Combatting trafficking in Brazil

The project’s development objective is to contribute to better address and combat trafficking in persons in Brazil. The project will work to fostering while the discussion on legislation issues, and to enhance knowledge-base, and contribute achieve a better law enforcement response. Besides, the Project intends to develop prevention methodologies, as well as to raise social awareness regarding trafficking in persons with gender and race approach. Planned outputs will be reached through an integrated strategy among initiatives developed under the National Plan against Trafficking in Persons and in total coordination with and in parallel to other ongoing projects on this issue in Brazil. The National Plan shall last from 2008 through 2009. It is planned to be evaluated at the end with the objective to revise it and update it for a new stage. This project shall give inputs for the Brazilian Government to effectively accomplish the Plan’s objectives and targets. The present project intends to amplify the results achieved so far by another ILO Project called Project against Trafficking in Persons, which lasts from 2006 to July, 2008. The former project has actively collaborated with Brazil’s Ministry of Justice in the elaboration of the National Policy and the National Plan, which has been approved by the President of the Republic. Therefore, the present project shall benefit from all partnerships previously consolidated, besides benefiting from all professionals who have been trained and who are now willing to work more effectively on combating trafficking in persons on Brazil. In this sense, previous projects implemented by ILO have contributed with inputs for designing complementary results capable of strengthening efforts in this new project. While the Project against Trafficking in Persons focused mainly on strategies to include the theme in the federal and local agendas, the new project intends to support the execution of new working methodologies and the implementation of the National Plan, through the design 01. In this regard, this project aims at the institutional strengthening of law enforcement agents, training and capacity building, prevention through better awareness raising strategies, as well as making the theme of trafficking in persons more visible to society as a whole. ILO’s strong partnerships and relations with governmental, non-governmental, worker’s and employer’s organizations, besides other international agencies, are essential to guarantee such results.

Project symbol

BRA/10/01/USA

Admin unit

CO-Brasilia

Start date

11/02/2010

End date

31/12/2011

Total allocation

446509

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

446509

Development Partners

USA, Department of State

Country/Countries

Brazil

Outcomes

Forced Labour