Human Trafficking

Partnerships*

Combating trafficking and promoting safe migration require close coordination and partnerships among multiple stakeholders. Through a range of projects ADB have worked closely with many other partners. Some of the examples, aside from a number of governments in its developing member countries, include:

• International Labour Organization Mekong Subregional Project - joint meetings and regular exchange of information as a regular partner backed by the Memorandum of Understanding.
• International Organization for Migration, South and South West Asia – through RETA 5948 Combating Trafficking of Women and Children in South Asia; TA 4085-BAN: Preparing the Social Protection for Disadvantaged Women and Children Project; and 6448: Integrating Human Trafficking and Safe Migration Concerns for Women and Children into Regional Cooperation)
• Save the Children Australia in Cambodia - through RETA 6190: Preventing Trafficking of Women and Children and Promoting Safe Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion
• Save the Children UK in Lao PDR - through RETA 6190: Preventing Trafficking of Women and Children and Promoting Safe Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Bangkok - through RETA 6247: HIV/AIDS Vulnerability and Risk Reduction among Ethnic Minority Groups Through Communications Strategies
• United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion (UNIAP) - through RETA 6190: Preventing Trafficking of Women and Children and Promoting Safe Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion; and RETA 6448: Integrating Human Trafficking and Safe Migration Concerns for Women and Children into Regional Cooperation)