2nd Annual Anti-Trafficking CSOs Coordination Meeting in Kenya
The 2nd Annual Anti-Trafficking Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Coordination Meeting took place on 28 January 2020 at the Hilton Hotel, Nairobi. 41 participants attended the meeting, including 29 CSOs and 5 representatives of the government of Kenya (GoK). The meeting was co-hosted by Stop the Traffik Kenya (STTK) and the Better Migration Management Programme (BMM) implemented by GIZ.
The overall aim of the workshop was (1) to empower Kenyan anti-trafficking CSOs to coordinate their upcoming activities and (2) to support the communication and planning between anti-trafficking CSOs and government actors in order to strengthen the ‘4th P’ in anti-trafficking, partnership, which is an important pillar to ensure prevention, protection and prosecution is successful.
Stop the Traffik Kenya shared the names of 2020’s Focal Points who were nominated to take lead in matters dealing with Prevention, Protection, and Prosecution in Kenya. They are:
Prevention: Paul Adhoch, Trace Kenya and Nimo Mohamed, Cadle of Hope Foundation
Protection: Stacey Alugo, HAART and Florence Keya, Maisha Homes
Prosecution: Mutuku Nguli, CHTEA and Beatrice Njeri, CREAW
Liberty Shared was asked to present the risky migration and human trafficking routes data collection exercise that was conducted in collaboration with STTK. During the presentation, Nimo Ali, the Director for Candle of Hope highlighted how the data has helped to inform some of their organization’s interventions. The data collection exercise helped Candle of Hope to gather human trafficking statistics from an assortment of sources by collecting and analyzing various human trafficking data. It improved their understanding of the causes, routes, trends, and risks involved in human trafficking thereby informing them in project development and intervention. Through the collected data, they could identify hotspots, which in return helped to plan future targets and intervention. The exercise also helped with the identification of the particular CSOs and the government officials that are responsible for dealing with issues of human trafficking.
Other community updates
In 2020, Candle of Hope Foundation will be focusing on: Advocacy, Training, Collaboration, Victim
Information Systems, Victim Protection, and explore further Best Practices in Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Persons. The 2020 work plan can be found here.
HAART Kenya’s Youth project - Young@HAART got to participate in a Fight Inequality March as well as a festival where they also got to perform a dance on human trafficking. Other organizations present in the event were Centre for Rights Education and Awareness, Msingi, Social Justice Centre, Greenpeace Africa, OXFAM, Daughters of Mumbi, Wangu Kanja Foundation, INUKA, - Health NGOs Network- HENNET, Dandora Hip Hop and Watoto Kwa Wote. Read more...