ATP Tunisia: Assisting Tunisian Stakeholders to Combat Trafficking in Persons in the context of Mixed Migration

#Trafficking in human beings

Countries

Tunisia

Status

Completed

Duty Stations

Tunis, Tunisia

Duration

August 2021 to January 2023

Donors

US Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (JTIP)

Partners

National Commission against Trafficking in Persons (NCTIP)

Implementing Agency

ICMPD

Summary

The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) is an international organisation tasked with promoting innovative, comprehensive and sustainable migration policies. ICMPD specializes in anti-trafficking in Persons(TIP) capacity building, technical assistance, studies and assessments with a track record of over 70 projects worldwide. The expertise includes support for national anti-TIP strategies and NAPs, issuing materials and training law enforcement, labor inspectors, judges, prosecutors, and CSOs, developing guidelines and procedures for NRMs and TRMs, and supporting the design of data collection systems.
In December 2020, ICMPD and the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) teamed up in order to assist Tunisian authorities and multi-disciplinary anti-trafficking stakeholders to strengthen law No. 61 enforcement to prosecute TIP cases nationally and cross-nationally so that effective victim referral and assistance are provided.

Objective

The project ‘Assisting Tunisian Stakeholders to Combat Trafficking in Persons in the Context of Mixed Migration’ is funded by the US Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (JTIP). This initiative revolves around two key objectives, which read as follows:

Objective 1: Justice sector actors have improved capacities and resources to investigate and prosecute cases nationally and transnationally

Objective 2: TIP victims have improved access to legal counseling services

Project Team

Donya Smida

Project Manager

Bassem Souissi

Project Officer

Tarek Oueslati

Project Assistant