PROJECT EQUAL LIFE

OBJECTIVES
The project aims to create and experiment a transferable methodology which, starting from initial contact, leads on to guidance, training, work induction and accommodation, and continues with the social integration of women victims of trafficking who have already completed a programme to quit forced prostitution – Art. 18 L. 40/98 Immigration Regulations.

AREA
The project intends to work principally in the area of the City of Turin and the inner belt.

DURATION
36 months: July 2002 – June 2005

This project is the work of a Development Partnership consisting of:
Provincia di Torino
Confcooperative -Unione Provinciale di Torino
Associazione Tampep O.N.L.U.S.
Casa di Carità Arti e Mestieri
Città di Torino
Associazione Compagnia delle Opere
Città di Moncalieri
Ufficio per la Pastorale dei Migranti Curia Arcidiocesana
Gruppo Abele
Cicsene
Università degli Studi di Torino

And by a Steering Committee for guidance and promotion, consisting of:
Prefettura di Torino
Procura della Repubblica di Torino
Questura di Torino
Comando Provinciale dell’Arma dei Carabinieri
CGIL CISL and UIL
Consulta femminile Regionale del Piemonte
Consulta femminile Comunale di Torino
Associazione Promozione Donna
APID (Association of Women Entrepreneurs)
CNA (Italian National Confederation of Artisans and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises)
Confartigianato Torino – Unione Artigiana
Commissione regionale per le Pari Opportunita’
Zonta International

PLANNED ACTIVITIES
The project is divided into the following main stages:

Macro-stage 1: monitoring the current situation and best practices already tested in other regional and Community situations;

Macro-stage 2: creation of a methodological programme of operations to assist women victims of trafficking and forced prostitution by setting up individually targeted workgroups in order to develop intervention models which, based on best practices experimented in the local, national and transnational context, concern: health, psychological and legal assistance, initial contact, guidance, skills and training assessment, work induction, accommodation, cultural integration, the promotion of desegregation, and social, employment and professional integration. Representatives of the beneficiaries and of the Steering Committee will take part in the sessions, in order to bring together the needs of the beneficiaries with those of the labour market, creating a model for intervening in policies and the implementation of regulations;

Macro-stage 3: involvement of the economic and trade-union system to facilitate and encourage integration into the jobs market by raising awareness among companies through trade unions and trade associations about the problem of trafficking, using a methodology to obtain horizontal and gender mainstreaming;

Macro-stage 4: experimentation of the methodology on women who have escaped from trafficking, in order to develop a model that can be adapted to the needs of the target group, bearing in mind future transferability to an indefinite number of beneficiaries, and making it exportable to other situations, carrying out an innovative experiment: a “credit card” with a personal programme for social, employment and housing integration for each woman involved;

Macro-stage 5: implementation of vertical mainstreaming in cooperation with the Steering Ccommittee in order to make the best practices and most significant experiments of the project transferable, affecting training, employment and social policies and systems at the European, national, and sub-national levels;

Macro-stage 6: awareness raising, communication, publication and spreading knowledge of the network, with the following objectives:
- promoting activities to raise awareness among the institutions of the range of problems, particularly that of women victims of trafficking;
- launching communication campaigns for public opinion in general;
- promoting the spread and implementation of the actions and methodologies experimented.
- expanding the network;