Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

RETA 6190: Preventing the Trafficking of Women and Children and Promoting Safe Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion - Subregional
Financed by Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

The TA will (i) develop institutional awareness and capacity within ADB and in the developing member countries of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Viet Nam and Thailand, to promote safe migration and address trafficking and related issues in regional projects in the GMS, and (ii) pilot programs for the prevention of trafficking, which will be developed in the context of the ADB-supported projects, the Northern Economic Corridor and the Mekong Tourism Development.

This will also consist of working with governments, NGOs and communities to:

• establish baselines and develop monitoring mechanisms to assess the situation of poverty, migration and trafficking among communities at risk at pre-project, mid-project and post-project stages
• prepare awareness campaigns, including workshops and seminars against trafficking for communities and government agencies which will build upon work related to HIV/AIDS awareness under the Northern Economic Corridor Project
• develop economic alternatives for groups at risk through training and economic empowerment of women and girls, and imparting knowledge of life skills to children
• develop a set of guidelines to integrate trafficking issues in GMS projects
• hold a subregional conference on trafficking at ADB headquarters

• TA Report
• More Project Information
• RETA final workshop, 25-27 July 2007
• Article: Raising People's Awareness of Human Trafficking Risks in Projects Improving Connectivity [ PDF: 86kb | 2 pages ]
• Broken Lives: Trafficking in Human Beings in Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Consultant's Report [ PDF: 977kb | 19 pages ]
• The Significance of Referral Systems as a Response to Human Trafficking and Unsafe Migration