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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 GUATEMALA 000779 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR G/TIP, WHA/PPC, DRL/IL AND WHA/CEN 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FOR ILAB 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR OPDAT 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB GT
SUBJECT: GUATEMALA TIP PROJECT PROPOSALS 
 
REF: A. STATE 28738 
 
     ¶B. GUATEMALA 508 
 
¶1. Summary:  The new Government of Guatemala is giving TIP 
priority attention.  A major step forward has been the 
creation of an anti-TIP unit in the Public Ministry's Office 
of the Special Prosecutor for Women, which is taking the lead 
on TIP investigations and has launched a series of operations 
to rescue victims and arrest traffickers.  We believe that 
providing material support for this new unit has the 
strongest potential benefit for USG TIP interests.  The GOG 
has also requested USG support for victim assistance programs 
for a planned shelter for TIP victims, which we include as a 
possible future project.  We also note that OPDAT anti-TIP 
training is already planned for August 2004.  End Summary. 
 
¶2. A. Title:  Strengthening Law Enforcement Project 
We request G/TIP support of $86,000 in 2004 to purchase 
equipment (vehicles and computer equipment) and supplies for 
the new GOG anti-TIP unit. 
 
¶B.  Background:  Of greatest immediate priority under the 
Embassy's anti-TIP strategy is the support we can provide to 
GOG law enforcement efforts to combat TIP.  The GOG has 
demonstrated the political will to combat TIP by forming the 
new anti-TIP unit within the Prosecutor for Women's Office. 
The unit is staffed by the Prosecutor for Women, an auxiliary 
prosecutor, and two agents.  The unit has already launched a 
series of operations in coordination with the national 
civilian police and the Immigration Directorate to rescue 
victims (six minors engaged in prostitution have been rescued 
thus far) and arrest traffickers (five are in custody). 
Members of the unit received DHS TIP training during the week 
of March 22 (with approximately 400 government law 
enforcement and judicial officials).  The new unit is led by 
an energetic and committed individual, but lacks resources to 
perform effectively.  To achieve results, transportation and 
information system upgrades will give the unit greater 
mobility (it has national responsibility, but is forced to 
depend on the Public Ministry's inadequate motor pool 
resources to travel outside the capital). 
 
¶C.  Project Description: 
 
--1)  Goal: Provide support which gives the anti-TIP unit the 
means to effectively combat TIP by rescuing victims and 
arresting traffickers. 
 
--2)  Objectives:  Double the rate of rescues/arrests of TIP 
victims and traffickers. 
 
--3)  Activities:  Purchase two 4WD vehicle at $40,000 each. 
Purchase three computers at $2000 each. 
 
--4)  Timeline:  One year. 
 
--5) Sustainability:  The Public Ministry will maintain the 
equipment after purchase.  Embassy will monitor the use of 
the equipment and report on the productivity of the unit's 
anti-TIP efforts. 
 
--6)  Performance Indicators:  Number of arrests/rescues of 
TIP victims before and after USG material support. 
 
--7)  Evaluation Plan: Embassy will collect data on arrests 
and rescues at the time equipment is provided, and monthly 
until the end of March 2005, when they will be reported to 
G/TIP. 
 
--8) Cost estimates: 
 
2x4WD vehicles (at $40,000 each):  $80,000 
3xcomputers (at $2,000 each):      $ 6,000 
 
Total:                             $86,000 
 
¶3. A. Title:  Victim's Assistance Project 
 
We request G/TIP consideration of future support to a new 
Government shelter for TIP victims, to be created by the 
Government Secretariat for Social Welfare and run by an NGO. 
Program and equipment support of $71,250 for the first year 
of operation would commence once the shelter is established 
(planned for later this year).  The GOG shelter would 
complement the network of NGO-based shelters proposed by 
USAID. 
 
¶B.  Background:  The GOG plans to create a new shelter for 
adolescent TIP victims, to implement its commitments under 
the National Action Plan Against Commercial Sexual 
Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, approved by the 
Cabinet in 2001.  The Government Secretariat for Social 
Welfare is charged with providing integrated protection and 
services to victims under the Plan. 
 
¶C.  Project Description: 
 
--1)  Goal: Provide support to a new government shelter for 
TIP victims.  The shelter is located in Coatepeque, an urban 
center near the Mexican border and on the main coastal 
highway to the Guatemalan-Mexican border. 
 
--2)  Objectives:  Provide integrated assistance and 
rehabilitation to up to 60 child and adolescent TIP victims 
of sexual exploitation between ages 11-17. 
 
--3)  Activities:  A multi-disciplinary team would provide 
the following services to victims:  mental health (emergency, 
individual and group therapy, detox) 
          health services (treatment, exams, prevention) 
          education and vocational training 
          legal counsel (in coordination with prosecutors to 
charge TIP traffickers) 
          social support (case planning, domestic visits, 
re-insertion in family and community, follow-up once victim 
leaves shelter) 
          prevention (participation in network of shelters) 
 
--4)  Timeline:  one year, renewable if funding permits 
 
--5) Sustainability:  The Presidential Secretariat for Social 
Welfare will assume any ongoing program costs. 
 
--6)  Performance Indicators:  Number of shelter staff 
trained and TIP victims served. 
--7)  Evaluation Plan: Embassy will monitor monthly number of 
victims served and report results at the end of the project 
period. 
 
--8) Cost estimates: 
 
teaching materials:        1,875 
vehicles:                 20,625 
travel:                    2,500 
training workshops:       31,250 
microenterprise credits:  12,500 
staff training:            2,500 
 
Total:                   $73,250 
 
¶4.  Embassy POC for TIP-related issues is Political Officer 
Erik Hall, who can be reached at (502) 331-1541 ext. 4635; 
fax: (502) 334-8474. 
HAMILTON