Re/integration of trafficked persons: developing monitoring and evaluation mechanisms Issue paper #3 Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programme

This paper explores issues related to the M&E of anti-trafficking re/integration programmes and, as such, aims to contribute to the body of knowledge on this subject. It is the third in a series of issue-based papers focusing on the re/integration of trafficked persons, developed in the context of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programmes (TVRP) in South-eastern Europe (SEE).

Recommendations include:
• Make M&E an essential component of all re/integration work;
• Monitor not only the re/integration plans of individual victims but also re/
integration services themselves;
• Regularly conduct evaluations of re/integration programmes – before,
during and after programme implementation;
• Use both qualitative and quantitative information in monitoring and
evaluating re/integration work;
• Involve beneficiaries in monitoring and evaluating re/integration services
and programmes;
• Follow ethical principles in M&E work;
• Make M&E a “safe” and comfortable process for staff and beneficiaries;
• Balance the costs and benefits in undertaking M&E work;
• Train staff in M&E, including recognising its value in programme work;
• Apply the lessons from M&E in on-going re/integration efforts in order to
bring about positive change; and
• Fund and undertake both M&E and research.