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Gender Thematic RETAs

Preventing Trafficking of Women and Children and Promoting Safe Migration in the Greater Mekong, RETA 6190, 2004

The Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) has traditionally been an area of high migration, within its countries and across borders. Improved connectivity in recent times has led to increased migration, and unprecedented rise in human trafficking. In response to this, ADB approved a technical assistance grant on 4 October 2004??covering Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam - to encourage sub-regional cooperation in the GMS countries for promoting safe migration and addressing trafficking issues in sub-regional projects.

The goal of the TA is the improved safety and economic benefit of mobility of poor and vulnerable people in the GMS, especially women and children. It aims to

1. improve awareness in ADB regarding the causes, nature, and consequences of trafficking in women and children
2. assist the DMCs to reach sub-regional agreements and prepare action plans to prevent trafficking
3. develop pilot programs in conjunction with selected GMS projects that could prevent trafficking and could be replicated

The TA will have four components:

1. preparation and implementation of pilot programs for the prevention of trafficking
2. support to sub-regional cooperation on anti-trafficking and mobility in collaboration with United Nations Inter-Agency project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
3. advocacy and policy dialogue with ministries of economy and finance and other line ministries to mainstream such issues into national policy making and resource allocation processes
4. project management support for purposes of evaluation of outcomes and preparation of dissemination strategies

The outputs will consist of the following:

• Pilot programs to promote safe migration and minimize risks of trafficking, to be developed and implemented along with two ADB-financed DMC loan projects (Loan 1989: LAO - Northern Area Economic Corridor Project, Loan 1969: CAM, Loan 1970: LAO, and Loan 1971: VIE on GMS Mekong Tourism Development Project)
• Support to sub-regional cooperation on against trafficking
• Country-level awareness raising through advocacy and policy dialogu
• Evaluation and dissemination and the preparation of a scaling-up strategy

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