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Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. Winrock staff implements projects in more than 65 countries, including the United States, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. (See www.winrock.org)
Since 2001, Winrock International has successfully implemented activities on prevention of human trafficking in Russia within the frameworks of the “Prevention of Trafficking in Women in the Russia Far East and Siberia” Project (TPP) and “Path to Success!” program in the Russian Far East.
With the support of Winrock International, Path to Success! partner NGOs raise community awareness of the problem of human trafficking, conduct trainings to promote the economic empowerment of young women, and work with teachers to promote positive values in youth. Winrock International has established contacts with the representatives of government administrations, law enforcement structures, and mass media, and has worked directly with teachers of secondary and professional schools in the Far Eastern region.
The goal of the “Path to Success!” program is to unite the efforts of the local community to prevent human trafficking and domestic violence in the Russian Far East (“Problem Statement”).
In 2006-2007, Winrock plans to widen its sphere of activities on the prevention of human trafficking and domestic violence to include new innovative approaches that build on past successes (Archive).
The activities of Path to Success! partner NGOs will be focused in three areas:
- Educational
- Informational
- Work with future specialists
Educational Component
The educational component includes the following types of activities:
- Conducting trainings for girls and young women on job skills and entrepreneurial development, based on training modules designed under the “Trafficking Prevention Project” and current “Path to Success!” program.
- Designing and conducting trainings and seminars on the prevention of human trafficking and/or domestic violence for different target groups (e.g. students of secondary schools, colleges and universities, orphanage alumnae, unemployed women/girls registered at employment centers). Trainings and seminars cover a variety of topics, including: factors behind domestic violence, prevention of human trafficking and domestic violence, human rights, rights of women in Russia, gender education, orphanage alumnae rights, employment legislation, and setting life and career goals.
- Developing training manuals that summarize the successes of NGOs under the “Path to Success!” program and offer innovative training methods on educating community members about human trafficking and domestic violence.
- Designing and incorporating new lessons for teachers on human trafficking and domestic violence, gender education, human rights and other topics related to the goal of the ‘Path to Success!” program.
Informational component
Informational activities include targeted events that raise public awareness of the issues of domestic violence and human trafficking. These activities encourage collaboration between local authorities, law enforcement, mass media and the non-commercial sector. Activities include:
- Developing and implementing mentoring programs. These programs support young leaders who care about their peers’ lives and are eager to improve their communities. Past experience has shown that “peer to peer” trainings are very effective and enhance the information perception of young people.
- Disseminating information. This direction covers a wide sphere of activities, including:
- Conducting informational campaigns in the mass media; providing information to journalists; creating or providing input to TV and radio programs, and design of social advertisements
- Developing and/or disseminating printed materials, including posters, leaflets, memos, booklets, brochures, and fliers
- Creating or providing input for websites for youth;
- Organizing hotlines;
- Making films based on the work of the Path to Success! program;
- Organizing debate clubs; and
- Building a referral system to provide professional assistance to the victims of human trafficking and domestic violence.
- Conducting public events such as roundtables with government and law enforcement representatives, mass media, and local vlast; press-conferences; thematic forums; drawing and essay competitions; parades; concerts; and street campaigns.
Work with future specialists
In November 2006, the “Path to Success!” program launched a new activity to prepare future specialists to work with at-risk women and victims of human trafficking and domestic violence. Five NGOs in Khabarovskii and Primorskii krais and Amurskaya oblast are actively cooperating with the educational institutions that prepare future lawyers, medical workers, psychologists, policemen, and social workers. These NGOs will introduce specialists-to-be to the problems of human trafficking and domestic violence at NGO-led trainings, where students will become informed about these social problems and learn how to work effectively with at-risk women and victims of human trafficking and domestic violence. Over the life of the project, 65 specialized trainings will be conducted for 600 students who are likely to work with at-risk women and victims of human trafficking and domestic violence after graduation.
Archive: Previous Project Expirience
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