Association for Developing Alternative Practices for Reintegration and Education
Annual Activity Report – 2007
The year of 2007 represented for ADPARE a continuation of the efforts undergone to fight trafficking in persons. The main activity developed by the organization, as similar to precedent years was that of developing individualized protection and assistance programmes with the purpose of reintegrating victims of trafficking in human beings. The ADPARE beneficiaries have received specialized assistance, both in crisis situation and with long duration, the aim being that of ensuring physical, emotional and economic security for the targeted victims.
The interest for research and elaboration of training materials on tackling trafficking in human beings was maintained as an important component of the activities developed by ADPARE, the projects implemented in the reporting period, in partnership with other NGOs and International Organizations, had the scope of facilitating the access to resources in the field both for professionals and the general public.
In the area of prevention of trafficking in human beings, ADPARE established as partner of campaigns at national and trans-national level, the projects partners being both state institutions, NGOs and International Organizations. In the same year (2007), ADPARE participated to the Inter-ministerial Working Group sessions and contributed to the establishment of national specific standards for the trafficking victims’ assistance and protection provision. By taking part in national and international conferences, the ADPARE representatives triggered mass media interest in the trafficking in persons phenomenon and the associated consequences it has over the people having been victimized.
We take this opportunity to thank our partners, grantors, individual donors and volunteer workers for the support and expressed interest in our activities.
ASSISTANCE AND PROTECTION FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS
„The MERIS HOUSE”- protection and assistance services for victims of trafficking in persons
Project description:
Started in November 2006, the project proposed to consolidate the private-public partnership with the aim of ensuring specialized protection and assistance services for victims of trafficking in persons at Giurgiu county level.
Partners
The General Direction for Social Assistance and Child Protection Girugiu county,
CARITAS Bucharest Association,
The National Agency against Trafficking in Persons
Vicenza-Bucharest– Diocesi Solidali Association, Italy
Beneficiaries
Women victims of trafficking in human beings
The personnel of the Transit, Emergency Assistance and Protection Centre for Persons at Risk, located in Giurgiu.
Activities
Specific assistance services for the victims social inclusion: residential care, medical assistance, psychological assistance, legal assistance, material assistance, school reinsertion and vocational counselling
Professional training for the staff members of the Transit, Emergency Assistance and protection Centre for Persons at Risk, Giurgiu on specialized assistance provision for victims of trafficking in persons.
Duration: November 2006-October 2007
The project was financed with the support Vicenza-Bucharest – Diocesi Solidali Association in Italy.
“Recovery and independent living for victims of trafficking in persons”
Project description:
As a component of the Trafficking in Persons Victims Reintegration Programme, applied to South-Eastern Europe, initiated by “King Baudouin” Foundation, the project proposed to develop a model of practices in providing assistance and support services for victims of human trafficking originating from Romania. Having a 2 years implementation period, the project aimed to establish a complex mechanism for monitoring the progresses in assistance of the targeted victims according to three phases of the (re) programme: crisis, transition and final/re-integration phase.
Partners in Romania
the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Mission in Romania
The National Agency against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP)
Partners of the Trafficking in persons Victims Reintegration Programme, in the South-Eastern Europe:
“Young Generation” Association, Timisoara, Romania
ANIMUS Association , Sofia, Bulgaria
NadjaCenter Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
Tjeter Vizion, Elbasan, Albania
Different & Equal, Tirana, Albania
Open Gate, Skopie, Macedonia
Atina, Belgrad, Serbia
Beneficiaries
Women and men identified as victims of human trafficking through all exploitation types; victims’ families.
Activities
Residential assistance (shelter) granted by the protective housing run by ADPARE;
Emotional Support and accompaniment in all reintegration initiatives;
Juridical assistance: education on Human Rights and victim associated rights; juridical counselling; representation in the courts of law (both in penal and civil causes);
Psychological intervention in crisis;
Individual and group psychological counselling;
Family counselling
Mediation of the victim’s relationship with the family;
Medical assistance specific services;
Social assistance: financial support, re-issue of identity papers; education on social protection means and rights;
Study completion;
Professional training/ professional re-conversion;
Professional reinsertion.
Duration: April 2007- March 2008
The project was financed with the support of “King Baudouin”Foundation in Belgium
SENS- “Promoting Good Practices in Human Trafficking Victim Identification and Reintegration”
Assistance and reintegration of trafficking victim’s component
Project description:
Established in 2002, as an Ecumenical Association of Churches –AIDRom, the SENS programme continually brought its contribution to providing individual and group counselling for trafficking in persons victims, as beneficiaries of assistance for reintegration programmes undergone by ADPARE.
Partners:
The Romanian Ecumenical Association of Churches -AIDRom
The National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP)
The Romanian Forum for Refugees and Migrants -ARCA
Filantropia Foundation – Timisoara
Beneficiaries:
Adult victims of trafficking in persons
Activities:
Counselling and Psychotherapy both at individual and at group level for victims of trafficking in persons
Vocational counselling and professional orientation for victimized women
Mediation of the reports between the victims and vocational/professional training providers
Psychological support granted during the implementation of vocational training
Duration: March 2007- February 2008
The project was financed with the support of the Romanian Ecumenical Association of Churches - AIDRom
“Support for the victims of trafficking in persons: towards an integrative assistance and protection model “
Project description:
The project had as scope to cover complex assistance needs of the victims included in the assistance programme implemented by ADPARE, and also developing the organizational capacity by providing resources to increase the number of assisted victims among case referrals.
Beneficiaries:
Human trafficking victims; family members
Partners:
The National Agency against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP)
CARITAS Association , Bucharest,
SECS Foundation
The Foundation for Human Development/ “Pop de Basesti” Medical Centre
Activities
Residential assistance in protective apartment system
Psychological assistance – intervention in crisis, individual counselling
Support for professional reintegration
Family planning education
Medical assistance – facilitation of the access to state medical services
Juridical assistance - access to information on victims’ rights as victimized parties or witnesses in the trafficking in persons offence trial and representation in the court of law.
Social assistance – accommodation in protected housing system, financial support, mediation of the relationship with the origin/nuclear family, counselling on school reinsertion
Duration:October 2007 – March 2008
The project was financed with the support of the Swiss Embassy, mission in Bucharest and “Ratiu” Foundation for Democracy
The National Interest Programme: „Improving the Assistance and Protection Activities for Victims of Trafficking in Persons” NIP 1/2007
Project description:
Having one month duration, the project contributed to improving the quality of assistance provision to victims of human trafficking.
Beneficiaries
Adult victims of trafficking in persons exploited through sexual services, forced labour and constraint to committing petty crime.
Partners
The National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP)
SECS Foundation
The Foundation for Human Development/ “Pop de Basesti” Medical Centre
„TotalSchool” Educational Centre
Activities
Residential assistance in protective housing system – run by ADPARE;
Juridical assistance: education on human rights and victims’ rights; juridical consultancy; representation in the court of law for both penal and civil causes;
Establishing cooperation and mediation of the relationship between victims and relevant stakeholders; Psychological intervention in crisis;
Psychological counselling sessions at individual and group level;
Mediation of the relationship with the family;
Medical assistance;
Social assistance: financial support, re-issue of identity papers, information on social rights;
Study completion;
Professional training/ re-conversion;
Duration: December 2007
The project was financed with the support of the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (NAATIP).
The Characteristics of Assisted Victims for 2007
Number of assisted persons: 60
Type of exploitation
Main destination countries
Main institutions of referral
The NAATIP through its Regional Centres
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
The penal pursuit authorities (the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime GDCOC; the Offices for Combating Organized Crime - OCOC; the Services for Combating Organized Crime -SCOC; the border police units).
PREVENTION, RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN THE FIELD OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
„Support Programme for the Development of Trans-national Referral Mechanisms for Trafficked Victims in the South-East of Europe
Under the “Support Programme for the Development of Trans-national Referral Mechanisms for Trafficked Victims in the South-East of Europe”, implemented by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), ADPARE contributed with one expert member in the national implementation team. The participating countries in the project are mainly acknowledged as origin states for victims of trafficking in persons: Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Romania. The national coordinator in Romania is represented by the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons. The project was implemented between the years 2006-2009.
SENS- “Promoting Good Practices in Human Trafficking Victim Identification and Reintegration
The trafficking in human beings prevention component
In 2007, ADPARE entered in partnership with AIDRom, Partners for a Change and UNICEF Romania for the implementation of the prevention component of the SENS Programme, the concrete activities in which ADPARE participated being: providing contribution for creating good practices guidelines in the field of preventing trafficking in persons and training governmental and non-governmental actors with relevant activity in the field.
Feed-back - “The Perception of Assistance and Protection Models by the Victims of Human Trafficking who benefit from them”
Started in February 2007 and completed in January 2008, the project proposed to improve the services designed to victims of trafficking in persons, by conducting a qualitative research based on the victims’ direct experience with assistance and protection services. Established at trans-national level, having partners from 6 countries, both origin and destination states for victims of trafficking in persons, the project joined experts from several organizations, amongst which ADPARE. The partner organizations in the project were:
ALC/SPRS, France, project coordinator
The Support Centre for Missing Persons’ Families, Lithuania
On the Road Association, Italy
The Municipality ofMadrid, Spain
Caritas Bucharest, Romania
Nadja Foundation, Bulgaria
The concrete activities in which the ADPARE team has involved referred to conducting interviews with trafficked victims in Romania and to participating in all trans-national events proposed in the project, more specifically to all professionals meetings.
The project was financed with the support of the European Commission under Daphne II Programme.
The Trafficking in Persons Prevention Campaign “Beware of PERFECT occasions with PERFECT working places”
During July 2007 – February 2008, the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons together with the Romanian Ecumenical Association of Churches –AIDRom, ADPARE and Caritas Bucharest implemented a prevention campaigns whose objectives were: to inform and sensitize general public on the risks associated to trafficking in human beings; to enhance the self-protection capacity to the consecutive threats of the phenomenon; to reduce the vulnerability of the groups at risk; to reduce the demand for women’s sexual exploitation and for forced labour.
A Safe Environment for Children – a common Effort of School and Family to Prevent Trafficking in Persons in Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia- Herzegovinaand Romania
Started the previous year, the project coordinated by Caritas Bucharest Association, continued its initiatives in 2007 by developing information and prevention activities among youngsters aged between 14-18 years selected from several schools in Romania, namely: the Pedagogic High School in Ploiesti, “ASTRA” High School in Pitesti, “Voievodul Mircea’ High School in Targoviste, Economic High School in Bacau, “Saint Joseph” High School in Bucharest, “Horia Hulubei” High School in Magurele, Ilfov county, “Gheorghe Vranceanu” National College in Bacau, “Armand Calinescu” High School in Pitesti, The Art and Music High School in Targoviste. The project activities are to go on until 2009 with the purpose of reducing the risk for youngsters to become potential victims of trafficking in human beings. The ADPARE team, together with Caritas Bucharest and other partners have implemented information and training activities in the field for students and teachers of the abovementioned schools.
Reducing the Risks Associated to Trafficking in Persons among Young People of the TwoDanubeShores
Having as starting points the working principles of the abovementioned project, Caritas Bucharest developed by the latter initiative, a trans-national prevention component - Romania-Bulgaria. Thus together with Romanian high school students, other project beneficiaries were Bulgarian high school students, as the activities had the same information and training outcomes in the field, but also to provide support for students to create their own prevention campaigns at school level as well as at local, national and trans-national extent. ADPARE involved as partner of Caritas Bucharest in training and informing the students and teachers from both countries.
MTV EXIT Campaign
In 2007, ADPARE perpetually involved in carrying out prevention activities by distributing information/ materials in the field of exploitation and trafficking in persons, such as deliverables from the MTV EXIT Europe anti-trafficking campaign previously started. As a Romanian partner, together with the International Organization for Migration, Mission in Romania, ADPARE acted as a resource organization for the young people in need of information before accepting a job proposal abroad, or for identified trafficked victims requiring protection and assistance, as well as for active professionals in the field.
PROMOTING VICTIMS’ RIGHTS
Through all the activities carried out by ADPARE, to promote trafficked victims’ rights was highlighted as a basis principle in developing programmes, in cooperation with similar institutions and mass-media both at national and international level.
In 2007, ADPARE had one representative as a participant to the Inter-ministerial Working Group against trafficking in persons who contributed by sharing expertise to establishing of the National Specific Standards on Trafficked Victims’ assistance and protection.
Annual report 2007- ADPARE