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PHILIPPINES. National Strategic Plan of Action Against Trafficking in Persons (2004-2010) Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking. National Strategic Plan of Action Against Trafficking.

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  1. PHILIPPINES National Strategic Plan of Action Against Trafficking in Persons (2004-2010) Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking

  2. National Strategic Plan of Action Against Trafficking “Eliminating trafficking in persons especially women and children and ensuring their recovery , rehabilitation and re-integration into mainstream society”

  3. Background • The Philippines is a State Party to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons having ratified the same in December, 2002 • Passed the “Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act” inMay 2003 • Created the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking in Persons (IACAT) • Developed a national action plan - The National Strategic Action Plan Against Trafficking in Persons

  4. Objectives of the Stratplan • Promote public awareness and sustain collective/coordinated advocacy efforts • Coordinate the maximum effective and efficient implementation of the law • Mobilize and forge partneships and cooperation among different agencies involved in the areas of prevention, protection, prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of trafficked persons • Establish and institutionalize an effective and efficient referral and tracking system of incidents of trafficking through all the stages of intervention • Institutionalize a central database and a shared information system on trafficking

  5. Strategies • ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION • CAPACITY BUILDING • DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT • ALLIANCE BUILDING AND NETWORKING • RESEARCH, POLICY STUDIES AND DOCUMENTATION • INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS

  6. Components/Strategic Activities • PREVENTION - to create awareness, knowledge and commitment by all stakeholders to facilitate wide support and participation in comabating TIP • developing and disseminating IEC materials • initiating and sustaining public information • organizing and/or strengthening community networks • establishing reporting and referral system • Document fraud examination acquisition • continually conducts pre-departure marriage counselling

  7. Components/Strategic Activities • PROTECTION/LAW ENFORCEMENT/PROSECUTION - to create an environment where trafficked persons especially women and children are protected and ensure that institutional mechanisms for their protection are in place and operational • Expanding community protection networks • Enhancing capacities of frontline workers to address TIP • Developing manuals and protocols • Setting-up special units and task forces • Establishing hotlines and quick response teams • Strengthening inter-agency coordination • Institutionalizing child-friendly and gender-sensitive criminal justice system • Increasing bilateral cooperation with other countries (MOUs; creation of a task Force to address the isuue of TIP in Japan; MOU with Kuwait re: protection of Filipino citizens; continuous consultation with countries with large no. of Filipinos)

  8. Components/Strategic Activities • RECOVERY AND REINTEGRATION - to ensure the recovery and and reintegration oftrafficked persons into their respective families and communities • Developing local programs for recovery and reintegration • Increasing access to employment oportunities • Strengthening/expanding halfway houses and shelters • Preparing families and communities

  9. Implementation Arrangements • Developing policies, measures and programs for the prevention of trafficking, protection and support of trafficked persons and effective investigation and prosecution of traffickers through concerned government agencies • Localizing trafficking initiatives through local government units (local laws/ordinances) • Forging strategic partnerships with NGOs and other stakeholders • Involving media, civil society and the private sector

  10. Coordination and Monitoring • The IACAT coordinates and monitors the implementation of all activities relating to the implementation of the stratplan against trafficking • Regular consultative meetings are conducted with Government Agencies and NGOs • Developing reporting system for implementing trafficking initiatives from the local to national level • Standardizing statistical data and collection towards creating a national/central data base

  11. Thank you and Mabuhay! Atty. Robert L. Larga Department of Justice Atty. Edna Mae G. Lazaro Department of Foreign Affairs

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