Programmes and Operations

Present Programmes

A Counter-Trafficking : Overview of ICMC Counter-trafficking Programming

This page contains details of ICMC's past and present counter-trafficking programming in various countries, as well as work done by ICMC's Advocacy Department and Training Unit.
Lebanon, Indonesia, South Eastern Europe (past programme), Training Unit, Albania (past programme) and Croatia (past programme)

• Lebanon
• Indonesia
  
• South Eastern Europe
  
• Training Unit
  
• Albania
  
• Croatia

Lebanon

Country overview

Contact:
Margarita Tileva

In October 2002, ICMC began a program to provide protection and assistance for victims of trafficking as well as promoting durable solutions for them. Female victims of trafficking will receive shelter, medical care, psychosocial assistance, legal aid and counseling for future options. Options will include assisted return to their countries of origin or support for local integration. The program has been developed in conjunction with the Caritas Lebanon Migrants' Center, which has been providing assistance to female migrant workers in Lebanon since 1994. The Center will integrate into its services counter-trafficking messages that help orient and counsel female migrant workers to help minimize their vulnerability to trafficking.

ICMC works with Caritas with people on the move in this region, which includes 16 countries in three zones: North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Middle East.

Issues of particular concern in this region include:

• the situation of people from sub-Saharan countries stuck in North Africa while attempting to reach Europe
  
• Saharoui refugees in Algeria
  
• Palestinian refugees
  
• Afghani refugees in Iran
  
• migrant workers throughout the region.

The Forced Migration Specialist will be responsible for:

• capacity-building for Caritas-MONA member organizations on issues of concern and need regarding refugees, displaced persons and forced migrants
  
• supporting advocacy efforts at the national, regional and international level on behalf of uprooted populations with whom the Caritas-MONA member organizations work
  
• assisting and facilitating workshops, conferences and general reflection that address the co-ordination of work with uprooted populations in the region
  
• developing joint strategies and program opportunities between Caritas-MONA member organizations and ICMC that respond to the needs of refugees, displaced persons and forced migrants.