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Anti-Trafficking Programs in South Asia: Appropriate Activities, Indicators and Evaluation Methodologies

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The Population Council, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) led a highly participatory approach to explore appropriate activities that address the problem of human trafficking in South Asia. A Technical Consultative Meeting was held in Kathmandu, Nepal September 11-13, 2001 to discuss these issues. Approximately 50 representatives from South Asian institutions, United Nations agencies, and international and local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) attended the meeting.

The meeting was structured around three practical objectives:
  1. To clarify conceptual frameworks used to define trafficking.
  2. To identify actual and potential intervention models for the South Asian context that: a) protect the rights of trafficked persons, and b) empower current and returned trafficked persons and persons who are vulnerable to trafficking.
  3. To identify programme evaluation methodologies to measure the performance and impact of programmatic interventions.

This report summarises the principal points from each of the papers and captures some of the discussion points that emerged from each panel presentation.