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United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (UNIAP)

Address

UNIAP Myanmar
c/o UNICEF Myanmar
5th Floor, Yangon International Hotel
330 Ahlone Road, Dagon Township, Yangon, Burma

Contact Information

If calling from Burma:

Tel: 01 212086
Fax: 01 212063

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +95 1 212086
Fax: +95 1 212063

Website

http://www.no-trafficking.org

Email

ayhtut.uniapmm@undp.org

Activities

The UN Inter-Agency Project (UNIAP) on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region was established in June 2000 to facilitate a stronger and more coordinated response to human trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam). At a regional level, UNIAP brings together six governments, thirteen UN agencies and eight international NGOs. At a country level, the project includes an extensive network of government, local and international NGOs, UN organizations, donors and links to networks in South Asia and beyond.

The UNIAP Regional Office is based in Bangkok. It manages the country programs with guidance provided by an inter-governmental Project Steering Committee that meets annually. The UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Human Trafficking provides management oversight for UNIAP in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.

Major donors of UNIAP include UNDP, SIDA, NZAID, The Government of Norway, AusAid, The Government of The Netherlands, The UN Foundation and The U.S. State Department.

Objective of UNIAP

The UN Inter-Agency Project aims to strengthen the regional response to human trafficking, through improved knowledge, effective collaboration and better targeted action, with a view to reducing the severity and harm associated with human trafficking in the greater Mekong Sub-region.

Background of UNIAP Project

As the first regional project on human trafficking, UNIAP aimed to cover interventions ranging from community-level prevention and protection activities to law enforcement and repatriation. This broad mandate enabled flexible, responsive and innovative action. With the advent of various other regional initiatives however, UNIAP has handed over some areas of work to those better placed to implement a full-scale response, and concentrated on its role in the broad area of coordination.

Phase One of the Project began in September 2000 and was completed in May 2003.

Phase Two officially began in November 2003 and ended in June 2006. The transition from Phase one to Phase two afforded UNIAP the opportunity to focus more tightly its approach, building on the lessons learnt and activities initiated to date. After successfully fulfilling its mandate of filling in gaps with regard to interventions on trafficking, UNIAP in the second phase is able to step back from line areas such as law enforcement and repatriation to concentrate on its co-ordination function.

Following the Project’s Mid-Term Evaluation in 2002, UNIAP has been able to articulate more clearly what this co-ordination role involves and how this is supported in a cohesive manner by its four new programme areas:

Building the knowledge Base (To build the knowledge base on human trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region);
Strategic Analysis and Priority Setting (To identify, raise and support action on high priority issues related to human trafficking);
Targeted Interventions and Catalytic Research (To support interventions that respond to gaps in the regional response to trafficking); and
Advocacy (To respond as the UN to concerns related to trafficking and to provide advocacy back-up to country offices, ministries and partners).

Phase two has sought to enhance, expand and capitalize on the knowledge, networks and successful pilot activities developed in the first three years of the project.

More detailed information about UNIAP can be found here.