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2010-02-23 08:33:00
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Embassy Port Moresby
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S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS - PAPUA NEW GUINEA

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STATE FOR S/GWI

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TAGS: KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY PP
SUBJECT: S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS - PAPUA NEW GUINEA

REF: STATE 132094, STATE 012531

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SIPDIS

STATE FOR S/GWI

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY PP
SUBJECT: S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS - PAPUA NEW GUINEA

REF: STATE 132094, STATE 012531

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1. Embassy Port Moresby is pleased to submit a proposal
received from the Consultative Implementation and Monitoring
Council (CIMC),Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee,
Skills and Literacy Training Program for Women as Papua New
Guinea's second preference from post.



BACKGROUND




2. The Family and Sexual Violence Action Committee (FSVAC) is
one of CIMCs 12 sectoral committees. The FSVAC is a coalition of
NGOs, Government. and private sector organizations. There are
twenty provincial FSVACs, comprised of NGOs, Government. and
private sector organization. The FSVAC was established in 2000.
Its basic purpose to work towards reducing the occurrence of and
suffering caused by physical, sexual and psychological violence
especially between family members in the home environment. The
FSVAC does this through implementation of the Integrated Long
Term Strategy. The Integrated Long Term Strategy (2001-2006) is
an outcome of a study conducted in 2001 to analyze the family
and sexual violence situation in PNG. The Integrated Long-Term
Strategy identifies six (6) areas for the committee to focus its
work on. Institutional strengthening; legal reform; services for
victims; working with perpetrators and potential
perpetrators; Community prevention and responses; trafficking of
women and children and data collection and research.





SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAM




3. The FSVAC in 2008 and 2009 conducted skills trainings with
former sex workers identified by the various organizations which
have planned programs running. The skills trainings targeted sex
workers especially young women who had been forced to sell sex
to survive. After the trainings we found that many of those
trained could not utilize their skills because they are
illiterate or lack funds to purchase items that would assist
them to start a new life. Therefore we propose this next phase
of skills training include literacy training for those who need

it and to provide start up funds for the sex workers starting a
new life

.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION




4. The government of PNG does not offer programs and projects
to assist women, especially young women and men involved in the
sex trade or in conflict with the law. Faith-based organizations
run Boys Towns where male children are sent for rehabilitation
but there are no such programs for female children. Typically,
girls run afoul of the law by entering into the sex trade and
thus participating in this informal and illegal business sector.
Women and young girls are involved 90% of this informal sector
trade.

The girls are further marginalized by being illiterate and
unskilled; there are not many jobs for unskilled labor in PNG,
and those involved in the informal business sector have very few
options to further their trade because they lack technology and
the know- how.



There have been alarming figures released in the last two years
revealing that PNG children are in situations ripe for being
exploited as child labor and in the child sex trade. PNG is not
an industrialized country and does not have child labor problems
in the manufacturing and industrial sector, but there is
evidence of child labor in the homes with children adopted or
fostered. A recent of immigrants from various parts of Asia in
recent years has apparently facilitated the entry of some forms
of organized crimes involved in the child sex trade, which
various sources state is now booming here.



The revised Child Welfare Act revealed that the percentage of
working adults is less than the children who are dependents. The
Orphan and Vulnerable Children's Report 2004 by Juliet Hunt and,

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the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Survey 2004 by
Elizabeth Cox showed that PNG is ripe for sexual exploitation
and, sexual abuse of children. They reported the following:



827,500 to 1, 344, 600 children live in violent homes

50% of the victims who report being raped are under the age of 15

1,034,300 adolescents are at risk of sexual exploitation and
abuse

Unemployed and desperately poor parents with no form of social
assistance sell their daughters to brokers

Children caught up in the system of sex work, are extremely
vulnerable and usually remain in sex work as adults.

Children separated from their biological parents are at high
risk of abuse

10% of the households include adopted children and stepchildren
- most adoption and fostering is done outside of the legal system

9% (220,000) of children fewer than 18 years of age are missing
one or both parents.

10, 000 children live on the streets, homeless or are abandon -
about 5000 of these children live in Port Moresby streets

The last Census report showed that 676 households in rural areas
were headed by children aged 10 and 14



INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING OF OWMNE AND CHILDREN:

FSVAC is seeing the effects of young men and women going into
the sex trade, either to survive or to escape from abuse at
home. We also are seeing domestic trafficking of young girls and
children in the sex trade. This trafficking occurs among
provinces; for example, married men who are land/resource owners
with money come to urban areas seeking what money can buy
including women. The level of poverty in urban areas and the
need for cash to purchase goods and services forces many young
women into the sex trade or makes them readily agreeable to
marry men with cash. These young women are transported to the
villages by these men and find themselves in very violent
situation with the husbands, their wives and the families. There
are children also involved from these relationships.



Closely related to this is intermarriage among people from
different provinces. A spouse (usually a wife) comes from
another province, and is abused for this reason. In such
relationships, the women and children suffer greatly; PNG lacks
the resources to repatriate them to their home provinces.



These problems and the increased in poverty levels that many
families are now faced with in the home has forced many young
men and women to seek friends on the streets to survive. Many of
these young men and women are selling sex because they are
illiterate and, lack funds to get into any training or income
generating activities.





BUDGET




5.



Two Days National Workshop
$30,000.00

Provincial and District Workshops $40,000.00

Adult Literacy Training
$20,000.00

Start up Funds
$10,000.00

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Total
$100,000.00





PARTNER ORGANIZATION




6. The FSVAC partnership that will implement the project



PACsE (People Against Child Sexual Exploitation) is a coalition
of NGOs, Government and private sector individuals and
organizations who are working together against child sexual
exploitation in PNG. PACsE has developed a national plan of
action to address the issues of child sexual exploitation,
education and public awareness on child sex trade and tourism

Poro Supot is an NGO based in Port Moresby, supported by Save
the Children New Zealand. The organization works with sex
workers, providing information on sexually transmitted diseases
and HIV/AIDS. The organization runs a drop in centre and a
clinic for HIV testing; policing officers' visit night clubs
distribute information, encourage sex workers to drop in for
testing and collect condoms used by both men and women.

PNG-WeCARE is a new organization also working with young girls
between the age of 10 and 15 who are in the sex trade. We-Care
PNG runs literacy programs with sex workers at the Morata
settlements and Hohola suburb. Young girls who have dropped out
of schools because they cannot afford fees are sponsored back to
school

PNG-YWCA has a sex workers programs, teaching skills,
educational awareness and literacy training.

The Catholic Life Skills Training Centre based in Port Moresby
offers skills training to women who would like to go into micro
economic activities (informal sector). In PNG 95% of those
involved in informal sector activities are women. At graduation
these women are either presented with sewing machines, or bolts
of materials, or pots depending on what areas they have received
training in. They also may receive financial assistance to
purchase necessary equipment through the Micro Finance Credit
Scheme.

The Individual Community Human Rights Advocacy Forum (ICRAF),
Catholic Family Services, Family Support Centers, Government
Welfare Services, Safe Houses (Crisis Centers),Provincial
FSVACs and the community advocates are organizations and
individuals that provide counseling and defend human rights.
These are the organizations that seek funding for repatriation
of women and children.

Provincial Family and Sexual Violence Action Committees are
provincial committees established to coordinate programs at the
provincial levels.
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