PARTNER TRANSNAZIONALI - GENDER STREET

Project Improving Future Job Opportunities
for Victims of Trafficking in Persons
Humanitas-BLinN, Novib-BLinN and
Tampep International Foundation, The Netherlands

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PROJECT SUMMARY
One of the main problems that victims of trafficking in persons and forced prostitution face in the Netherlands, is their limited freedom of choice and the limited possibilities to work on their future again. Very little is done to support these women in the field of education and work experience. The DP aims to work on this problem from the different experiences of each organisation. The activities will be adjusted to the needs, interests and capacities of the target group. Within the project new experimental training models will be developed, specifically for this target group, with the aim to strengthen their position on the labour market. Furthermore, a direct link will be made with the labour market in the countries of origin, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Besides that, at the European level a start will be made to strengthen a European network among organisations and institutions providing (re)integration support for these women.

The overall aim of the project is to improve the integration possibilities of victims of trafficking in persons and forced prostitution into the labour market in the Netherlands or in their countries of origin.

Specific aims are:

- To offer integrated education and job training possibilities;
- To improve the access to the labour market in the countries of origin;
- And mainstreaming towards the Dutch government and the European Union on the issue of labour possibilities for victims of trafficking in persons and forced prostitution;

The target group of the project are the persons that have become victims of trafficking in human beings and/or forced prostitution in the Netherlands. This include both the persons that pressed charges against their traffickers and are included in the so-called B-9 programme, but also others that decided not to do so or that have applied for a prolongation of their stay. Some of them do have the permission to stay in the Netherlands, but they do not have access to social services. All these persons, with legal, semi-legal or irregular status, form part of the target group of this project.

ACTIVITIES
The activities that will be carried out are research, networking, development of new training models, improving the access to the existing training possibilities, lobby and dissemination. At the international level, experiences will be exchanged with projects in Italy, Austria and different countries of origin.

In detail, the following activities will be carried out:
- Creation of advisory board;
- Realisation of needs assessment, first among assistance organisation and then among the target group itself;
- Research on labour market in some countries of origin;
- Inventory of existing education and training possibilities and elaboration of agreements for the participation of trafficked persons;
- Inventory of possibilities for voluntary work;
- Creation of specific training programme for peer educator (Fenarete project);
- Creation of specific training on enterprises;
- Individual accompaniment and evaluation of the participants;
- Evaluation of all project activities;
- Dissemination activities: publication, leaflets, public events
- Mainstreaming activities: lobby proposals and discussions with policy makers
- Transnational activities with projects in Pisa, Turin and Vienna;

EXPECTED RESULTS
- Support to at least 100 trafficked persons in the field of education and training in the Netherlands
- Support to at least 25 trafficked persons for return and reintegration in their county of origin
- Creation of cooperation structures in the field of reintegration with at least four countries of origin
- Comprehensive overview of existing education and training possibilities in the Netherlands
- Experimental training programme for peer educators developed, implemented and evaluated
- Specific lobby proposals developed towards national and European level, and participation in existing lobby activities of other organisations
- Organisation and participation in different transnational activities.
Lobby issues:
- Social assistance included in Dutch legislation, independent on the judicial procedures related to the traffickers.
- Permission to work during their stay in the Netherlands
- Access to all types of education and training opportunities
- Improve the cooperation between different institutions at the national and international level

Contact person DP
Sandra Claassen
Humanitas - BLinN
Postbox 71
1000 AB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 20 52.31.100
Fax +31 20 62.27.367
Email: s.claassen@lb.humanitas.nl

Project summary | Activities | Expected results | Contact person | Local partners