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Joint Project between the 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.
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. Since different actors in the international arena most often focus on different aspects concerning human trafficking and therefore initiate different measures to fight the crime of human trafficking, cooperation and the establishment of a broad network is of high importance to fight human trafficking effectively.
Hence, the TF-THB and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are currently implementing 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. The project will be focusing on both formalised and non-formalised cooperation mechanisms and analyse existing
Memoranda of Understanding (MOU's) in the Baltic Sea Region.
The aim of our joint project
This project aims at strengthening cooperation between different governmental institutions and nongovernmental actors within and between the CBSS Member States. Only with improved cooperation victims can be adequately assisted and protected.
By collecting and analysing data through country assessment missions, the project will develop assessment reports for each Member State of the CBSS on the existing cooperation mechanisms between state actors, in particular law enforcement, and NGOs.
The project will be concluded with a regional conference bringing together relevant actors from civil society, state actors especially from the criminal justice response institutions but also the social welfare institutions and international organisations operating in the region. The conclusions of the country assessments and recommendations on how to improve the cooperation models will be presented at this conference. 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. The possibility of a joint Regional Cooperation Model in this field will be looked at as a potential second phase of this project.
NEWS - Forthcoming Joint CBSS TF-THB / UNODC Conference 7-8 December 2009, Stockholm. The Conference will present the findings of the regional assessment of the joint project with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on fostering NGO and Law Enforcement Cooperation in Preventing and Combating Human Trafficking in, from and to the Baltic Sea Region. For more information please contact the CBSS TF-THB Secretariat.
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