Swaraksha

TIMELINE: 2017-2021

Caritas India is committed to curb any form of human slavery to restore human dignity. Caritas India with the support of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) initiated the Swaraksha Anti-Human Trafficking Program at the Indo-Nepal border. This program aimed to prevent, protect, and partner with stakeholders to address the issue of human trafficking. It is being implemented in four locations within the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. These include Lucknow, Baharaich, Maharajganj and Gorakhpur. Caritas India (CI) Swaraksha AHT Programme, partnered with four implementing agencies that were working at the grassroots level to address the issue of human trafficking.

Launched in June 2017, the Swaraksha AHT Programme from its inception was rigrously working with its key stakeholders and Programme Implementing Partners. Mrs. Sutapa Sanyal Former DGP, Uttar Pradesh Mahila Samman Prakoshtha (currently known as women and child safety organization, WCSO) who launched the programme with around 40 Police Personnel from Anti Human Trafficking units of 16 districts of the state. These officials condoned Caritas India’s Initiative to address cross border Human Trafficking issue.

Goal: For women, youth and children to live a dignified life free of fear of human trafficking. Empowering them to be able to access their rights and entitlements. Outcomes Prevention: In villages and towns, in the border areas of Nepal and India; reduce the risk of human trafficking through awareness-raising, education, employment, and training. Partnership: A regional network from India and Nepal to build up cross border cooperation to counter human trafficking.

Protection: Protection of Trafficked Person (TP) identification, rescue, rehabilitation, and restoration in and across India and Nepal.

Implementing partners: (Purvanchal Gramin Seva Samiti, PGSS Gorakhpur, Diocesan of social work society, DSWS Lucknow, Developmental Association for Human Advancement, DEHAT Baharaich and Shakti Samuha cross border Partner, Nepal)

Geographical Reach: (State -Uttar Pradesh, District – Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Baharaich and Lucknow, Block- Nautanwa and Nichlol and Nawabganj and Mihinpurwa.

Villages- PGSS Gorakhpur, Babu Paisiya, Chapwa, Barwakalan, Chandithan, Mudila, Jara, Renghaiya, Shitlapur Khesra, Jhulnipur, Bahuar and Thoothibari. DSWS LKO, Salarpur Murthiya, Ghumna baru, Dhramapur, Balaigaon, DEHAT Baharaich ,Amba, Bardiya, Fakirpuri, Rampurwa, Lohra, Bishnapur, Shivpur, Bakshigaon, Ranjit Bojha, Mihinpurwa, Gokulpur, Sankalpa, Laxmanpur, Mohnapur, Laharpurwa

Demographic Reach:

Sl. No	Content	Total
1	Total number of States	01
2	Total Number of villages	32
3	Total Number of GP’S	30
4	Total Number of Blocks	05
5	Total Number of Districts	03
6	Total covered Population	77168
7	Total Households	10545
7	Male & Female (population)	36850(M), 40294(F)

Highlights

Prevention

Training of Law enforcement agencies -1092
Mass Awareness creation -45207
Training of stakeholders -1826

Protection

Human Trafficking suspected interception at Indo-Nepal border booth-822
Human Trafficking suspected victims rescued -836
FIR registered in HT cases -221
Repatriation done-449
Rehabilitation -555
Re-integration -09

Partnership

Indo-Nepal Network constituted -1
Networking with INGOs & NGOs

Prosecution

Support in Prosecution -2
Income generation Program Support-674
Beneficiaries linked to Govt. Schemes -24308
Child labour stopped by child parliament -220
Child marriage stopped by Child parliament -06

TIMELINE: 2017-2018

Caritas India with the support from Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) initiated ‘Swaraksha’, an Indo-Nepal Cross Border Anti-Human Trafficking program to combat human trafficking. The program focuses its activities based on prevention, protection, prosecution and partnership at 25 bordering villages in Maharajganj, Behariach, Gorakhpur Districts and 5 slums of Lucknow. Swaraksha AHT Program is closely working with schools, communities, border police, railway police, transport departments, CWC, ChildLine, shelter home, government departments and NGOs to create awareness and sensitise all citizens to raise their voice against human trafficking.

The programme is structured around the ‘4Ps’:

Prevention: The programme will focus on key drivers of trafficking – the lack of information about trafficking and how to prevent it, and the lack of livelihood opportunities that many women, men and children face and which make them vulnerable to trafficking. The programme will support awareness raising in villages, schools, and youth groups, support education and livelihoods amongst vulnerable adults, and raise awareness amongst local government bodies. The programme will also encourage safe recruitment processes so that those needing to migrate for work can do so safely.

Protection: The programme will raise awareness amongst transport department and rickshaw drivers about trafficking and how to prevent it. The Police and other law enforcement bodies will be supported, trained and encouraged to act to follow the standard protocol to prevent trafficking and protect victims of trafficking. Together with partner organisations they will identify and intercept people being trafficked and refer them to children and adult support services.

Prosecution: this will not be part of Phase II, but the Programme will develop plans and capacities for addressing this in Phase III.

Partnership: The Programme will work with a number of organisations and networks to develop a functioning referral system for victims of trafficking, and to campaign together against human trafficking. This new network will link to the All India Network to End Human Trafficking (AINEHT) at the national level, allowing for two-way communication and working that will benefit advocacy and referral work at the national and state levels.

IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS:

PurvanchalGraminSeva Samiti (PGSS), Gorakhpur.
Diocesan Social Work Society, Lucknow (DSWS).
Developmental Association for Human Advancement (DEHAT) Bahraich.

TARGET GROUPS:
Vulnerable women and girls, out of school youths, school children, police and border forces, transport workers and unions, women and children government departments and NGOs service providers.

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Impact

Regular Core Group meeting organised at Indo-Nepal border of stakeholders to follow up on Human Trafficking cases and actions to be taken.
Joint Patrolling is started at unguarded borders by SSB and Police.
Anti-Human Trafficking units are actively handling the Human Trafficking cases at the border.
Missing Child register maintained in the local Police station.
Migration register maintained in the communities to ensure safe migration.
Dialogue with Duty bearers started for formalizing the cross-border MOU.
Child Parliaments are actively stopping child marriages in the communities
Regular interception of suspected travellers at Indo-Nepal border.

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