United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

East Asia and Pacific

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		Project Code and Sector Project Background and Justification Immediate Objective, Outputs and Main Activities Execution modality and implementation arrangements

PROJECT CHILDHOOD: Protection Pillar: 'Enhancing law enforcement capacity for national and transnational action to identify and effectively act upon travelling child-sex offenders in the Mekong' (XSPT33)

1. Project Code and Sector

2. Project Background and Justification

An effective response to safeguarding vulnerable children and bringing perpetrators of child-sexual exploitation to justice must minimally comprise of three cross-linked pillars - Prevention, Protection and Recovery. This project will take forward the Protection Pillar of Project Childhood and deliver a consolidated package of capacity building to Governments and their respective law enforcement agencies through two complementary components. Component 1 will focus on the delivery of technical assistance activities responding to key legislative, training and cooperation gaps and needs of the target countries. Component 2 will comprise of a number of time-bound specialized operational activities aimed at pooling international and regional investigative resources to specifically target travelling child-sex offenders and the mechanisms and intermediaries that support and facilitate their activities. The aim is to significantly expand the intelligence base around this closed community of offenders to more effectively interdict and prosecute those that seek to perpetrate or support this most insidious crime. This initiative comprises a partnership between UNODC and Interpol to maximize the effectiveness of the project utilizing the combined and coordinated strengths of their respective mandates and capacity.

3. Immediate Objective, Outputs and Main Activities

The overall objective of the project is to enhance law enforcement capacity for national and transnational action to identify and effectively act upon travelling child-sex offenders in the Mekong

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE COMPONENT

Outcome 1: Legislative framework meets international standards and obligations

Outcome 2: Informed and capable front-line, law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges

Outcome 3: Mechanisms established to promote cooperation between criminal justice agencies within and across borders

OPERATIONAL COMPONENT

Outcome 4: Joint Investigation Teams (JITs) established and operational

4. Execution modality and implementation arrangements

INTERPOL and UNODC will implement the Project Childhood: Protection Pillar activities in accordance with an Agreement concluded between the two Organizations and on the basis of the outputs and responsibilities described within this Project Document.

UNODC will be responsible for overall financial management and administrative reporting of the Project and be accountable to the project donor for the appropriate use of project funds in accordance with UN Rules and Procedures and the additionally the specific terms of any donor Financing Agreement.

The impact of Project Childhood will be multiplied by close coordination and collaboration between the Protection and Prevention pillars. Implementing Partners of both pillars will meet on a quarterly basis to share lessons learned and consider how joint activities can be undertaken to facilitate a holistic response to CST.

In addition, an annual Project Childhood Coordinating Committee (PCCC) meeting will be held involving representatives from partner governments, the Implementing Partners, and other stakeholders. The logistics and costs of the meeting are to be shared equally between the Protection and Prevention pillars. Draft Annual Workplans will be considered by the PCCC with a view to identification of opportunities for collaboration prior to endorsement. The PCCC is intended as a strategic meeting to set the strategy of the projects' work for the year ahead. It is also an opportunity for stakeholders to reflect on the impact of the project in the past year and how it can be improved or modified in the year ahead.