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enhanced protection/security system appropriate to the critical needs of beneficiaries,
establishing pre-integration and post-integration practices, including community-based
alternative living situations, and assisting the partner Indian NGO in sustaining its achieved
level of expertise and quality of care through self-assessment and self-training mechanisms.
63. In Cambodia, Terre des Hommes operates a programme together with the German
organization ACT, providing community education to the local authorities, persons in the
community and children to discuss the real-life situation of children and to share what each
individual can do based on their obligation and responsibility to help their children from
trafficking. Advocacy programmes are also established to help support and enforce the law
effectively. The methodology used is the village “safety net” programme. Villagers form their
own mechanism (child protection network) to help protect their children. Children are then
integrated into the programme by working as child peer educators and participants in the
community education against child trafficking. They then actively work as community educators
to educate and to disseminate information on trafficking to other children and communities.
They do this through role play and performances on related issues, and thus become the key
people and a network for the community to prevent and protect children. The goal is to ensure
that children and communities become more aware of the issues and help disseminate the
information and their understanding of them to others in the community. These child protection
networks are set up by communities to help prevent and protect their children from trafficking
and focus on high-risk and child victims of trafficking. Through the different activities realized,
the organizers hope to contribute to the development of effective policies and practices against
child trafficking, and to promote the rights of children in Cambodia. The close cooperation with
the local authorities, especially the village chief and police in the community, ensures the safety
of the children concerned and the success of the programme.
64. ECPAT, a network of 83 locally based organizations, operates in over 70 countries around
the world for the realization of the rights of children, and focuses on the protection of children
from commercial sexual exploitation. ECPAT provides support in the form of care and services
for child victims throughout the process of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual recovery.
65. One example is the Transit Home in Taiwan facilitating reintegration of child victims in
society. Those who have completed a rehabilitation programme provided by the Government
will enter the reintegration programme on a voluntary basis through a contractual relationship
between the provider and the participant. They can stay in the shelter for between 1 and
21 months. ECPAT also provides drop-in centres with partner organizations (such as ASK and
Aparajeyo in Bangladesh, Pakistan Paediatric Association in Peshawar, Pakistan, and PEACE in
Sri Lanka) for children at risk and those who have been victims of abuse and exploitation. A
range of services are provided such as non-formal education, nutrition, medical services,
psychosocial assistance as well as recreation activities. These centres are open for a few hours
during the day and children are encouraged to visit whenever possible.
66. In Nepal, ECPAT operates with partner Maiti Nepal a school from primary to high school
level in the same compound as the shelter for the children. In Bangladesh, ECPAT provides legal
support to the children who have been victims of commercial sexual exploitation, together with
partner Ain O Salish Kendro (ASK) in Dhaka. In Colombia, ECPAT and Fundación Renacer
developed a child rights-based programme for children victims of sexual commercial
exploitation in three cities. It is composed of five units: outreach, medical centre, short-term
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