Completed projects
- Prevention and Improved Assistance to Victims of Trafficking in the Kaliningrad Oblast (PIAVKO)
The main purpose of the project was to build the capacity of NGOs and social workers dealing with trafficking in human beings in the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation.
The key objectives were:
· To build the NGO capacity in dealing with trafficking in the Kaliningrad Oblast in order to provide a better service to people in need of information related to safe migration and trafficking;
· To increase the capacity of journalists so that they can provide more accurate information related to trafficking in human beings issues;
· To raise public awareness about legal and safe possibilities to travel abroad and risks related to human trafficking and smuggling;
· To pilot empowerment training sessions with three groups of vulnerable girls;
· To provide direct assistance to up to ten victims of trafficking.
Project Duration - March 1, 2008 – March 1, 2010 (2 years)
Project was funded by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Make the right choice: youth empowerment campaign against human trafficking
Project Objective - to inform and empower youth in the Kaliningrad region in minimising the risk of involvement in human trafficking.
This project presents the human trafficking problem to youth in a wider human rights context. The project is dedicated to warning the youth how to avoid the threats, as well as, informing them how to choose a safe way to migrate, when either searching for employment or study possibilities abroad or in other regions of the Russian Federation. In order to achieve best results parents, teachers, NGOs, local and central education institutions were incorporated into the project.
Project Duration – 30 months ( June 6, 2006 – December 31, 2008 ).
The following tasks were implemented:
- We've enlarged the network of project partners and created the implementation strategy;
- We've prepared training material and methodology;
- We built NGOs capacity in counter-trafficking;
- We ran an awareness raising educational campaign regarding the threats of human trafficking;
- We organised summer camps for youth;
- We trained pupils how to write, manage and implement projects and we did practical workshops;
- We organised various competitions for pupils.
Project partners: NGOs, central and regional governmental institutions of the Russian Federation (particularly from the Kaliningrad region ), schools and youth organisations.
Project was funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida).