Fight Against Human Trafficking in Turkey, 2019-2020
Executive Summary
The SHIFT project “Enhancing Occupational Staff Capacity of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services Working in the Field of Woman on Fight Against Human Trafficking” aims to enhance the capacity of the occupational staff of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services (MoFLSS) at the central and provincial levels to evaluate and provide assistance to actual and potential victims of trafficking receiving services from the woman services units of the MoFLSS.
The main target group of the project is the staff working for the Violence Prevention and Monitoring Center (VPMC) and shelters for women under DGWS. The VPMS provides 7/24 counselling services and guidance for people who are at risk or victims of violence. Furthermore, VPMC is responsible for referral of victims of violence needing an accommodation to woman shelters/ shelters.
Through building the awareness and capacity of the MoFLSS against trafficking in human beings, the project will contribute to strengthening the role of the Ministry within the Turkish National Referral Mechanism (NRM) on the one hand, and further strengthen the inter-institutional cooperation among the relevant stakeholders in Turkey, on the other.
The project is funded by the United Kingdom and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) is responsible for its management and implementation.
Objectives
The overall goal of the SHIFT project is to enhance the knowledge and capacity of the occupational staff of the MoFLSS working in the field of woman on evaluation, provision of assistance to and referral of victims of trafficking.
Objective 1: To develop a full-fledged training programme on trafficking in human beings tailored to the occupational competencies of the MoFLSS’s occupational staff working in the field of woman (social workers, psychologists, child development specialists, teachers and sociologists).
Objective 2: To significantly raise the awareness of MoFLSS’s occupational staff working in the field of woman at the central and local level on trafficking in human beings, including potential trafficking cases among vulnerable groups of migrants/refugees.
Objective 3: To build the capacities of selected MoFLSS’s occupational staff working in the field of woman on training methodologies and tools in order to prepare them to deliver basic training sessions on trafficking in human beings.
Activities
The specific objectives will be reached by three main inter-connected types of activities:
1.Development of training curriculum for DGWS staff on trafficking in human beings to be used for a sustainable training programme of the MoFLSS;
2.Implementation of a series of basic trainings on trafficking in human beings for DGWS provincial occupational staff working at VPMCs and shelters for woman (social workers, psychologists, child development specialists, teachers and sociologists);
3.Carrying out a training of trainers programme for selected occupational staff of the MoFLSS working in the field of woman consisting of training sessions with step-by-step guidance for the trainer to implement the session, including guidance on the use of certain methodologies, handouts and background material.