Workshop on Improved Case Management, Data Collection, and Collaboration
Case workers from East Africa participate in our Case Management workshop, and the Freedom Fund hosts convening to discuss prevalence methodologies.
Earlier this month, we, together with our colleagues from the Victim Case Management System program at Liberty Shared, hosted a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya for regional Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya that are part of the Better Migration Management Programme (BMM) funded by the European Union and Germany.
The participants included caseworkers that are currently and newly using the Victim Case Management System and the workshop provided an opportunity to discuss how to further enhance their case management practices, ensure data quality and use data insights to inform their programming. As a group, they explored the questions they would like their data to answer and worked together on setting out the key data points necessary to identify regional trends in Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and migration and to be included in a shared framework to support wider data sharing.
During the workshop, we examined data sharing processes from several perspectives, interspersed with case studies of existing regional and global data-sharing initiatives. Individual perspectives of each of the organizations were addressed, with the understanding that most data processes are ultimately facilitated at the organizational level.
We very much enjoyed the opportunity to spend this time together with some of our community members to learn and exchange lessons-learned, and want to thank all participants for their hard work and commitment. A strong civil society is key to strengthen data to fight human trafficking and exploitation, and we are pleased to continue to support conversations around data needs, skills, and resources alongside collaboration on data as a common resource.
Here’s a recap of other noteworthy updates and news:
In last week's webinar, our panelists explained some of the polarised discourses around sex workers and the conflation of sex work with human trafficking that can be observed in many countries and pose challenges for sex worker rights activists and anti-trafficking activists to work together. They also discussed collaborative efforts that are happening to achieve a reduction in the amount of violence that people are experiencing, and recent legislative developments for better protection of sex workers.
In June, the Freedom Fund also hosted a technical convening that brought together modern slavery researchers and funders from around the world to discuss prevalence methodologies. This report provides a summary of the collective insights and recommendations from the diverse group.
NGOs are calling on US authorities to ban imports of palm oil from Malaysia's FGV Holdings and investigate the company, citing concerns of forced labor and human trafficking on its plantations
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