South Eastern Europe TRM guidelines: a practical tool for practitioners to assist victims of trafficking

Project : Regional Office 2 Jan 2010 | nrm trm thb

Extract: The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) has just launched the Guidelines for the Development of a Transnational Referral Mechanism for Trafficked Persons: South-Eastern Europe (TRM Guidelines).

The TRM programme brought multidisciplinary actors together from both the practical and policy level during a 40-month period. Their cooperation showed that only through the joint and coordinated commitment of government officials, law enforcement agencies, NGOs and international organisations effective cooperation for safe transnational referral of trafficked persons can be sustainable.

The TRM Guidelines aim to be a practical tool for practitioners, in the form of five Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), a set of recommendations and practical measures for transnational referral of trafficked persons that shall guide practitioners to continue to work in coordination with their international counterparts through the necessary steps for the implementation of transnational referral mechanisms.

These guidelines have been elaborated in the framework of the Programme to Support the Development of Transnational Referral Mechanisms (TRM) for Trafficked Persons in South-Eastern Europe (SEE) implemented by ICMPD and financially supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).