COMMIT Region-wide Reintegration Initiative Web Resource Page
COMMIT partners can check this website through 2011 to track developments in the COMMIT Reintegration Initiative.
Updated: 14 December 2011
In late 2009, the end of the second year of the COMMIT SPA II (2008-2010), the six COMMIT Governments convened and identified improving reintegration assistance as one of their agreed highest priorities for the Mekong region. Following this, in 2010, UNIAP as COMMIT Secretariat convened a regional working group of IOM, NEXUS Institute, Save the Children, UNIAP, UNICEF, and World Vision to provide united support to the governments to (a) map out existing reintegration assistance mechanisms in the region, and (b) get perspectives from actual victims of trafficking regarding their post-trafficking life and needs, whether they received assistance or not.
National Practitioner Forums were held in the six countries through late 2010 to map out and analyze existing reintegration assistance mechanisms in the region. The notes for these forums can be found here:
China’s official National Practitioner Forum minutes are currently being translated and edited now, and will be available soon.
Victim follow-up research is currently being launched throughout the Mekong and will continue through 2011, with a focus on interviewing victims who were formally identified and assisted, as well as victims who were not formally identified or assisted. The sample size for the entire region has expanded to approximately 300 victims to be interviewed total, with an average of 50 victims being interviewed per Mekong country. Government and inter-agency partners in some countries have developed and requested sampling frames larger than 50, while other countries will have less than 50.
To date, over half of the men, women, and child victims of trafficking in the sample have been interviewed, including assisted and non-assisted victims who had experience in a broad array of industries including sex, domestic servitude, begging, factory work (electronics, seafood processing), fishing, and construction. Data collection has been completed in Cambodia, is near completion in Vietnam and Myanmar, is underway in Thailand, and is being planned in China and Laos. Documentation on this ongoing research effort can be found here:
Timeframe and expected outputs:
Data collection is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2012, with preliminary analysis and sharing of key findings to be presented at the February 2012 8th COMMIT Senior Officials Meeting in Hanoi. Further discussions between the researchers and service providers and protection-related agencies will also occur in early 2012, for validation and cross-checking. The final report, including key findings and recommendations to inform the COMMIT Process, is expected by mid-2012.
Other resources on assessing reintegration assistance for trafficked persons:
The study is being carried out by Senior Researcher Rebecca Surtees of the NEXUS Institute, in cooperation with UNIAP. For more information about NEXUS's anti-trafficking work, please visit www.nexusinstitute.net. To share other documents on assessing reintegration assistance or for questions regarding the COMMIT region-wide reintegration initiative, please contact UNIAP CTA Lisa Rende Taylor at lisa.rende.taylor@undp.org.
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