Although
a lot has been learnt already about practical ways in which adults and
children who have been trafficked can be protected and assisted, much less
attention has been given in recent years to drawing lessons about
what techniques succeed in preventing trafficking from occurring. As
a result, donors seem reluctant to invest money in efforts to prevent child
trafficking, even though they are familiar with the old adage, “prevention is
better than cure”.
Giving prevention more attention means improving the quality of preventive
work, as well as increasing the amount of work being done. This
handbook is a contribution towards that improvement, distilling some of the
lessons which have already been learnt by many different organisations.
This
handbook focuses on ways in which child trafficking can be prevented. It
looks in particular at activities which are organised as projects or
programmes, but also
comments more generally on what actions are likely to be effective in
preventing children from being trafficked. It is presented as a
handbook so that project designers can follow it as they go, step by step,
through the process of developing activities to prevent children from being
trafficked.
The handbook is intended for anyone who plays a role in designing or
organising activities to prevent child trafficking and, by
implication, for a wider audience of policy makers in government,
inter-governmental organisations (IGOs) and organisations involved in
deciding what preventive activities should receive priority or in financing
anti-trafficking activities. In contrast, this publication is not
intended for general readers or for people who simply want to find out what
human trafficking is and how children are exploited.
Although this handbook is presented in the form of practical advice on how to
prepare ativities to prevent child trafficking, there are so many
different steps to take that they cannot be boiled down to a simple list of
steps from 1 to 10. Instead, the key action points are summarised
throughout the text. They are also summarised in the form of a series of
guidelines at the end, in Chapter V.
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