukraine

• State Agency for Employment, Counter Trafficking Police Department, Security Service of Ukraine, State Educational Department, State Social Services.

• 20 NGOs – Ukrainian CT Coalition

• IOM, La Strada, ILO and OSCE

• COATNET

Reintegration Assistance to VoTs

by the CT Coalition of Ukraine

Results of Reintegration Program of Caritas

Ukraine (2004-2011)

• 1050 VoTs was included in Program

• 2400 – psychological support and legal assistance

• 1000 – took complex reintegration support

• 830 – help in employment and self-employment

• 90 – assistance in the development of the private business

Individual Reintegration Plan

provided by CU in cooperation with IOM and

State institutions

• Psychological

assistance

• Comprehensive

medical assistance at

the IOM Kyiv Medical

Rehabilitation Centre

• Social assistance

• Housing/ Shelter

• Family Support

Individual Reintegration Plan

provided by CU in cooperation with IOM and State

institutions

• Vocational training

• Micro-Enterprise Development support

• Legal assistance / reconstruction of documents

• Clothes, footwear

• Equipment and tool for self-employment

Group work

Creating of the group of the mutual aid from number of VoTs by gender is one of the forms of psychological support for them

Main objectives of Micro-Enterprise

support

• Raise of effectiveness of reintegration services for VoTs

• Employment of VoTs and return to normal life

Main objectives of the project of

Micro-Enterprise support

Develop of ability of NGOs to carry out of business-trainings and provide counseling about opening of private business

Caritas Ukraine’s preventive activities

Target groups:

• Unemployed people, high school students and senior students of professional schools

• NGOs, social services, clergy, police bodies, state officers

• Mass-media

Preventive activity is orient on increasing awareness

level on trafficking issues and its actuality for Ukraine

• lectures

• trainings

• round tables

• informative materials were

published and distributed

• press-conferences and

meetings with mass-media

• Radio and TV programs

CU uses different interactive methods:

• discussions

• trainings / seminars

• role-playing

• Forum-theatre

• Street actions

Training for volunteers

Perfomance of gender interactive theater ‘Anima’

from Yuzhnyi

Volunteer’s media-quest

Street action in Khmelnytskyi

‘Stop organ trafficking’

Street action in Khmelnytskyi

‘Stop organ trafficking’

THANK YOU!