Project Coordinator

Identification

1. Name of the project/practice

2. Name of submitting person/organisation/practitioner

3. Role of the submitting person/organisation/practitioner in the good practice

4. Type of organisations implementing the practice

Academia/University

National authority

Regional authority

Local authority

Non-governmental organisation

International organisation

Private organisation

Private person

Other type of organisation

4.1. Please specify type of organisation if different than the options above

5. Description of the lead organisation

6. Name and description of partner organisations

Scope and activities

7. Type of activity

Capacity-building and training of duty-bearers (national, regional, local authorities, others involved in delivery of services) to respect rights

Services delivered directly to children (including on access to their rights) (e.g. child-sensitive information, support services, clinics (mobile or other), reception, transnational cooperation, etc.

Promoting rights-based responses and actions (e.g. advocacy, working with communities, implementing standards)

Community engagement (e.g. local volunteers or outreach, inclusion, neighborhood initiatives)

Other type of activity

7.1. Please describe other type of activity (if the type of activity is not listed above)

8. Sector

Immediate protection needs on arrival / humanitarian relief (e.g. individual needs assessment)

Identification and registration (e.g. child-friendly biometric enrollment, measures to prevent and to respond to unaccompanied children going missing, age assessment procedures)

Reception: accommodation (e.g. reception related measures to promote and respond to children going missing, foster care, semi-independent living, housing for families, different forms of alternative care for unaccompanied children)

Reception: access to services (educational support, access to health care, assistance to newborns or toddlers, psychosocial support, leisure, integration-related measures)

Access to status determination procedures/procedural safeguards (guardianship services, multidisciplinary age assessment, family reunification/unity, family-tracing, prioritisation of children’s status determination procedures (urgency principle), legal assistance, child-sensitive information)

Prevention of deprivation of liberty (General Comment No 23 UNCRC) / non-custodial solutions

Durable solutions (best interests determination, integration, return, resettlement or reunification with family in a third country)

Other sector

8.1. Please describe other sector (if the sector is not listed above)

9. Target group of children in migration

All children

Unaccompanied or separated children

Children in families

Children with disabilities

LGBTQI children

Children seeking international protection

Teenagers close to adulthood

Child victims of trafficking

Child victims of violence

Child victims of sexual violence

Other target group of children in migration

9.1. Other target group of children in migration (if the target group is not listed above)

10. Specific target of the practice

Boys

Girls

All children

11. Target group based on age

0-18 years

0-3 years

4-6 years

7-12 years

13-18 years

Other age group

11.1. Please specify the age group

12. Keywords to describe the good practice

13. Time frame

13.1. Start date of activity

Date

13.2. End date of activity

Date

14. Geographical scope

14.1. Other geographical scope

15. Region, municipality or locality concerned

16. General description of activities

- Launch of a practical research programme that focuses on guardianship systems for child victims of trafficking involved in legal procedures  in five Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands and UK)  
- Development of multidisciplinary training modules that promote minimum standards for guardians and lawyers regarding child  victims of trafficking, including specific modules relating to their roles and responsibilities
- Training of guardians (or other representatives according to the country) and lawyers on child victims of trafficking involved in legal procedures at national level in five Member States
- Development of child-friendly information tools for child victims of trafficking in order to inform children of their rights as children, and as child victims of trafficking
- Advocacy to ensure effective legal guardianship for child victims of trafficking in EU Member States and to integrate information and training on trafficking in the curriculum of new guardians and lawyers
- Workshop on non-prosecution principle for child victim of trafficking for criminal purposes

17. Objectives of the activities

18. Results

Child victims of trafficking will benefit from greater awareness of their own rights.

General (video) and specific information related to the five national contexts (leaflet) are now available in 13 languages (French, English, German, Dutch, Farsi, Pashto, Arabic, Romanian, Bulgarian, Albanian, English Pidgin, Chinese and Vietnamese). The project got the participation of children at risk and victims of trafficking in developing and delivering information and messages that are relevant for children. These tools provide a channel for child victims of trafficking to access peer information in their language. 
The child-friendly information tools (video and leaflets) were largely disseminated to professionals in contact with children (lawyers, guardians and child-protection professionals) in all the 5 countries. The project has organized a large dissemination of these tools for example to shelters for unaccompanied minors, guardians, lawyers and judges, professionals working on the evaluation of unaccompanied minors… For now, it is estimated that at least 7 883 children have accessed the leaflets and/or the video. It is difficult to monitor the exact number of children reached and numbers are definitively much higher. Feedbacks received from professionals who have received the tools show that they do make use of them. The digital version is as well appreciated.

19. Challenges

Difficulties in implementing the child-friendly tools activity
-	Difficulties for translating the script of the video in a child-friendly manner. The call for tenders was requesting a service provider to do both (translation and studio) but ECPAT France did not receive any positive answer as professionals explained that the work of translation is completely different from the interpreters work.
In order to overcome this difficulty, ECPAT France asked the volunteers / professionals who were recruited to go to the studio with the children to check in advance the translation and adapt it to child languages. During the session, children/youth would also discuss with the volunteer/professionals the best words to be used and understood by them.

-	Difficulties in finding migrant children for the voices of the video: To avoid this problem, ECPAT France also looked for children that live with their parents in France but speak the language selected (example: Chinese, Vietnamese…) or ask for volunteers (adults) with a young voice to record their voices (German, Dutch).

20. Lessons learned

Based on the experience of the ReACT project, ECPAT partners agreed that for future projects it would be better to focus on less activities but to have more time to implement them. As noticed in the evaluation report, the project took much more time than planned in the proposal and budget. It’s only thanks to “the high level of involvement of ECPAT partners” that the project could reach this high number of outputs.

The partners experienced many positive moments during the project. Most of them are aforementioned but others can be quoted here: 
- Experience of a collaborative work, notably when it comes to advocacy. The organizations working together are stronger than 1 organization isolated.  
- Children who welcome very favorably the tools that were created (as well as professionals). 
- Will from other European countries and/or other organizations to adapt the tools and to translate them in more languages. 
- Very positive feedback at national level regarding the training sessions delivered.

Additional Information

21. Funding

Funded by national authorities

Funded by the organisation in charge of the implementation

Funded by regional authorities

Funded by local authorities

Funded by private donor or charity

Other funding

21.1. Please specify other funding:

22. Funded by EU Programme

23. Approximate costs per year

24. Currency

25. Costs per objective or per work package

26. Other relevant information on budget and costs

27. Formal evaluation

28. Child safeguarding policy

29. Child safeguarding policy link

30. Child safeguarding policy document

31. Link to good practice / organisations' website

32. Relevant documents for good practice/organisation

33. Is there any extra information you want to provide not already covered in the replies to the questions above?

Contact Information

34. You can add up to five contacts

34.1.1. Name

34.1.2. Phone

34.1.3. Email

34.2.1. Name

34.2.2. Phone

34.2.3. Email

34.3.1. Name

34.3.2. Phone

34.3.3. Email

34.4.1. Name

34.4.2. Phone

34.4.3. Email

34.5.1. Name

34.5.2. Phone

34.5.3. Email

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