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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 06 DHAKA 000776 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958:N/A 
TAGS: KWMN KCRM PHUM ELAB PREL SMIG ASEC PHUM PREL BG BGPGOV
SUBJECT:  REQUEST FOR ESF FUNDING 
 
 
E.O. 12958:N/A 
TAGS: KWMN KCRM PHUM ELAB PREL SMIG ASEC PHUM PREL BG BGPGOV
SUBJECT:  SOLICITATION FOR INCLE FUNDS 
 
REF:  2005 STATE 221416 
 
¶1.  Per reftel, post is forwarding the following TIP proposal 
submitted from the Daywalka Foundation.  Post supports the 
enclosed proposal. 
 
¶2.  Daywalka, in cooperation with the International Organization 
for Migration (IOM), submitted this 2 year proposal for funding 
in 2005 with Post's input and support and was approved for 
funding.  Per telephone conversations with the G/TIP Office, Post 
was told that it was not necessary to re-submit the proposal in 
order to receive the 2nd year of funding (2006).   However, the 
Daywalka Foundation received different information from its 
contact with the State Department, and so we are submitting the 
proposal even though the deadline has passed.  Post apologizes 
for the delay and the confusion. 
 
¶3.  This is a two year project, originally designed to be 
implemented in 2005 and 2006.  However, due to administrative 
delays, as of February 13, 2006 the grant recipient has received 
no USG funding.  Year 1 will thus begin when funding arrives, and 
year 2 12 months after that. 
 
¶4.  Daywalka's proposal follows: 
 
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¶I.   Title of Project 
 
South Asian Regional Counter-Trafficking Capacity Building:  A 
proposal to create the Women & Children's Security Resource 
Center (WCSRC)-Dhaka - Second Year Funding Cycle 
 
II.  Name of Recipient Organizations 
 
The Daywalka Foundation (Daywalka) & The International 
Organization for Migration (IOM) 
 
III. Duration of Project 
 
Two Years 
 
IV.  Description of Projects 
 
On 26 September 2001, IOM organized a roundtable discussion 
entitled "Anti-Trafficking Initiatives: Bangladesh and Regional 
Perspectives".  The meeting included representatives from the 
Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Home Affairs, Police 
Headquarters, ADB, CIDA, PSU-CIDA, NORAD, Sussex Centre for 
Migration Studies, USAID, UNIFEM, Care Bangladesh, Save the 
Children Denmark, Focal Point Save the Children Alliance, ATSEC 
Bangladesh Chapter, Rights Jessore, INCIDIN Bangladesh, Ain-O- 
Salish Kendra, News Network and RAMRU (Dhaka University).  See, 
Revisiting the Human Trafficking Paradigm: The Bangladesh 
Experience Part I: Trafficking of Adults, The Bangladesh Thematic 
Group on Trafficking, IOM, 2004. 
 
The result of this initial session was the creation of the 
Bangladesh Thematic Group (BTG) with the ongoing coordination of 
IOM.  Participants attending subsequent meetings of the BTG have 
included numerous representatives from governments, donors, IOs, 
NGOs, universities and law enforcement agencies.  Daywalka in 
cooperation with IOM, proposes to increase the capacity of the 
BTG to combat human trafficking by establishing a Women & 
Children's Security Resource Center (WCSRC) in Dhaka, Bangladesh 
to institutionalize ongoing support for the BTG process. 
 
In Bangladesh, the various sectors that adults are often 
trafficked into include: the sex industry, domestic servitude, 
industrial work, hard labor; bonded labor, organized begging, bar 
girls, the fishing industry, and more.  Migrant labor sectors 
include the industrial sector, provision of services (health, 
education, and the like) management, agriculture, what is often 
referred to as the "3Ds" (dirty, demanding and dangerous jobs, 
such as cleaners, construction workers, etc.) and domestic help, 
entertainers, and more. 
 
The BTG has recommended several interventions to reduce 
trafficking risks.  One of these recommendations is to support 
"awareness creation" among potential immigrants about both safe 
migration techniques and the risks of trafficking.  The target 
audiences for awareness-raising include, local community leaders, 
decision makers, prospective migrants, etc.  Some of the BTG 
proposed activities the WCSRC will support include, the 
distribution of easy-to-read and understand safe migration 
pamphlets; posters that highlight important information on safe 
migration; group orientations and one-to-one counseling on the 
subject; creation of migration referral centers that ensure 
migration opportunities are legitimate (these centers monitor 
sites, help with logistical 
arrangements and report any problems identified).  This can be 
done at all levels of society by using targeted mass media, 
rallies, school-based programs, posters, community workshops, 
etc.  The objective is to help people to understand what 
trafficking is and what can be done to stop it within their 
community. See, Revisiting the Human Trafficking Paradigm: The 
Bangladesh Experience Part I: Trafficking of Adults, BTG, IOM, 
¶2004. 
 
Another recommendation by the Thematic Group is to further 
emphasize the importance of demand factors in understanding and 
combating the trafficking phenomenon.  Human trafficking is 
driven by two basic factors: (1) the available supply of people 
who can be tricked, manipulated and/or forced into "slave-like 
situations" and (2) the demand created by those who use these 
people to fill a need for cheap, vulnerable and highly 
exploitative commercial sexual services and/or exploitative 
labor.  Until recently, most reports related to the human 
trafficking sector have focused only on the supply side - the 
trafficked persons, their experiences, what happens to them, etc. 
In contrast to this, few studies have tried to address the 
question of "demand dynamics".  Demand refers to those 
people/organizations/syndicates that create or influence an 
environment allowing the demand for exploitative commercial 
sexual services or exploitative labor to exist. See, Revisiting 
the Human Trafficking Paradigm: The Bangladesh Experience Part I: 
Trafficking of Adults, BTG, IOM, 2004. 
 
The strength of our Bangladesh proposal for capacity-building 
support rests on our ability to assist those organizations, which 
have been involved in the fight against human trafficking in 
Bangladesh for many years. 
 
¶A.  WCSRC      - Dhaka 
 
                    Year 1    $75,500.00 
                    Year 2    $72,500.00 
               Total Request  $148,000.00 
 
The WCSRC-Kathmandu has generated unique, critical returns in the 
fight against trafficking.  By creating a neutral space for 
coordination between all local and international NGO's, Nepali 
law enforcement and other ministries of His Majesty's 
Government/Nepal, the WCSRC-Kathmandu has increased prosecutions 
and convictions, reduced duplication and the zero-sum, 
competitive climate among aid recipients in Nepal.  Daywalka 
intends to create a WCSRC in Dhaka, which will provide the same 
energizing support to the Bangladeshi NGO counter human 
trafficking community. 
 
A WCSRC is a key information hub in a regional network to 
increase cooperation across South Asia.  In partnership with IOM, 
Daywalka will build on its networks across South Asia and 
throughout the nations bordering the Bay of Bengal to combat 
trafficking in persons.  Daywalka has laid a solid foundation for 
implementing scalable, cost-effective, culturally sound and 
sustainable trafficking solutions. Based on WCSRC-Katmandu's 
track record in fiscal 2003-2004, Daywalka partners strongly 
supported broadening our South Asian regional counter-trafficking 
network to Kolkata and Dhaka.  WCSRC-Dhaka will become a 
cornerstone of this network.  Requested funds include capacity 
building and operations costs for the center, as well as, 
computer, literacy and legal rights trainings of survivors and 
library and information outreach and development. 
 
Also included are computer and legal training for local NGO's. 
In cooperation with local IOM staff and other NGOs in Bangladesh, 
the new center will encourage victim re-training and 
reintegration programs.  Small business training facilities in 
combination with microfinance will allow survivors to 
successfully open their own small businesses in Bangladesh. 
 
TDF will work in close partnership with IOM to improve outreach 
to victims of trafficking and to raise awareness of the dangers 
of trafficking in communities historically victimized by 
traffickers.  TDF and IOM have joined to combine their working 
knowledge of South Asian Trafficking in the fight against 
trafficking. 
 
 
¶B.  Bangladesh Thematic Working Group 
 
               Year 1         $8,000 
               Year 2         $6,000 
               Total          $14,000 
 
Daywalka and IOM have established a partnership for addressing 
regional trafficking concerns across South Asia.  Based upon the 
recent success in Dhaka, Bangladesh, of the Bangladeshi Thematic 
Counter-Trafficking Working Group, there are now effective 
communication mechanisms in place for implementation and 
developing novel anti-trafficking activities. 
 
Daywalka is uniquely situated to facilitate this model in 
Bangladesh by recruiting an extremely talented and dedicated 
Bengali WCSRC Advisory Board.  The advisory board will be 
comprised of the key players in counter-trafficking in Bangladesh 
including leaders of local NGOs, members of the Bangladesh 
Police, former governmental commissioners and judges and other 
leading figures in the counter-trafficking community.  Daywalka 
and IOM will continue to establish and facilitate best practices 
trainings, manuals and national and regional workshops to address 
trafficking concerns in Bangladesh. 
 
¶C.  Bangladesh Women's Police Outreach (non law-enforcement 
activities) 
 
                    Year 1         $12,000 
                    Year 2         $  8,000 
                    Total          $20,000 
While the government of Bangladesh has made limited strides in 
combating trafficking, continued economic instability and limited 
development have hampered a coordinated and comprehensive effort 
to address trafficking. 
 
As in other nations of South Asia, including India and Nepal, 
ongoing gaps in victim services include limited legal aid and 
inadequate psycho-social treatment.  In general there is 
insufficient training of police officers regarding trafficking 
victim sensitization and support reaching to all levels of the 
police.  In Nepal, Daywalka coordinates with the Women's Police 
Cell to provide urgently needed psycho-social counseling and 
victim support.  IOM has the expertise of developing LEA training 
manuals in use in Bangladesh.  IOM and Daywalka can also 
cooperate on victim reintegration plans and monitoring 
 
This project synergistically builds on other donors' counter 
trafficking efforts in Bangladesh.  See Annex for donors and 
other organizations involved in the Bangladesh Thematic Group. 
 
With the development of this additional office space in Dhaka, 
Daywalka and IOM's many local partners can provide the much 
needed services to create safe and secure spaces for victims of 
trafficking.  IOM plays a crucial role by providing experienced 
facilitators and trainers and assisting in the development and 
documentation of victim services best practices. 
 
¶D.  Monitoring and Assessment 
               Year 1  $15,000 
               Year 2  $15,000 
               Total      $30,000 
Programmatic and fiscal monitoring of our proposed Bangladesh- 
based WCSRC and its constituent programs, will be undertaken by 
the IOM, through it offices in Dhaka.  Daywalka will provide IOM 
with updates and keep in close contact with its field officers. 
 
Daywalka and IOM personnel will review the progress of anti- 
trafficking programs in consultation with our local NGO partners 
through regular progress reports, field visits which identify 
current objectives and timelines for project completion.  The IOM 
Dhaka office and Washington will be monitoring the project 
activities.  These ongoing evaluations ensure that the overall 
program will remain on schedule and that all of the participating 
stakeholders know what to expect and how to best participate to 
maximize the Center's demand and supply-side anti-trafficking 
responses.  IOM Dhaka office can also support by monitoring the 
victim assistance program, training the police officials on 
`Psycho-social protection.' 
 
All MOUs Daywalka enters into with our local NGO partners require 
timely submission of local program reporting and auditing of all 
expenditures of program funds.  Further, all Daywalka and local 
sub-grantee activities will be monitored in-country by Daywalka's 
country program director, whose efforts will be reviewed on a 
quarterly basis by our Chief Operations Officer. 
 
¶E.  Public Awareness and Capacity Building through Regional 
Database Development 
                         Year 1 $15,000.00 
                         Year 2 $12,000.00 
                         Total    $27,000.00 
 
For many years, reliable data on human trafficking has been hard 
to come by in South Asia, in part due to the inability or 
outright refusal of organizations to share information and 
procedures.  Daywalka's present proposal builds on data 
collection efforts already underway regarding trafficking 
victims,  support services required by then and trafficker 
profiles.  Daywalka and its private full-time attorneys and 
investigators have already collected useful and accurate 
trafficking data and compilation and development of an efficient 
powerful database has begun.  Additional development of 
communication and information networking resources is required in 
order to realize the full potential of this project.  As we 
proceed local and national databases, with information from 
across South Asia will be amalgamated into a fully-functional 
regional counter-trafficking database containing adequate 
operational information about traffickers and their procedures to 
allow large network-wide prosecutions.  Additionally, Daywalka is 
developing databases which track all prosecutions and arrests and 
a survivor database to assess the scope of the problem and 
centralize survivor assistance information. 
 
¶V.   Justification 
 
The transnational dimensions of trafficking require a 
multinational response.  WCSRC partnerships, communication and 
workshops locate local concerns in the broader regional context. 
Our developing network of information hubs is scalable, effective 
and reproducible across South Asia.  The accelerated number of 
prosecutions in Nepal resulting from the strong partnership 
between IOM and Daywalka demonstrate that collaboration must 
exist between counter-trafficking groups if we are to develop and 
implement effective solutions to human trafficking.   We intend 
to replicate this outcome in Bangladesh. 
 
Both the TIP report and Ambassador Miller's recent post-tsunami 
call for increased vigilance against trafficking underscore the 
importance of a regional collaborative effort in South and 
Southeast Asia. 
 
 
VI.  Performance Indicators 
 
Performance is measured in part by further evidence of 
collaboration between local groups and by ongoing joint projects 
and policy development.  Increase in support services will be 
qualitatively recorded by interviewing service providers and 
recipients.  Additionally, number of police officers, service 
workers, government officials, and specifically lawyers trained 
will yield numbers for performance evaluation.  Further, an 
increase in the number of successful prosecutions and the ability 
of local groups to render legal advice and access to the legal 
process to survivors of trafficking will be measured. 
 
     Evaluation Plan 
 
Ongoing assessment is central to Daywalka's strategy to maximize 
the relevance and benefits of the WCSRC model.  Our programs are 
built around counsel from prominent research institutions and 
results-driven philanthropists to continuously measure impact. 
 
     Methodological Concerns 
The Daywalka Foundation is steeped in qualitative approaches to 
research and evaluation, particularly employing the ethnographic 
method to achieve our program goals.   Qualitative methods focus 
on gathering in-depth information about a population through 
detailed interviews with selected knowledgeable community leaders 
and other members and focus on the following evaluation themes: 
     ¶1.   identify and understand the beneficiary population's overal 
          priorities for action and their ranking of different progra 
          activities; 
     ¶2.   identify and understand the beneficiary population's 
          specific priorities within a specific sector; 
     ¶3.   identify and understand the underlying reasons for problems 
          before developing solutions; 
     ¶4.   identify and understand the beneficiary population's 
          language, concepts and beliefs surrounding specific 
          behaviors/situations targeted for change; and, 
     ¶5.   assess stakeholder reactions to our programs to adapt 
          implementation and evaluate (subjectively) the immediate ef 
          of our program. 
Daywalka continuously surveys our local NGO partners to develop 
the most effective and powerful response to human trafficking 
VII. Budget Break-Out (summary) 
 
                     Year 1       Year 2          Project Total 
 
WCSRC-Dhaka          $79,500.00               $78,500.00 
$158,000.00* 
 
Thematic Working Group         $8,000.00      $6,000.00 
$14,000.00 
 
Bangladesh Women's 
Police Outreach      $12,000.00               $8,000.00 
$20,000.00 
 
Monitoring & Assessment        $15,000.00     $15,000.00 
$30,000.00 
 
Public Awareness and 
Capacity Building 
through Regional 
Database Development $15,000.00               $12,000.00 
$27,000.00 
Indirect Costs 
(staff support 
and operations)      $25,900.00               $23,900.00 
$49,800.00 
 
TOTALS               $155,400.00              $143,400.00 
$299,800.00 
 
 
* This total includes funding for local partners ($47,000) 
 
 
VIII. Host Government Contribution and other cost-sharing 
arrangement 
 
 IOM has agreed to cost share with office space and utilities. 
IX.  Other Donors 
 
These funds are subject to a matching grant from the James R 
Greenbaum Jr., Family Foundation 
 
LIST OF REPRESENTING ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN 
DEVELOPING THE ADULT PARADIGM OF THE BTG 
(in alphabetical order) 
 
DONOR AND UN AGENCIES 
Asian Development Bank (ADB) 
AusAid 
Australian High Commission 
Canadian International Development Agency - Programme Support 
Unit 
(CIDA- PSU) 
Canadian High Commission 
Department for International Development (DFID) 
European Union (EU) 
International Labour Organization (ILO) 
International Organization for Migration (IOM) 
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) 
Royal Norwegian Embassy 
United States Agency for International Development 
(USAID/Bangladesh) 
United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) 
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) 
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 
 
INTERNATIONAL NGOs 
Action Aid Bangladesh 
Association for Participation in Development (APS) 
Care Bangladesh 
Caritas Bangladesh 
Canadian Resource Team 
Family Health International (FHI) 
Save the Children Denmark 
Save the Children Alliance 
The Asia Foundation 
The British Council 
 
NATIONAL/LOCAL NGOs 
Ain-O-Salish Kendra 
Aparajeo Bangladesh 
ATSEC Bangladesh Chapter 
Association for Community Development (ACD) 
Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association (BNWLA) 
Bangladesh Center for Communication Programs (BCCP) 
Bagladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF) 
Bangladesh Manabadhikar Sangbadik Forum 
Change Makers 
Center for Women and Child Development (CWCD) 
Centre for Women and Children Studies (CWCS) 
Dhaka Ahasania Mission 
INCIDIN Bangladesh 
Jesh Foundation 
Nari Unnayan Shakti 
Population Council 
Queens University 
Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) 
Rights Jessore 
SHISUK 
 
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 
Bangladesh Police (Headquarters) 
Ministry of Home Affairs 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
Ministry of Women and Children Affairs 
The Government Coordinated Program to Combat Child Trafficking 
(CPCCT) 
and news agencies 
 
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CHAMMAS