Who Funds Re/integration? Ensuring sustainable services for trafficking victims
Type
Article (revue, blog, etc.)
Pays
Albanie,
Macédoine du Nord,
Roumanie,
Serbie,
Kosovo sous administration des Nations Unies (résolution 1244 du Conseil de sécurité)
Région
Europe de l’Est et du Sud-Est et Asie centrale
Organisation
Anti-Trafficking Review
Année
2014
Language
Anglais
This article discusses the critical importance of re/integration services in the lives of trafficked persons and as central to an effective anti-trafficking response. It outlines how support and resources for re/integration services have so far not been widely available and the impact of this on trafficked persons. The article also discusses different strategies used within one re/integration initiative—the Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programme (TVRP)—to promote sustainable re/integration services given the limited (and now declining) funding for re/integration in the Balkans.
These strategies, which have met varying degrees of success, include:
- Advocating for government funding;
- Leveraging private-sector funding and contributions; and
- Establishing social enterprises to fund re/integration services.
The article concludes by advocating greater attention to re/integration services for trafficked persons, including working creatively and collaboratively with civil society, government, the private sector and donors, to ensure that re/integration services are conceptualised, implemented and funded in ways that are sustainable and, thus, offer critical support to trafficked persons.
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