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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 05 LAGOS 000177 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR AF/W 
STATE FOR INR/AA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KWMN KCRM PHUM ASEC ELAB SMIG NI
SUBJECT: NIGERIA:  FY 2006 PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR ESF 
ANTI-TIP FUNDING 
 
REF: 05 SECSTATE 226696 
 
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SUMMARY 
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¶1.  Mission Nigeria submits the following proposals to help 
Nigeria increase its capacity, raise community awareness, 
build anti-trafficking outreach networks and support a local 
NGO with anti-trafficking capacity-building focused on 
trafficking in women.  These proposals focus on states with 
significant trafficking problems, either as source or 
destination locations.  All four proposals are new projects. 
The total amount requested for the four proposals is 
$149,912.  End summary. 
 
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ONE:  COMMUNITY DIALOGUE IN ENDEMIC TRAFFICKING AREAS 
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¶2.  Title of project:  Program of action for community 
dialogue in select critical local government areas (LGAs) of 
Edo, Ogun, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, and Imo States. 
 
¶3.  Name of recipient organization / government agency: 
NAPTIP 
 
¶4.  Duration of project:  Two months 
 
¶5.  Description:  The project will bring together all 
stakeholders, including NAPTIP officials, immigration 
officers, school leaders, victims, local government 
officials, youth associations, parents, teachers, faith-based 
organizations, market women and women's groups, community 
leaders, and traditional rulers in each of the selected LGAs, 
in an unfettered environment for an exchange of ideas and 
discussion of NAPTIP's anti-TIP programs, government 
direction, TIP causes, public perception, and rehabilitation 
programs.  All unscripted responses will be recorded for air 
on local radio stations in these states in their local 
languages. 
 
¶6.  Justification:  A review of states where TIP is prevalent 
shows community apprehension towards government policies, due 
in part to the manner in which the programs are formulated 
and delivered without stakeholder and/or community input. 
Rather than building a basis for mutual cooperation and 
interaction, the programs instead alienate the public.  This 
program seeks to eliminate this problem by sharing NAPTIP and 
government plans, actions, and policies geared towards TIP 
with the stakeholders to assess their goals, seek their 
collaboration, identify access, strengthen collaboration, 
share best practices, and build cells of 
anti-human-trafficking advocates.  These dialogues will be 
recorded and aired on local radio in each local government 
area. 
 
¶7.  Performance indicators:  The primary performance 
indicator will be the number of anti-human-trafficking 
advocacy cells organized as a result of these sessions and 
broadcasts.  Through this process anti-TIP awareness will be 
increased in the LGAs and communities and an effective 
feedback mechanism from stakeholders to government/NAPTIP 
will be established.  The program will also provide valuable 
experience in developing programs for broadcast media that 
will be applied in future efforts. 
 
¶8.  Evaluation plan:  NAPTIP will report on completed 
sessions, provide the resulting broadcasts, follow-up on 
interactive sessions, and encourage regular meetings to share 
best practices among local governments. 
 
¶9.  Budget breakout (eleven events): 
 
Transportation for participants...............$25,025 
 
Materials and airtime/production..............$22,429 
 
Total........................................ .$47,454 
 
 
¶10.  Type and amount of host government contribution: 
Supporting activities for eleven events valued as follows: 
 
Venue and setup for meetings...................$5,610 
 
NAPTIP transportation to meetings..............$9,064 
 
Total........................................ .$14,674 
 
 
¶11.  Proposed funding mechanism:  Obligation and disbursement 
through Post per state-by-state implementation progress 
payments. 
 
¶12.  Embassy point of contact:  Poloff Gary B. Applegarth 
 
¶13.  Other donors, if any:  None 
 
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TWO:  PRODUCTION OF MEDIA MESSAGES IN LOCAL LANGUAGES 
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¶14.  Title of project:  Production of radio and television 
jingles in regional languages anti-human trafficking campaign 
promotion 
 
¶15.  Name of recipient organization / government agency: 
NAPTIP 
¶16.  Duration of project:  Two months 
 
¶17.  Description:  This project will produce 
anti-human-trafficking campaign jingles for radio and 
television in the five main languages in the country.  The 
endemic nature of human trafficking in some parts of the 
country requires a grass-roots approach to the packaging and 
direction of messages.  NAPTIP feels that ignorance of both 
the law and the damaging effects of trafficking can be 
reduced if messages are developed in the different regional 
languages.  Activities will include concept development, 
script writing, casting, music development, and promotion and 
production. 
 
¶18.  Justification:  Some previous NAPTIP initiatives have 
suffered from poor messaging that fails to reach and/or 
convince the target, at-risk populations.  After three years 
of operation NAPTIP conducted an assessment with stakeholder 
analysis, including the message recipients.  NAPTIP learned 
their messages would be more effective if they were produced 
in the dominant language in use in the respective areas. 
 
¶19.  Performance indicators:  Project performance will be 
demonstrated by the successful production of anti-TIP 
messages in the five major languages.  Effectiveness will be 
measured via feedback collected at regional sensitization 
events in the respective areas. 
 
¶20.  Evaluation plan:  NAPTIP will report progress in the 
production of each message over the two month period, and 
provide copies of the finished products. 
 
¶21.  Budget breakout (five messages): 
 
Casting and collation of rushes........$1,569 
 
Production and editing................$13,726 
 
Total.................................$15,295 
 
 
¶22.  Type and amount of host government contribution: 
Supporting activities valued as follows: 
 
Concept and script development.........$1,765 
 
 
¶23.  Proposed funding mechanism:  Obligation and disbursement 
through Post at completion. 
 
¶24.  Embassy point of contact:  Poloff Gary B. Applegarth 
 
¶25.  Other donors, if any:  None 
 
 
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THREE:  MOBILIZING STRATEGIC STAKEHOLDERS 
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¶26.  Title of project:  Mobilizing strategic stakeholders to 
combat human trafficking. 
 
¶27.  Name of recipient organization / government agency: 
Women's Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON) 
 
¶28.  Duration of project:  Twelve months 
 
¶29.  Description:  Mobilize and build the capacities of 
strategic stakeholders in the targeted source communities in 
Ogun, Ebonyi and Edo States and the destination / transit 
urban center of Lagos to prevent human trafficking, 
especially of women, and rescue and integrate those already 
trafficked to the receiving state of Lagos.  This will be 
achieved through sensitizing and training key stakeholders in 
the targeted areas; consulting with key stakeholders to 
obtain their commitment and input for addressing their 
communities; establishing social contracts with target 
communities and task forces to monitor and enforce its 
provisions; production of posters, t-shirts, stickers, 
booklets, and other educational or promotional materials; and 
building economic capacity within the target communities 
through establishing cooperatives and providing technical 
training. 
 
¶30.  Justification:  Although many stakeholders including 
NAPTIP are rising to the TIP challenge with some success, TIP 
remains a critical problem.  Anti-TIP activities are 
complicated by the uncoordinated and untrained approach used 
by those stakeholders attempting to intervene.  These 
shortcomings stem from a lack of understanding of the 
elements that constitute human trafficking, and ignorance to 
a standard approach for TIP law enforcement and prevention. 
Ignorance is especially prevalent regarding trafficking of 
children, as most people are oblivious to the problem, 
holding the misguided belief that children need to work hard 
or "suffer" if they are to succeed.  Consequently, many do 
not see that it is wrong for parents to give up their 
children to traffickers to be sold into domestic servitude. 
 
¶31.  Performance indicators:  At the end of the project 
social contracts describing strategies and commitments to 
combat human trafficking will be in place in the targeted 
communities of Edo, Ogun, Ebonyi and Lagos States.  At least 
four task force committees will be in place in the targeted 
areas to monitor community compliance with the social 
contracts and commitments to the prevention of human 
trafficking.  At least six income-generating cooperative 
groups comprising of ten persons each will be operating in 
the rural communities of Edo, Ogun and Ebonyi States.  The 
final indicator will be rescue and reintegration of at least 
30 trafficked persons.  The program will inform targeted 
rural communities about the adverse effects of human 
trafficking.  200 representatives of stakeholders and opinion 
shapers of the targeted communities will be sensitized and 
educated on the harmful effects of human trafficking as well 
as preventive measures.  500 booklets with guidelines for 
prevention and reintegration of trafficked persons will be 
produced and tested in the targeted communities in the four 
States. 
 
¶32.  Evaluation plan:  The impact on participants will 
evaluated through the completion of questionnaires.  The task 
force committees in each of the targeted communities will 
monitor the activities, and records will be assessed every 
month.  These results will be reported to Mission at least 
quarterly.  Visits will be made by WOCON to the targeted 
communities to directly assess the impact of the 
sensitization of the people through post-assessment surveys, 
particularly of the women and children who are most 
vulnerable to trafficking, to determine their level of 
enlightenment on the anti-trafficking campaign.  Finally, an 
impact assessment will be conducted three months after the 
last consultative forum in the communities and compared with 
the pre-assessment conducted at the beginning of the project. 
 
¶33.  Budget breakout: 
 
Preliminary evaluations of targeted areas....$1,946 
 
Production of materials......................$5,726 
 
Production of local media ads................$3,530 
 
Community outreaches in target states........$5,381 
 
Consultative fora (including materials)......$5,800 
 
Education of downstream trainers.............$8,665 
 
Media campaigns and publicity................$4,408 
 
Targeted training in each State..............$6,902 
 
Equipment.................................... $1,318 
 
Post-event assessments.......................$5,843 
 
Total.......................................$ 49,515 
 
 
¶34.  Type and amount of host government contribution: 
Supporting activities valued as follows: 
 
Production of local media ads................  $118 
 
Equipment.................................... $2,745 
 
Post-event assessments.......................$4,549 
 
Total........................................ $7,412 
 
 
¶35.  Proposed funding mechanism:  Obligation and disbursement 
through Post per implementation progress payments. 
 
¶36.  Embassy point of contact:  Poloff Gary B. Applegarth 
 
¶37.  Other donors, if any:  None 
 
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FOUR:  SCHOOL OUTREACH PROGRAM 
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¶38.  Title of project:  Sensitization outreach to secondary 
school teachers, guidance counselors, and local education 
authority staff in Edo, Ebonyi, Cross River, and Akwa Ibom 
States. 
 
¶39.  Name of recipient organization / government agency: 
NAPTIP 
 
¶40.  Duration of project:  Four days over a one-month period 
 
¶41.  Description:  The project will train education sector 
stakeholders in Edo, Ebonyi, Cross River, and Akwa Ibom 
States on the strategies used by traffickers, to improve the 
stakeholders' ability to convey the anti-human trafficking 
message to their students.  The program will enable NAPTIP to 
plan for integration of an anti-trafficking message into the 
school curriculum.  300 participants from selected schools 
and Local Government Areas of each State will meet in their 
respective capital cities. 
 
¶42.  Justification:  Meaningful grass-roots intervention on 
TIP depends on identifying the individuals who relate with 
and influence the at-risk population on daily basis. 
Teachers, guidance counselors and local education authority 
personnel are an effective conduit for education, 
information, and communication to their students.  The 
project will generate awareness and sensitize the teachers, 
guidance counselors and other stakeholders on the effects of 
human trafficking and child labor and better prepare them to 
pass the message to their students. 
 
¶43.  Performance indicators:  Through this program 
foundations for community-based vigilante groups will be 
established in the four target states, as well as 
anti-trafficking awareness groups at the schools.  This 
sensitization and outreach will increase stakeholder 
awareness and community involvement. 
 
¶44.  Evaluation plan:  NAPTIP will follow up on all events to 
ensure the message is carried to the schools, and a general 
overview and evaluation will be developed via questionnaire. 
 
¶45.  Budget breakout (four events): 
 
Participant transportation..................$21,961 
 
Event meals and refreshments................$15,687 
 
Total.......................................$ 37,648 
 
 
¶46.  Type and amount of host government contribution: 
Supporting activities for four events valued as follows: 
 
Venue and materials..........................$5,961 
 
Media communication and audio/visual.........$5,020 
 
Total.......................................$ 10,981 
 
 
¶47.  Proposed funding mechanism:  Obligation and disbursement 
through Post at completion. 
 
¶48.  Embassy point of contact:  Poloff Gary B. Applegarth 
 
¶49.  Other donors, if any:  None 
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