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Strada
A project to encourage the reintegration of female
victims of trafficking into the social and labour market contexts

Project summary | Action planned | Contact person | Local partner

PROJECT SUMMARY
Presented by the Province of Pisa, the ‘Strada project for the reintegration of female victims of trafficking into the social and labour market contexts’ is an equal opportunities initiative which, as can be evinced from the title, aims to break down the social barriers to the reinsertion of a specific usership into the social scenario and labour market. The target users are women caught up in trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation who decide to escape the conditions imposed by criminal organizations in order to take refuge in the social protection provided by the legislative tools of the Consolidation Act on Immigration (Legislative Decree N° 286/98).
The Strada project is an extension of the experience of the Sally project implemented in the territory of the Province of Pisa in the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 with financing from the Assistance and Integration Programme pursuant to Section 18 of Legislative Decree N° 286/98: permission to stay for reasons of social protection. The aim of the Sally project was to provide an integrated support network to women involved in street-based prostitution and especially female victims of trafficking.
In order to fulfil its objectives, the Equal programme will promote the insertion of female victims of trafficking into the social and labour market contexts using the resources provided by the partners involved and the existing Sally project network which already involves local authorities, law and order enforcement agencies, local health centers, lay and Catholic associations and the world of work in interactive relations in which all the players are equally important to the successful outcome of the project.

ACTION PLANNED
The aim of the Province of Pisa’s Strada project is to fight the complex phenomenon of prostitution/trafficking by encouraging victims to participate in social and labour market scenario inclusion processes and thus to regain their autonomy. The project will follow a multi-faceted strategy which will be implemented in three territorial contexts (the Province of Pisa, the Province of Potenza and the Province of Trento), at national level and at a cross-border level in the cooperation with Dutch, Austrian and French partners.
As far as the actions directly aimed at female victims of trafficking are concerned, the project will set up targeted activities to improve existing actions and implement new models to facilitate access to the world of work. This will be the specific focus of the project.

Furthermore, the involvement of institutional players and members of the local private social sector, the project aims to set up:

- Monitoring of the phenomenon, information dissemination and social orientation activities (in the Provinces of Pisa, Potenza and Trento);
- A Drop-in Centre (Province of Pisa) an innovative help desk model to act as a filter between prostitution and the services available to support victims wishing to escape exploitation;
- Activities of taking charge of victims, reception and accompaniment towards autonomy (Province of Pisa);
- Professional orientation activities, practical on-the-job training and insertion into the labour market (Provinces of Pisa and Trento);

Obviously the actions are not only aimed at the final beneficiaries, they also make a significant contribution to the innovation and improvement of the relative system strategies and support models, as well as the professional figures involved. In order to ensure that this contribution is properly exploited, the project will avail itself of the scientific knowledge of Associazione On the Road and the technical and coordination expertise of Associazione TECLA.
Other important actions include accompaniment activities, the methodological supervision of each team and the implementation of joint and integrated training activities for operators from the three territories.
The transverse activities of communication and mainstreaming of the project include: creation of the logo, three public meetings and press conference at project launch; 6 issues of project newsletter; dissemination of information to final beneficiaries in 4 languages; 3 technical policy-making workshops; 3 publications containing reports on the workshops; 4 cross-border seminars; liaison with the National Coordination Board for Prostitution and Trafficking; implementation of final cross-border convention on trafficking and presentation of project results; final dissemination of the results of the project via publication of a book and CD ROM.

Contact person
Marco Bufo c/o Association “On The Road” - Scientific Supervisor and Referent of Transnational Activities
Tel. +39 861 79.66.66
fax +39 861 76.51.12
E-email: mail@ontheroadonlus.it
Address: Via delle Lancette, 27-27° 64014 Martinsicuro (TE) - Italy

Giovanni Bursi c/o Association “TECLA” - National Coordinator
Tel. +39 348 40.22.834
fax +39 6 42.01.09.06
E-mail: giovanni.bursi@libero.it
Address: Via Boncompagni, 93 00187 Roma

Serena Vella c/o Provincia di Pisa - Technical support
Tel. +39 50 929201
Fax +39 50 44123 e.mail: serena.vella@katamail.com
Address: P.zza Vittorio Emanuele II , 14 56100 Pisa Italy

Project summary | Action planned | Contact person | Local partner