TRACK4TIP programme, an anti-trafficking initiative

Project: TRACK4TIP initiative is a three-year (2019-2022), initiative by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and supported by the United States Department of State. The project is being implemented and reaches eight countries across South America and the Caribbean with actions at the national and regional level among Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Curaçao and Aruba.

Donor: US Department of State - JTIP

Duration: 3 years (beginning in November 2019)

Total Budget: USD 3,000,000

Objective: enhance the regional criminal justice response to human trafficking among migration flows within the beneficiary countries following a victim-centered and multidisciplinary approach working at the regional and local levels to identify, prevent and prosecute cases.

Main activities: To achieve this, TRACK4TIP proposes the implementation of seven main activities organized under three specific objectives that together make it easier for each of the eight beneficiary countries to achieve the main objective of strengthening their criminal justice response in cases of trafficking in persons involving Venezuelan victims migrating in the region.

Objective 1- Capacity Building

To improve victim identification and national referral mechanisms at the country level to better identify and safely report human trafficking cases in the context of migration flows at ports of entry, transit points, and destination communities in beneficiary countries.

Activity 1

Enhancement of identification and referral mechanisms at ports of entry, transit points, and destination communities in beneficiary countries to safely report human trafficking cases.

Activity 2

A Capacity Building strategy on the use of the National Referral mechanisms to safely report human trafficking cases at ports of entry, transit points, and destination communities.

Objective 2 - Knowledge and research

Provide law enforcement and prosecuting authorities in beneficiary countries with reliable information on the modus operandi of criminal networks or individuals that are associated with human trafficking among populations migrating within the region.

Activity 3

Country narratives on the context, investigations, and prosecutions for human trafficking cases at ports of entry, transit points, and destination communities among migration flows.

Activity 4

A Sub-regional Threat Assessment on the current context, dynamics, and trends of human trafficking cases among migration flows involving Venezuelans.

Objective 3 – International Coordination and Cooperation

Promote at the national and regional level, new investigations and prosecutions for human trafficking cases among migration flow involving Venezuelans establishing liaison between National coordination mechanisms and law enforcement agencies and prosecutors with authority to investigate and prosecute TIP at beneficiary countries.

Activity 5

Promotion of current networks and task forces to enhance coordination of law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and national coordination mechanisms.

Activity 6

Operationalization of new investigations and prosecutions through the communication channels and coordination mechanisms created by the project.

Activity 7

Tracking and monitoring information on the progress of the criminal justice response to investigate and prosecute human trafficking cases in the context of migration flows.

 

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