Research and Implementation Projects on Human Trafficking Priority Areas

Research and Implementation Projects on Human Trafficking Priority Areas is sponsored by U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office). The TIP Office is interested in funding research and implementation projects focused on five priority areas as they relate to human trafficking: Supply Chains, Climate Change and Displacement, Public Health, Financial Inclusion, and Sex Trafficking.

As of October 1, 2024, the TIP Office manages 112 bilateral, regional, and global anti-trafficking projects in 78 countries worth more than $272 million in total. Information on many of these projects is listed below. ## [](https://2021-2025.

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gov/tip-office-project-descriptions/) AFRICA – EAST **Countries:**Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelle, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda **Implementer:** United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) **Duration:** 4/1/2019 – 7/31/2025 **Description:** UNODC is working to improve regional cooperation and coordination on trafficking in persons in Eastern Africa through the development and implementation of a regional plan of action to combat human trafficking.

Additionally, UNODC is assisting states to draft and adopt anti-trafficking legislation, implementing regulations, and national action plans.

**Implementer:** International Organization for Migration (IOM) **Duration**: 3/1/2020**–**8/31/2025 **Description:** IOM is strengthening the capacity of the national task force to implement the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), establishing a centralized data management system for the NRM as well as a toll-free hotline to report human trafficking cases, and upgrading two local NGO shelters to provide services for victims of transnational and internal trafficking.

IOM is supporting the National and Regional Task Force to address internal trafficking in its 2020-2025 National Action Plan. IOM is training NRM members on screening interviews, referrals, and case management, culminating in the rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of internal and transnational trafficking.

**Implementer:** United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) **Duration:**7/1/2020 – 6/30/2024 **Description:** UNODC is strengthening the capacity of the Witness Protection Directorate to effectively provide victim and witness assistance and protection in human trafficking cases; operationalizing the National Referral Mechanism Standard Operating Procedure victim-witness protection processes and procedures through the delivery of specialized training for law enforcement officials; and developing specialized skills within the Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) Unit to investigate and prosecute internal child trafficking.

**Implementer:** The Freedom Fund (FF) **Duration:**10/1/2019**–**6/30/2025 **Description:** The Freedom Fund is making progress towards substantially and measurably reducing the prevalence of domestic servitude amongst women and girls in Ethiopia and in the migration corridor to the Middle East.

After having strengthened the evidence on the prevalence, causes and consequences of child trafficking within Ethiopia with a focus on domestic servitude, the project will work towards reducing the prevalence of internal domestic servitude experienced by girls and transnational domestic servitude experienced by Ethiopian women and girls.

Freedom Fund will support sub-grantees to positively influence the behavior of key stakeholders, including recruiters, and enforce the government action to reduce domestic servitude amongst Ethiopian girls; and enable survivor-centered and trauma-informed support and reintegration services to children and adults, including those returning from the Middle East.

**Implementer:** Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB) **Duration:**8/1/2021**–**2/28/2025**Description:** LWOB is assisting in the establishment of a specialized prosecution unit within the Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) to combat commercial and online child sexual exploitation.

Additionally, LWOB is developing a human trafficking data collection and reporting mechanism to improve data collection use and analysis to support victim identification, referrals, and criminal justice.

**Country:** Kenya and Uganda **Duration:**10/1/2022 – 9/30/2024 **Description:**Working with human trafficking survivors, IOM will employ a community-based model to create resilience to human trafficking caused by climate change through livelihood support, developing community structures that increase access to socio-economic services, fostering behavior change, and using a unique prevalence model detailing links between climate change and human trafficking.

The program will support climate smart enterprises, conduct vocational trainings with job placements for human trafficking survivors affected by climate change, and provide essential comprehensive protection services to human trafficking survivors.

The program will pilot a range of interventions through a phased approach and refine a randomized controlled trial to build the evidence on what works to reduce human trafficking amid climate change.

**Implementer:** United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) **Duration:**8/1/2021 **–**7/31/2025 **Description:** UNODC is working with the Government of Madagascar to establish and operationalize human trafficking investigation and prosecution units to effectively detect, investigate, and prosecute trafficking in persons and child sex tourism; strengthen the national centralized data collection and reporting mechanism; and strengthen international cooperation in criminal justice matters.

**Implementer:** New York University (NYU) **Duration:**5/1/2022**–**9/30/2026 **Description:** This project seeks to reduce trafficking for domestic work Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam Tanzania through predeparture awareness raising know your rights campaigns and the organization and education of community-based organizations to assist victims.

**Implementer:** Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB) **Duration:**3/19/2023 – 9/30/2026 **Description:**LWOB will build on UK-funded efforts to operationalize the recently established Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Task Force (AHTCP-TF) in mainland Tanzania and the Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) unit in Zanzibar through ongoing case consultation and mentoring, as well as establish and capacitate regional sub-units/task forces with dedicated investigators and prosecutors to ensure more human trafficking cases are detected, investigated, and successfully prosecuted.

LWOB’s strong partnership with both key government stakeholders, as well as local NGOs makes it well-positioned to continue strengthening capabilities to identify, investigate and prosecute human trafficking crimes.

**Implementer**: Population Council **Duration**: 10/1/2023 – 9/30/2027 **Description**: Population Council proposes to use IDR to combat forced begging of people with disabilities (PWD) in Addis Ababa, Tigray, and Amhara, Ethiopia. They will work with local partners Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development and Ethiopian Lawyers with Disabilities Association.

Their intervention, which will be informed by persons with lived experience of this type of trafficking, will be piloted over 18-20 months during which partners will undertake assessments of cost and impact. At the end, they will assess the merits of adapting or scaling up the intervention. They will share findings with the local community in-person and will prepare papers documenting recommendations and lessons learned.

**Implementer:**International Organization for Migration **Duration:**4/3/2024 – 11/30/2025 **Description:**In line with Tanzania’s National Anti-Trafficking in Persons Plan of Action, IOM will: 1) enhance the capacity of shelters; 2) provide timely, comprehensive, quality, and accessible services to victims; and 3) ensure sustainable return and reintegration of victims of trafficking.

IOM will support a network of shelters in multiple regions and provide services to victims of trafficking, ensuring that shelters provide comprehensive and victim-centered services that enable physical, psychological, and social recovery. This project will also support victims’ safe and voluntary return to their places of origin, as well as economic, social, and psychological reintegration and reunification with their families.

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gov/tip-office-project-descriptions/) AFRICA – SOUTH & CENTRAL **Implementer:** International Organization for Migration (IOM) **Duration:** 8/3/2023 – 1/31/2026 **Description:** The project seeks to build the capacity of the government and civil society stakeholders at the national and district level to prosecute TIP cases and protect victims through joint criminal justice trainings and mentorship, strengthening of national and district level coordination structures, improving access to services for survivors, and supporting transit monitoring in key hotspots.

**Countries:** Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia **Implementer:** Love Justice International (LJI) **Duration:** 10/1/2020 – 12/30/2024 **Description:** LJI is implementing a new approach to observe and take direct action to halt human trafficking in progress, identify perpetrators, and gain intelligence to support the investigation and prosecution of perpetrators.

The project is focusing on preventing trafficking by intervening at the point of transit to ensure victims do not reach the point of exploitation. LJI also is working to improve comprehensive services for identified victims and increase the number of systematized, victim-centered human trafficking investigations and prosecutions.

**Implementer:** Plan International **Duration:**7/1/2022 – 6/30/2025 **Description:** This project works in Lilongwe, Mwanza, Mulanje – three hotspots for intra-country TIP – to strengthen the capacity of front-line actors; refine and align national level policies and programming; bolster support services to survivors; and link community, district, and national level initiatives.

**Country:** Zimbabwe, Malawi, & Zambia **Implementer:** University of Georgia (UGA) **Duration:**10/1/2022 – 9/30/2026 **Description:**The University of Georgia will implement a program designed to improve the financial inclusion of young adult survivors of labor trafficking and those at most risk of labor trafficking ages 16-35 in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.

The program will create and strengthen financial savings groups for survivors returning from South Africa and vulnerable youth considering moving to South Africa. The program will engage with local youth and young adult agencies, as well as think tanks, to increase the chances of systemic transformation and sustainability.

The effectiveness of the interventions will be measured through a randomized controlled trial that will include prevalence estimates for each country as an outcome indicator.

**Country:**South Africa**Implementer:**Human Trafficking Institute**Amount:**$1,300,000**Duration:**4/1/2023 – 3/31/2026**Description:**This project will bolster the response to combating human trafficking in South Africa by working alongside the government from within the criminal justice system in a long-term partnership, providing day-to-day technical assistance to ensure policies and procedures are institutionalized within criminal justice system agencies.

**Country:**Burundi**Implementer:**The National Federation of Associations Engaged in Children’s Welfare (FENADEB)**Amount:**$500,000**Duration:**10/1/2023 – 3/31/2025 **Description:**The project seeks to equip community-based stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to identify and refer victims of trafficking, identify hotspots and sensitize the community to human trafficking, and provide services to victims of trafficking including reintegration support.

The project will work closely with the National Commission Against Trafficking in Persons to create sustainable change to protect victims of trafficking and collaborate with anti-trafficking stakeholders.

**Implementer:** Save the Children **Duration:** 4/1/2024 – 11/30/2025 **Description:**Funding supports a new comprehensive Partnership to Prevent Trafficking in Persons (P2P) jointly developed and implemented by the U.S. government, the Government of Zambia, and Save the Children through a multi-year partnership.

The purpose of the partnership and program is to strengthen the efforts of Zambia’s government and civil society organizations to prevent human trafficking; proactively identify, protect, and provide comprehensive, trauma-informed care for victims of trafficking; effectively investigate, prosecute, and convict perpetrators of human trafficking; and create an enabling environment to promote more effective collaboration and partnerships to address human trafficking.

This partnership will encompass all forms of human trafficking and will target both adult and child victims. [Government of Zambia and Government of the United States of America Partnership to Prevent Trafficking in Persons[2 MB]](https://2021-2025. state.

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gov/tip-office-project-descriptions/)AFRICA – WEST **Country:** Burkina Faso **Implementer:** Plan International USA **Duration:** 5/1/2021 – 5/31/2025 **Description:** Plan International is providing comprehensive, survivor-informed services to child trafficking survivors and building the capacity of key actors to prevent and respond to trafficking.

The project is focusing on support for children 10-18 years old in areas with a high prevalence of child trafficking due to recruitment from violent extremist groups, in the Cascades, Boucle du Mouhoun, and Northern regions.

**Implementer:** International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) **Duration:**6/1/2021**–**2/28/2025 **Description:** ICMPD is building the capacity of the National Observatory for Monitoring and Rapid Identification of Human Trafficking Situations (Observatory), which is mandated to convene the main anti-trafficking stakeholders and coordinate anti-trafficking efforts in Cabo Verde.

ICMPD is refining the roles and responsibilities of the Observatory members, supporting the development and implementation a National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the protection of victims, developing a training of trainers course for the NRM and SOPs, and supporting a comprehensive study on human trafficking and child sexual exploitation.

**Country**: Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone **Implementer:** The University of Georgia (UGA) **Duration:**10/1/2019**–**9/30/2025 **Description:** UGA is working to reduce the prevalence of child sex trafficking in Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone by conducting targeted prevalence baselines and developing programming that builds on this research.

**Countries:** Nigeria & Liberia **Implementer:** Freedom Fund **Duration:**7/1/2022 – 12/31/2026 **Description:** This project is developing targeted interventions to reduce the prevalence of exploitative child domestic work; pilot-testing the interventions; and using the evidence to articulate an intervention model for local and regional stakeholders to reduce abuses and exploitation in child domestic work.

**Implementer:** Anti-Slavery International (ASI) **Amount:** $3,600,000 ($1. 8M in Tranche 1&2) **Duration:** 3/19/2023 – 3/31/2026 (36mos) **Description:** Anti-Slavery International (ASI) is researching, testing, and scaling up approaches that are effective in reducing forced child begging. This evidence will establish effective strategies to end forced child begging and safeguard children.

**Country:** Cote d’Ivoire **Implementer:** University of Massachusetts Lowell **Duration:** 6/1/2023 – 1/31/2025 **Description:** The University of Massachusetts Lowell will conduct a prevalence study that will provide formative qualitative research, which will inform CPC Partnership program areas and promote high-impact intervention activities to be carried out by CPC implementing partners.

The TIP Office will use up to $1,000,000 from the Child Protection Partnership allocation to support this study. **Country:** Nigeria and Ghana **Implementer:** INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION (IOM) **Duration:** 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2024 **Description:**Enhanced reintegration support to equip survivors of trafficking wishing to pursue entrepreneurship with the foundation to achieve sustainable livelihoods.

**Implementer**: BBC Media Action (BBCMA) **Duration**: 9/15/2023 – 9/14/2025 **Description**: In this new project, BBCMA will conduct a media campaign to achieve systemic change at the social, institutional, and individual level by shifting deep-rooted social attitudes that make young women and girls vulnerable to sex trafficking in Edo state; strengthening the media in Edo state to create awareness around sex trafficking through survivor-informed approaches; and empowering women and girls to make more informed decisions that improve their outcomes related to migration and economic opportunities.

**Implementer**: Pathfinder’s Justice Initiative (PJI) **Duration**: 10/1/2023 – 9/30/2026 **Description**: In this new project, PJI will provide tailored direct services to 1,000 women and girls vulnerable to trafficking in Edo State. PJI will also develop a service-provision toolkit and an expansion model for service providers across Nigeria to adapt to the changing nature of trafficking.

**Country**: Côte d’Ivoire **Implementer**: Save the Children (SC) **Duration**: 9/11/2023 – 8/31/2028 **Description**: In this new project, Save the Children will partner with two Ivorian nongovernmental organizations, Dignity and Rights for Children in Côte d’Ivoire and the National Association of Jurist Women, as well as the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children to build the capacity of Ivorian justice-sector actors, improve case management of child sex-trafficking cases, and strengthen anti-trafficking coordination.

SC will gather stakeholders to finalize the implementation plans with their input and hold workshops to update and adapt as needed. Further, SC is currently undertaking behavioral science studies in Côte d’Ivoire surrounding child labor in the cocoa industry and plans to adapt this model for prevention efforts surrounding child trafficking.

SC will ensure that strategic frameworks, standard operating procedures, and the national referral mechanism are uniform, coordinated, victim-centered, and implemented across key geographical areas in Côte d’Ivoire to benefit survivors and prevent future child trafficking.

**Implementer:**American Bar Association (ABA) **Duration:**5/1/2024 – 12/31/2025 **Description:**ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ROLI) will strengthen protection services for victims of human trafficking in The Gambia by carrying out trainings for anti-trafficking actors on identifying trafficking victims including the judiciary, police, social welfare, shelter staff, civil society organizations in partnership with the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP) and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

ABA ROLI will establish a survivor-led Review and Validation Panel (RVP), consisting of participants from survivors’ rights groups and local trafficking experts as part of their commitment to “people-centered justice. ” Where appropriate, training curricula and methodology will be reviewed by the RVP prior to the trainings to ensure they are responsive to victims’ needs and priorities.

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gov/tip-office-project-descriptions/)EAST ASIA & THE PACIFIC ISLANDS **Countries:**Laborers along the BRI **Implementer:** China Labor Watch, Inc. (CLW) – 2 of 2 **Duration:**10/01/2023 – 09/30/2025 **Description:** In this project, CLW [](https://2021-2025. state.

gov/tip-office-project-descriptions/)will work directly with overseas Chinese migrant workers most affected by forced labor in various Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries, many of whom have been stranded in BRI projects abroad amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will neither support nor promote the BRI, and instead will provide services to victims who worked or are working as part of the BRI.

Furthermore, this project will raise awareness of China’s escalated human trafficking, and particularly forced labor operations, in BRI projects during the COVID-19 pandemic.

CLW will provide training to trafficking victims, provide guidance on securing healthcare and COVID-19 vaccines, collaborate with the media to expose the trafficking crimes in BRI projects, and help labor trafficking victims to escape from exploiters, regaining their freedom.

Funding for this project will enable CLW to collect evidence through two on-site visits to meet with victims and conduct groundbreaking research to better understand the extent and impact of forced labor along the Belt and Road Initiative.

**Implementer:** International Organization for Migration (IOM) **Duration:**6/1/2022 – 5/31/2026 **Description:**IOM is contributing to the coordinated efforts of Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to combat trafficking in persons through strengthened survivor protection and services for all forms of trafficking.

This is achieved through enhanced victim identification, demand driven delivery of services and reintegration options in provinces along Thailand-Cambodia border: Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Odder Meanchey and Koh Kong. The improvement in victim identification rates is measured by comparing available data from government and non-government actors.

The quality of services and reintegration options are assessed by effectiveness of cooperation between actors and by the number of governmental and non-governmental actors participating in the counter trafficking in persons efforts.

**Implementer:** The Asia Foundation (TAF) **Duration:**3/1/2020**–**11/30/2024 **Description:** TAF is working with the four primary shelters in Laos to support the long-term economic empowerment and mobilization of victims of human trafficking, as well as expand its current work with Laos’ Ministry of Justice on human trafficking-related trainings for village mediation units.

These efforts include connecting village networks and mediation units with provincial and district legal aid offices to increase victims’ access to justice and legal assistance. This project assists Laos in establishing a structure that would provide meaningful assistance to victims in a culturally appropriate manner.

**Implementer:** Village Focus International **Duration:**10/01/2021-09/30/2025 **Description:** In Laos, more than 200,000 migrants have returned from Thailand due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite border closures, thousands of migrants continue to make the trek home to Laos each day.

Upon returning, migrants are processed through under-resourced governmental Quarantine Centers, which lack both the capacity to identify victims of trafficking and the resources to provide support to survivors. Funding for this project will directly increase the capacity of front-line Laotian stakeholders by establishing COVID-19 Task Force Committees at the Quarantine Centers.

At least 270 Health Care officials, Labor and Social Welfare officials, Immigration Police, Soldiers, and other key officials will be trained in human trafficking victim identification, data documentation, and service referral strategies. This project will be implemented with substantial cost-share from Village Focus International.

**Countries:** Malaysia and the Philippines **Implementer:** International Justice Mission (IJM) **Duration:**7/15/2021**–** 9/30/2024 **Description:** IJM is working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to improve the quality of its online sexual exploitation of children referrals to law enforcement in Malaysia and the Philippines, bringing about stronger criminal cases.

IJM is also working directly with relevant government officials in Malaysia and the Philippines to improve their capacity to combat this crime.

**Country**: Mongolia / CPC **Implementer:** World Vision **Duration:**10/1/2020 – 11/30/2024 **Description:** World Vision will support the U.S. commitments outlined in the CPC Partnership, an agreement that was developed jointly with the Government of Mongolia to support enhanced and more effective efforts to address child trafficking.

Building on the strong foundation of the Mongolian government’s anti-trafficking efforts, WV works to achieve improved, sustainable policies and practices that ensure effective interagency coordination and collaboration on child trafficking efforts; hold perpetrators of child trafficking criminally accountable; provide comprehensive and trauma-informed protective services for child victims; and prevent child trafficking from occurring.

A cost and time extension supporting World Vision in its efforts under the U.S.-Mongolia Child Protection Compact Partnership to increase capacity and collaboration of the government, civil society, and private sector stakeholders to strengthen the Government of Mongolia’s efforts to effectively prosecute and convict child traffickers.

**Country:** The Philippines **Implementer:** World Hope International **Duration:**9/30/2022 – 9/30/2024 **Description:** This project is focusing on OSEC Prevention and Protection in Luzon and Visayas in the Covid-19 Context.

**Implementer:** International Justice Mission (IJM) **Duration**: 6/1/2022**–**11/30/2025 **Description:** This program is equipping the Government of Thailand’s frontline officials to correctly and consistently identify and investigate forced labor/labor trafficking cases in line with Thailand’s trafficking in persons law and in a trauma-informed, victim-centered manner.

**Implementer:** FOCUS-TRAFCORD **Duration**: 7/1/2023**–**6/30/2026 **Implementer:** Blue Dragon **Duration:**8/15/2022 – 8/14/2025 **Description:** This project is expanding earlier efforts made through a TIP Office’s Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS) grant to help increase victim protection in Vietnam, with a particular emphasis on improving interagency collaboration on combatting trafficking in persons at the provincial level.

**Implementer:**International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) **Duration:**4/1/2023 – 3/31/2028 **Description:**[](https://2021-2025. state.

gov/tip-office-project-descriptions/)ICMEC will increase victim identification by supporting the creation of, training for, and provision of software/hardware equipment for three dedicated police units focused on online sexual exploitation of children (OSEC) in Jakarta, East Java, and Bali. The project builds on ICMEC’s TIP Office eLearning on Demand grant by translating on-demand training material into Bahasa.

It also builds a Train-the-Trainer program within the Indonesian National Police to ensure sustainability for the three OCSE units. And the project aims to increase public awareness of how to keep children safe while online working in collaboration with these new police units.

**Implementer**: New York University (NYU) **Duration**: 10/1/2023 – 9/30/2027 **Description**: This four-year, $3,998,275 IDR project would develop innovative counter sex-trafficking intervention activities that address gaps to support populations that remain underserved and vulnerable to sex trafficking in Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand, such as men and boys.

The proposed project would research the population and context and use that information to co-design, pilot, and refine activities that increase access to safer work opportunities and develop a targeted, systemic intervention that: (1) fosters physical and psychological safety; (2) diversifies the range of available livelihood opportunities; and (3) addresses the individual-level impacts of broader systemic stigma and discrimination that create enhanced vulnerabilities to sex trafficking, particularly among marginalized groups such as LBGTQI+ individuals.

NYU will partner with University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), and several strong local organizations to carry out the proposed project. **Implementer:**Village Focus International **Duration:**4/1/2024 – 11/30/2025 **Description:**VFI will support protection services in Laos by building capacity and partnerships with selected immigration officials, other key officials, and a range of civil society stakeholders.

VFI will implement this project with two components: 1) comprehensive protection services via VFI facilities and 2) training for immigration officials and other key stakeholders to identify and refer trafficking and labor exploitation victims to services.

In cooperation with civil society and government partners in Laos and Thailand, VFI will expand and enhance victim-identification strategies and referrals and provide a range of protective services at VFI’s four existing facilities.

**Country:**Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam **Duration:**4/1/2024 – 11/30/2025 **Description:**This prosecution and protection program will assist law enforcement in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam to properly identify victims of trafficking, as well as prosecute cases involving forced criminality.

**Country:**Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam **Implementer:**International Justice Mission (IJM) **Duration:**4/1/2024 – 11/30/2025 **Duration:**7/1/2024 – 11/30/2025 **Description:**This prosecution program will support Thai law enforcement and criminal justice practitioners to end impunity of transnational organized criminal groups engaged in trafficking in persons for forced criminality. ## [](https://2021-2025. state.

gov/tip-office-project-descriptions/)EUROPE & EURASIA **Country:** Regional (Romania, Bulgaria) **Implementer:** International Justice Mission (IJM) **Duration:**8/1/2023 – 7/30/2026 **Description:** Building on IJM’s current project in Romania, IJM will work collaboratively with governmental, non-governmental and grassroots stakeholders to ensure the protection of Ukrainian refugees and other vulnerable populations from human trafficking, including the Roma population, boys, men, and LGBTQI+ in Romania and Bulgaria.

The project aims to 1) Increase identification of trafficking victims and provide comprehensive trauma-informed protection services; 2) increase community-based prevention, actionable leads, and referrals for improved criminal justice investigations and victim identification; and 3) increase sustainable multi-sector partnerships to improve coordination of victim-centered investigations and prosecutions.

The project will focus on the geographical areas of Bucharest, Constanța, and Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Varna and Sofia, Bulgaria, where there are high concentrations of refugees.

**Implementer:** International Organization for Migration (IOM) **Duration:**9/1/2022 – 8/31/2026 **Description:** This project will meet the urgent need for prevention awareness-raising activities and protection assistance to trafficking victims or those vulnerable to trafficking due to the invasion of Ukraine, such as forcefully displaced persons, including Ukrainians forced to flee the country, those internally displaced, stranded third party country nationals, and vulnerable Ukrainians remaining in place.

**Implementer:** International Organization for Migration (IOM) **Duration:** 4/1/2023 – 3/31/2026 (35mos) **Description:** IOM Moldova will support local case management and investigation actors to improve their operations through collaborating around good practices and facilitating exchange of experience between regional experts.

Thus, IOM Moldova is uniquely positioned to address these needs for prevention and protection of human trafficking victims and (potential) victims to include: Improving local actors’ prevention capacities through better access to information and community-level identification and referral pathways, with a special attention to low literacy groups and vulnerable local communities.

As well as Incentivizing participation of VoTs in victim-centered, trauma-informed investigation and judicial proceedings by supporting victim protection coordinators at state-run shelters and strengthening cooperation between victims and Government of Moldova officials during investigations and judicial proceedings.

**Duration:**8/1/2024 – 7/31/2026 **Description:** Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nearly six million Ukrainians have been displaced to European countries. UNODC aims to improve the assessment, identification, and referral of TIP victims and support the effective prosecution of TIP cases, with special focus on Ukrainian nationals impacted by the conflict.

UNODC will train Ukrainian diplomatic and consular staff in Moldova, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia and will enhance connection with the corresponding National Referral Mechanisms.

**Implementer:** World Vision Inc. **Duration:**8/1/2024 – 7/31/2026 **Country:** Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia **Implementer:** Terre des Hommes (TDH) **Duration:**2/1/2018 – 4/30/2025 **Description:** TDH will set up a regional cooperation mechanism among the four participating countries and strengthen transnational protocols, through the development of adequate learning tools, capacity trainings, and intra-regional policy coordination tools, related to trafficking in persons.

The project will also support victim identification and assistance, and implement community-based awareness initiatives to assist child victims of trafficking. The regional mechanism will promote improved collaboration and coordination within the Western Balkans for early identification of victims, improved service provision, case management, and reporting.

**Implementer:** International Justice Mission (IJM) **Duration:**10/1/2024 – 9/30/2029 **Description:** Funds will support implementation to fulfill objectives of the Romania CPC, including to build capacity to prevent child trafficking in Romania; effectively investigate, prosecute, and convict perpetrators of child trafficking; proactively identify, protect, and provide comprehensive trauma-informed care for child victims; and/or promote partnership and coordination to combat child trafficking.

**Implementer:** World Vision, Inc. **Duration:**10/1/2024 – 9/30/2029 **Description:** Funds will support implementation to fulfill objectives of the Romania CPC, including to build capacity to prevent child trafficking in Romania; effectively investigate, prosecute, and convict perpetrators of child trafficking; proactively identify, protect, and provide comprehensive trauma-informed care for child victims; and/or promote partnership and coordination to combat child trafficking.

## [](https://2021-2025. state. gov/tip-office-project-descriptions/)NEAR EAST ASIA **Implementer:** International Organization for Migration (IOM) **Duration:**7/31/2023 – 7/31/2026 **Description:** IOM will lead the three UN organizations (IOM, UNODC and the International Labour Organization [ILO]) in Morocco to improve the detection, referral, protection and reintegration of victims of trafficking.

IOM aims to provide direct assistance to 90 identified victims, with reintegration of 62 domestic victims and the assisted voluntary return and reintegration of 28 foreign victims.

UNODC will focus on strengthening the Government of Morocco’s identification of victims and protect them during the investigative and prosecution phase; the ILO will help with the reintegration of survivors through vocational training and expansion of employment skills; and IOM will focus on its wheelhouse of providing protective services, including shelter and assisted voluntary return.

**Implementer:** The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) **Duration:**5/1/2022 – 5/15/2025 **Description:** This project is assisting the Algerian government to develop and implement SOPs to guide efforts to screen for and identify victims, as well as working through a train-the-trainer approach to assist social and health care workers in dealing with potential victims.

**Implementer:** International Labor Organization (ILO) **Duration:**6/16/2021**–**6/15/2025 **Description:** ILO is strengthening the identification of victims by working with the government and local NGO partners. The organization is collaborating with the government to produce guidebooks and curriculum to help ensure labor inspectors and other first responders can better identify instances of trafficking and the victims of the crime.

ILO will also advocate and provide technical assistance to amend the existing labor law to include labor protections for Egyptian and foreign domestic workers. The program also creates a fund to expand the number of shelters available to victims, will train shelter staff on how to care for victims, and will expand civil society capacity to offer vocational training and other economic reintegration services to identified victims.

**Implementer:** International Organization for Migration (IOM) **Amount:** $750,000 (+$500,000 Cost Extension) **Duration**: 4/1/2019**–**4/30/2024 **Description:** IOM is enhancing the capacities of the government to identify, assist, and protect victims of trafficking based on anti-trafficking legislation, through a national training program on protection and assistance to victims of trafficking.

They are also improving the implementation of formal procedures to screen and identify trafficking victims among vulnerable groups.

**Implementer:** University of Massachusetts – Lowell **Duration:**10/01/2021**–**9/30/2026 **Description:** The University of Massachusetts received $1,455,419 million for their project focused on reducing human trafficking among domestic workers in Tunisia by building the capacity of justice sector professionals and providing trauma-informed services for survivors.

The program focuses on training and capacity-building for policymakers, legal professionals, local stakeholders, and civil society organizations, as well as an information-sharing campaign for policymakers.

**Implementer:** Heartland Alliance International (HAI) **Duration:** 3/20/2023 – 3/31/2026 (36mos) **Description:** HAI will build on its current TIP Office supported programming, including the NGO Anti-Trafficking National Network, to coordinate identification, referral, and provision of services to victims of human trafficking.

HAI proposes to provide survivors of human trafficking with mental health/psychosocial services and would also provide survivors with legal assistance and shelter services on as-needed basis. HAI has had a good experience coordinating with SEED Foundation, with the organizations cross-referring cases to their respective territories (Federal Iraq [HAI] versus Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) [SEED]).

**Implementer:**SEED Foundation**Amount:**$3,000,000 **Duration:**4/7/2023 – 4/30/2025 (24mos) **Description:**SEED, working in the Kurdish region, will provide comprehensive case management services to survivors of human trafficking as well as direct shelter, legal and psychosocial services, and legal assistance. SEED will also continue its work with the KRG authorities to increase the awareness of human trafficking among