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Shelter Self-Improvement





Shelter Self-Improvement

Despite the fact that anti-trafficking organizations and victim service agencies have been working steadily to improve the services available to trafficked persons, there are still shelters in the GMS that are in violation of international standards and basic human rights. These facilities are often run by well-meaning government or non-government shelter managers who lack the financial or technical resources to improve the conditions of their facilities, or the quality of services that they offer to trafficked persons. While many government and non-government agencies are involved in the longer term process of developing and implementing procedures for improved comprehensive victim protection under COMMIT PPC 5, UNIAP aims to jump-start this process through an innovative project in partnership with IOM and World Vision that builds the capacity of shelter managers and helps them to help each other improve the conditions of their facilities.

Within the process of victim protection, from victim identification to reintegration, shelter (and other custodial facility) stays are just a fraction of the services that may be appropriate for an individual victim. Still, investing in better shelters and transit centers that meet international standards, and in the capacity of facility managers to provide better services, is an investment that trafficking victims deserve.

The objectives of the Shelter Self-Improvement Project more specifically are:

The UNIAP Shelter Self-Improvement Project will follow six steps in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam (and eventually all GMS countries) as follows:

 

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Objectives of Shelter
Self-Improvement Initiative
  • To measurably improve shelters and other custodial facilities that serve trafficked persons throughout the GMS;
  • To build the capacity of shelter / facility managers to maintain international standards for victim care and support; and
  • To build a sustainable network of government and non-government shelter managers and other victim service providers who know how to maintain international standards in victim care and support, and can help other victim service providers reach these standards in their programs and facilities.