o We believe that all anti-trafficking activities should have a human rights based approach to trafficking.
o Anti-trafficking programs and migration legislation should underline a
comprehensive victim-centred approach.
o The challenge to provide adequate programs on youth trafficking prevention requires a multiagency approach - both at the national as well as on the regional level. All relevant actors:
non-governmental groups and organizations, national ministries and departments of education, and other governmental institutions should
be involved in designing and implementing antitrafficking
responses.
o Anti-trafficking programs must be
socially adequate, culturally sensitive and sustainable.
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Bulgarian Network for Child and Youth Trafficking Prevention is the first registered association of NGOs in Bulgaria whose aim and mission focuses solely on youth trafficking prevention.
We are a newly established (in 2006) network of NGOs, groups and individuals, working on child and youth trafficking prevention via education and training, advocacy and lobbying, cross-border cooperation, building public-private partnerships and community asset building.
BNCYTP conducts programs with the following two objectives:
• Trafficking prevention through lobbying, education, outreach, training, exchanges, and advocacy.
• Trafficking victim assistance through
programs of rescue, reintegration and
rehabilitation
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Campaigning for Awareness Raising
Raising awareness is crucial for child and youth trafficking prevention. In addition to training grassroots activists and social workers, law enforcement officers and judicial authorities, national police forces, border guards and customs officials, we should also influence people's attitudes and offer them adequate information
about the complex effects of human trafficking.
That could be done in various ways, depending very much on the local situation that each program needs to
deal with. BNCYTP follows culturally sensitive approach to campaign designing.
Education and Training
BNCYTP works to:
· Improve the enrollment in quality non-formal and formal education of children and youth at risk of being trafficked or exploited
· Build bridges between formal and non-formal education programs.
· Provide capacity building to civil society organizations allowing them to protect and defend children's rights.
· Use new technologies for information and communication improve educational and advocacy services for children at risk.
· Promote effective collaboration among civil society organizations and government actors in order to ensure that quality educational opportunities are available to vulnerable to trafficking young people and children.
· Teaching Trafficking in Small Community Groups.
· Gender-based Approach to Trafficking
Prevention.
· Assessment of Public Attitudes to Human Trafficking.
· Stimulating Creativity and Action for Community Ideas for Trafficking Prevention
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Research
· Optimizing current research tools and methodologies to understand and monitor trafficking, maintaining a child and youth-centered approach.
· Developing specific research methodologies in investigating child and youth trafficking.
· Organizing data collection, publishing data and promoting its use.
· Developing statistics as a public good to enhance monitoring capacity.
· Law reform process on trafficking.
· Fostering close interaction between researchers and policy makers.
Promoting and Facilitating
Institutional Cooperation
and Public-Private
Partnerships
BNCYTP follows the multi-agency
approach in order to provide adequate
programs on youth trafficking
prevention. Such approach requires
concerted cooperation among
nongovernmental groups and
organizations, national ministries and
departments of education, and other
governmental institutions.
· BNCYTP works to improve the
capacity, collaboration and visibility of key civil society actors to combat
human trafficking.
· BNCYTP brings together a variety of
strategic actors: children, youth,
families and teachers; communities
and communes; civil society and
government, as well as the media.
Empowering Communities
· Community development and human rights: child and youth trafficking prevention via poverty reduction strategies
· Social inclusion and participation of disadvantaged communities
· Education and life skill training
· Vocational training
· Adoption of re-integration strategies for trafficked or exploited children and young people
Advocacy and Lobbying on local and national levels
· Advocacy to ensure that existing laws and safeguards protecting child rights are enforced.
· Lobbying for legislation changes on issues such as crime prosecution, birth registration, the education of
girls, child trafficking and child rights, social inclusion of
vulnerable groups, youth participation and youth involvement in decision-making process.
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