ESF ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT PROPOSAL

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SUBJECT: ESF ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT PROPOSAL

REF: 04 STATE 263156


1. Overview of Request: Post is requesting ESF funding
through G/TIP in the amount of $177,728 for a research and
capacity building program. This project will have two key
components: a) strengthening civil society efforts to combat
trafficking in persons and b) identifying trafficking
patterns in Central and Northern Mozambique. The project
will be implemented by the International Organization for
Migration (IOM),which has extensive experience in anti-TIP
programs in the Southern African region, including
Mozambique. IOM was the only organization to submit a
proposal in response to Embassy requests.


2. Below are responses to the eleven points in paragraph
13 of reftel:

A. Project Title: IOM Southern Africa Counter-Trafficking
Assistance Program: Research and Capacity Building for
Mozambique

B. Name of Recipient Organization: International
Organization for Migration/Southern Africa office. IOM is
based in Pretoria but has received GRM authorization to open
a branch office in Maputo in 2005, which will facilitate
project activities.

C. Project Duration: Project duration will be eight
months, through the end of 2005.

D. Project Description: IOM will expand its regional
counter-trafficking assistance programs by: a) strengthening
civil society groups working on anti-trafficking issues
currently, and b) conducting anti-trafficking research in
northern and central Mozambique.
The research component will focus on identifying trafficking
patterns in two major transportation corridors about which
very little is known, Beira-Manica (central Mozambique) and
Nacala-Lichinga (northern Mozambique). IOM will contract
two researchers to carry out investigations for six months,
and will produce a report in English and Portuguese
detailing their findings. Upon completion of research, IOM
will initiate its capacity building activities, including a
series of training workshops designed to strengthen a
network of largely uncoordinated Mozambican NGOs, government
agencies, and others that work on anti-trafficking issues.
Two-day training sessions will be held in each of
Mozambique's ten provinces. The first day will focus on the
basics of the trafficking problem. The second day will
focus on coordination of activities, including assistance
measures, data collection, and establishment/enforcement of
anti-trafficking laws.

E. Justification: Mozambique is a country of origin for
internationally trafficked women and children. South Africa
is the principal receiving country for trafficked persons;
IOM reports that approximately 1,000 women per year are
trafficked from Southern Mozambique to work as prostitutes
in the Johannesburg area, generally near the mines.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that trafficking to South Africa
and Zimbabwe takes place in central and northern Mozambique
also, but no credible studies exist to document patterns.
Mozambique currently does not have an anti-trafficking law,
but a law based on international norms was drafted in late
2004 and may be introduced in the National Assembly in 2005.
Interest in anti-trafficking issues among Mozambican civil
society has risen in recent years, but advocacy, data
collection and reintegration programs are still very much
uncoordinated, and little technical support is available.

F. Performance Indicators: IOM will provide a report on
human trafficking in Mozambique will be published, offering
profiles of victims and perpetrators, methods of
recruitment, transportation, and exploitation, as well as an
account of the existing assistance infrastructure. IOM will
also provide a list of key counter-trafficking stakeholders
identified in each province and establishment of a formal
network of these stakeholders working on counter-trafficking
issues. At the last seminar, held in Maputo, an anti-
trafficking action plan will be drafted by the stakeholder
network.

G. Evaluation Plan: IOM will prepare three official
reports on the project for donors and the GRM; two of these
will be interim reports after the third and sixth month of
implementation, focusing on research activities. The third
and final report will include an evaluation of the final two
months of project implementation during which the training
seminars were conducted. IOM Maputo will follow up with
stakeholders three months after the conclusion of the
project to assess implementation of the plans of action, and
offer a final evaluation of the impact of the project.

H. Budget Breakout:
Field Research $116,950
Trafficking Seminars $44,650
Staff and Office Costs $16,128

I. Type and amount of host government contribution: None

J. Proposed funding mechanism: Contribution letter

K. Embassy point of contact: Jim Potts, Political-Economic
Officer. ph (w): 258 1 49 27 97; ph (m): 258 82 305 899
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