South Asia Network for Advocacy against Trafficking in Persons(SANAT)

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About SANAT

SANAT is a network which believes that collaboration with national and regional partners is essential to handle transnational issues that cut across the boundaries of nations. We need a regional approach to research, planning, priority setting and implementation. For this means seeking at the regional level advantages that we cannot derive solely from a national-level approach, and it also means seeking complementary gains that it could not achieve exclusively through a global approach, which is more generic. CSR and south Asian partners have their own individual national networks which increase the possibility of integrating the regional and national efforts into strategies, and improve the impact of research and interventions at national and regional levels.

The ultimate goal of the network partners is to ensure gender justice. We work by jointly creating a pressure lobby so that the issues can be raised at the regional level (SAARC level) and also at the national level simultaneously. The main aim of the partners is to share the best examples and implement strategies that have worked successfully in individual countries at the regional level.

About this project:

• Promoting the development of regional communications networks, which will facilitate the monitoring, and control of activities relating to trafficking in persons.

• Encourage co-coordinated social movements against the trafficking of women.

• Devise strategies to carry out rehabilitation programmes for young women who have been subjected to trafficking keeping in mind education and employment opportunities to women in their own socio-economic settings

• Lobby with SAARC governments to develop appropriate legislation for implementation of SAARC Convention of trafficking especially for rehabilitation of trafficked victims.

• Put pressure on all countries to implement the SAARC convention to improve the status of women (e.g. CEDAW, and SAARC Convention of Trafficking), and on all countries, which have ratified the conventions to establish laws and enforcement in accordance with the conventions.

• Facilitate, encourage and lobby for bilateral talks with India and other South Asian countries to terminate the practice of trafficking people between countries

Project Objectives:

• Capacity building and strengthening of the South Asian Network in developing an Action Plan and Road Map

• To engage in advocacy & lobbying for the implementation of the SAARC Convention on Trafficking by the member states

Methodology:

The network South Asia Network Against Trafficking in Persons (SANAT) shall implement the project. The Regional Nodal Agency (RNA, which will be Centre For Social Research), will work with network partners identified from target countries is appointed as Country Nodal Agency (CNA) (CSR will be CNA for India).

To ensure the sustainability of the efforts, even beyond the project period, a Committee Against Trafficking (CAT) shall be constituted, which shall comprise of 5-7 active network partners, with CNA also being one of the member of the committee. The CAT shall engage in active lobbying and hold meetings with stakeholders. The CAT shall also monitor the progress made during the project period.

A series of meetings shall be organized under the supervision of the CNA and CAT with the stakeholders along with the network partners. Meanwhile, all the information sharing across the countries will be encouraged through an open forum created on CSR website for this project. The CNAs shall prepare a report nearing the end of the project on the lobbying efforts and about their success stories and challenges.

The project was funded by Academy for Educationl Development (AED)/South Asia Regional Initiative/ Equity Support Program (SARI/Q)