HumanTrafficking.org | Vietnam International Organization: Oxfam-Quebec Vietnam

A web resource for combating human trafficking

Vietnam

Oxfam-Quebec Vietnam

Address

Anti-Human Trafficking Program
Oxfam Quebec Vietnam
16 Mai Hac De, Bui Thi Xuan Ward
Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi
Vietnam

Contact Information

If calling from Vietnam:

Tel: 04 945 4375 (Ext. 216)
Fax: 04 945 4294

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +84 4 945 4375 (Ext. 216)
Fax: +84 4 945 4294

Website

http://www.oxfam.qc.ca

Email

baquynh@oxfamquebec.org.vn

Activities

Oxfam-Quebec, a member of Oxfam-International, has been working in South East Asia since the early 1990s. It has focused all its development initiatives in Vietnam and Cambodia. Oxfam-Quebec is a registered Canadian INGO with its head office located in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Their mission is to support underprivileged populations in developing countries as they struggle for survival, progress, social justice and human rights, and to mobilize the people of Quebec and help them express their solidarity for greater justice. Their strategic directions follow a Rights-Based Approach.

In Vietnam and Cambodia, their programs include:

Anti Human Trafficking initiatives;
Capacity-building of our local partner organizations and networking with special emphasis on civil society and NGO empowerment;
Local human resource development;
Micro and small business development; and
Sustainable development.

Gender mainstreaming is a cross-cutting theme for all their programming as well as environmental protection. In both country programs, Oxfam-Quebec works closely with the goals and objectives of the poverty reduction plans of the government.

Events:
Oxfam International: Validation/ Learning Workshop

2nd Oxfam-Quebec's Annual Anti-human Trafficking Inter-provincial Meeting and Project Evaluation Sharing Workshop

Publications
Anti-Human Trafficking Program in Vietnam

Two-Day Gender and Development Training

Anti – Human Trafficking Programme in Vietnam

Oxfam-Quebec's Anti-Trafficking Program is being implemented in the provinces of Quang Ninh, Ha Tinh, Thai Binh, Ha Giang and Hanoi. In 2005, they proposed to add Phu Tho province into their program.

The main objective of their anti-trafficking program is to address the problem of trafficking in women and children in Vietnam. The quality of the relationship amongst all stakeholders and the communication are very important in this program. The program is structured to build a trustful and respectful relationship with women, children, community members and partners. The program also pays particular attention to sustainability. The program aims at reinforcing the capacity building of the partners and to providing them supports to reach the following goals.

Awareness-raising: Knowledge and awareness of risks associated with trafficking and exploitation will be generated by and among vulnerable groups, their families and the communities.

Capacity building: The capabilities of women and children, their communities and other partners will be strengthened, enabling the development of more effective strategies to protect poor, marginalized and other vulnerable women and children from trafficking. In line with the Gender approach, women, girls and men will be sensitized to, and informed on women's and children's rights.

Women and Child participation: Women and children will participate in identifying and developing relevant life and vocational skills and strategies, leading to alternative livelihoods and minimizing risks associated with trafficking. The Gender approach will contribute to sensitizing families to the risks involved with trafficking; the causes, the consequences and the alternatives.

Access to basic services: Basic services (health care, education and social services, protection, welfare, legal and counseling) will be made accessible to vulnerable women and children through provision of innovative alternatives and/or strengthening existing services.

Repatriation and reintegration: The quantity and quality of safe and voluntary repatriation & reintegration of trafficked victims will be increased and more regularized channels of repatriation & reintegration established.

Advocacy: Policies and practices of government, other concerned groups and vulnerable communities will be influenced in a way that will reduce the risks and problems related to trafficking of women and children.

Income Diversification & Training: Women that have been trafficked or are vulnerable to trafficking are provided a skills base to gain income for themselves and their families through a variety of adult education training programs as well as being provided assistance to set-up their own micro-businesses

There are two main projects within their Anti Human trafficking program:

1st Project
Community Based Initiatives against Child Trafficking in Vietnam (January 2002 - March 2005).
This project was jointly funded by CIDA, Save Children UK and NOVIB. It involved Bac Giang, Lang Son and Quang Ninh in terms of surveying and training at the initial stage, then covered Quang Ninh from May 2004 to March 2005 in terms of intervention. Four main project components are:

Support center set up and management: Set up and operate a support center for vulnerable children & women

Prevention: Strengthen capacity and empower women and children by giving them socio-economic rights and access to society services

Strengthen partners' capacities: Strengthen capacities for support center staffs, Steering Committee members, and volunteers participating the project

Strengthen capacities for vulnerable groups: Develop women and children's capacities to promote traditional activities in response to market needs

2nd Project
Improving Socio-economic Rights of Vulnerable Women and Children for Reducing Human Trafficking in Vietnam (April 2003 to May 2006).
This is an Oxfam Family program funded by NOVIB, Oxfam GB and Oxfam HK. Oxfam Quebec is implementing agency. The project aims at empowering men, women and children who are prone to being trafficked or who have survived trafficking experiences. Through a gender-responsive rights based approach, the project contributes to men, women and children's awareness on their rights and the ability to exercise them. The beneficiaries of the project are people in communities vulnerable to out-migration and in close proximity to established trafficking routes. The provinces in which activities are being implemented include Quang Ninh, Thai Binh, Ha Tinh, Ha Giang and Hanoi City.

The types of interventions concentrate on prevention, strengthening economic capacity of vulnerable groups and strengthening regional and national networks. The economic dimension is given a priority, as poverty is one of the major causes of trafficking. The realization of people's socio-economic rights through different activities is at the center of all interventions. Four main components of this project are:

Setting-up or reinforcement of support centers: To put in place the support centers for vulnerable groups to provide multidimensional services to vulnerable women and children at risk of being trafficked and/or becoming potential migrants.

Prevention: To heighten vulnerable women and children's awareness and understanding regarding their socio-economic rights and the risks associated with trafficking and migration.

Strengthening economic capacity of vulnerable groups: To develop, in partnership with local stakeholders, economic opportunities and networks to support alternative livelihoods for vulnerable women and children.

Strengthening regional and national networks: To promote national and regional networking, consultation, mobilization and experience sharing between diverse organizations, agencies and ministries working to combat the phenomenon of trafficking.

In addition to these two projects, they are at the initial stage of expanding their anti trafficking program to Phu Tho province which includes identifying vulnerable groups of children and women in some districts and communes with support from Phu Tho Committee for Population Family & Children; assessing socio-economic situation and the unmet needs of target groups to plan for further interventions in next period; implementing some small-scale activities which include awareness raising and short-term social work training amongst target groups in terms of anti human trafficking.