Joint TF-THB and UNODC Project

Fostering NGO-Law Enforcement Cooperation in Preventing and Combating Human Trafficking in, from and to the Baltic Sea Region

We have the great pleasure to inform you about the successful completion of the joint project between Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings (TF-THB) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Fostering NGO-Law Enforcement Cooperation in Preventing and Combating Human Trafficking in, from and to the Baltic Sea Region.

The project culminated in the publication of a comprehensive regional assessment report entitled Human Trafficking in the Baltic Sea Region: State and Civil Society Cooperation on Victims Assistance and Protection.

We hope that you will find the report to be a useful tool in assessing existing cooperation, highlighting best practices and identifying where these can be applied. We invite you to circulate information about this report and its findings to relevant colleagues and to your partner organisations.

Cooperation between relevant actors

Global problems such as trafficking in human beings can only be successfully fought against through a broad collaboration between various relevant actors including members of civil society, state actors and international organisations. Hence, the TF-THB and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) implemented a joint preparatory regional project on fostering NGO and law enforcement cooperation in preventing and combating human trafficking in, from and to the Baltic Sea Region.

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The project focused on both formalised and non-formalised cooperation mechanisms and analysed existing Memoranda of Understanding (MoU's) in the Baltic Sea Region. The development of a Model Memoranda of Understanding is one of the outcomes of this project. The project aimed at strengthening cooperation between different governmental institutions and nongovernmental actors within and between the CBSS Member States.

By exploring our current national referral mechanisms and in what way they can be improved we hope that ultimately the number of trafficked victims can be reduced in the Baltic Sea Region.

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