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08KUALALUMPUR146
2008-03-03 10:43:00
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Embassy Kuala Lumpur
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MALAYSIA: TIP PROPOSALS FOR FY2008 ESF AND INCLE

Tags:  PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG ASEC ELAB KCRM MY 
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FM AMEMBASSY KUALA LUMPUR
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0610
UNCLAS KUALA LUMPUR 000146 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

STATE FOR EAP/MTS, EAP/RSP, G/TIP FOR KATHLEEN BRESNAHAN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG ASEC ELAB KCRM MY
SUBJECT: MALAYSIA: TIP PROPOSALS FOR FY2008 ESF AND INCLE
FUNDS

REF: A. 07 STATE 161287 - G/TIP SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS


B. EMAIL - GALLEGO TO GTIP OF 11 FEB 08

C. EMAIL - GALLEGO TO GTIP OF 19 FEB 08

UNCLAS KUALA LUMPUR 000146

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

STATE FOR EAP/MTS, EAP/RSP, G/TIP FOR KATHLEEN BRESNAHAN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG ASEC ELAB KCRM MY
SUBJECT: MALAYSIA: TIP PROPOSALS FOR FY2008 ESF AND INCLE
FUNDS

REF: A. 07 STATE 161287 - G/TIP SOLICITATION FOR PROPOSALS


B. EMAIL - GALLEGO TO GTIP OF 11 FEB 08

C. EMAIL - GALLEGO TO GTIP OF 19 FEB 08


1. Post submits for funding consideration the following two
proposals from The Asia Foundation and the International
Organization for Migration. Post fully recommends both
proposals and lists them by priority. Both proposals focus
on effective implementation of Malaysia's new comprehensive
anti-trafficking law. We submitted these proposals to G/TIP
and EAP/RSP via email on February 11 and 19.


2. The Asia Foundation (TAF): Post recommends the TAF
proposal as a first priority. TAF's three-year project, with
a budget of $445,506, will enhance Malaysian government (GOM)
efforts to implement and enforce the 2007 Anti-trafficking in
Persons Act by providing exposure to best practices and
international standards, and supporting Malaysian NGOs.
While the new law is comprehensive, it is only now entering
the initial enforcement phase. The goal of the project is to
strengthen prosecution of traffickers in Malaysia. The
project has three objectives: 1) enhance the capacity of
prosecutors and judges to effectively prosecute traffickers;
2) improve community coordination in Sabah and Sarawak to
better protect victims and prosecute traffickers; and 3)
improve victim care in shelters and increase legal testimony
from victims. TAF will draw on its network of contacts in
Malaysia and extensive regional experience and expertise in
anti-trafficking to implement the proposed project.
Measurable results will include: increased number of
prosecutions of traffickers; shelters meet international
standards and victims receive better protection; increased
number of victims willing to testify against their
traffickers; and increased and better coordinated
community-based interventions in Sabah and Sarawak to protect
victims and prosecute traffickers. TAF will work closely
with the Asia Regional Trafficking in Persons project, an
ASEAN regional project funded by the Australian government,
and local NGOs, including the Malaysian Human Rights
Commission and Tenaganita, to implement the proposed project.
TAF's proposal meets our goal of encouraging government
action and enhancing government capacity to combat
trafficking in persons effectively.


3. (U) International Organization for Migration (IOM): As a
second priority, we recommend IOM's submission. The 12-month
project, with a budget of $186,040, will provide base-line
training on combating TIP utilizing the wide range of
training and resource materials IOM consolidated in its long
experience implementing counter-trafficking programs. The
proposal includes drawing from international best practices
and lessons learned from other governments' experiences
combating trafficking in persons. IOM will engage with the
Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Immigration, and
Ministry of Women, Family, and Community Development as its
main counterparts to advance an interdepartmental training
platform to strengthen operational coordination and victim
support measures as part of implementing the GOM's
comprehensive anti-TIP law. IOM's project objectives are: 1)
to develop and deliver a comprehensive counter-trafficking
training module for senior government officials at the
decision-making level; 2) to deliver c
omprehensive counter-trafficking training to at least 250
operational and frontline law enforcement and government
social service providers; and 3) to facilitate the
establishment of working groups to draft operational
coordination/referral guidelines for the handling of victims
of trafficking cases. This proposal is aligned with our
efforts to build capacity within law enforcement and expand
GOM's interagency efforts to implement its anti-TIP law.
KEITH