Date: 1st April, 2024
This study was undertaken across the three countries of India, Nepal and Bangladesh as a baseline to a proposed intervention project titled MUKTI South Asia funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons implemented by ECPAT Luxembourg and its partners. The study sought to establish a baseline point on the following expected project outcomes:
– Improved coordination exists among state and civil society anti-TIP stakeholders (from community to national levels) to ensure resources are effectively managed and distributed to survivors of child sex trafficking.
Strengthened victim centred services provide more responsive and needs based assistance to survivors of child sex trafficking.
– Using the mixed method design, the study surveyed 375 vulnerable adolescent girls, 116 survivors of child sex trafficking and 223 community level stakeholders. Qualitative data was collected from 90 government and NGO functionaries (in-depth individual interviews), 150 mothers (focus-group discussion) and 21 survivors of child trafficking (case studies).
The study was done jointly with SFC Social Development Forum, a partner of SIGMA Foundation.