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SUBJECT: Kyrgyzstan Proposals for Trafficking in Persons 
G/TIP-Managed FY 2008 ESF and INCLE Funds 
 
REF:  07 State 161503 
 
¶1. Per reftel instructions, Post solicited anti-trafficking in 
persons project proposals from local organizations. Post received 
three proposals. Per reftel instructions, the complete project 
proposals have been forwarded via e-mail to G/TIP. 
 
     ¶2. Post has reviewed the following project proposals: 
 
A) Applicant: International Organization of Migration (IOM) 
 
     Requested Funding: $ 326,970 
 
Project title: Combating Trafficking in Persons in The Kyrgyz 
Republic 
 
     Project Duration: 18 months 
 
Proposal Abstract: By building upon and complementing IOM's past and 
present activities in the Kyrgyz Republic against trafficking in 
persons, the overall program approach addresses three integrated and 
interrelated aspects of this phenomenon and consequently contributes 
to the efforts of the Kyrgyz authorities in combating trafficking in 
persons to, from and through Kyrgyzstan: prevention through the 
dissemination of information by NGO hotlines to further increase 
public awareness; protection and reintegration assistance through 
support to Victims of Trafficking who are returning/have returned to 
the Kyrgyz Republic by the NGO network; prosecution by supporting 
law enforcement and judiciary structures to more effectively act 
against crimes of trafficking in persons. 
 
The project activities will include: 
Prevention: IOM will continue to support hotlines operated by 
partner NGOs in Bishkek, Osh, Jalal-Abad, Talas, Karakol, Batken, 
and Naryn cities. Counter-trafficking hotlines will serve not only 
as a prevention and assistance mechanism for potential and real 
victims of trafficking, but also as a data-gathering mechanism for 
critical information on perceptions and knowledge of trafficking 
from potential victims. 
Protection: This project will continue the most important practical 
activity of direct assistance in the voluntary return, 
rehabilitation and reintegration of Victims of Trafficking 
implemented by local partner NGOs under the coordination of IOM 
Bishkek. This assistance will include the safe and voluntary return 
of victims, medical and psychological check-ups and treatment if 
necessary, social and legal assistance, assistance in processing 
documents, and assistance in gaining employment when possible. 
Prosecution: This project will provide additional training to 
"front-line" law enforcement and prosecutorial officials from 
specific regions seriously affected by trafficking. The participants 
include border guards, investigators, prosecutors, working-level 
police and immigration officials, judges and public attorneys and 
other relevant law enforcement officials, who will be apprised of 
the latest policy guidelines and legislative developments concerning 
the issue and of victim identification techniques, as well as best 
practices on how to work with victims and convict traffickers. The 
training will assist law enforcement and judiciary structures to act 
more effectively against crimes of trafficking, and will assist 
victims by sensitizing law enforcement to victims' basic needs.  The 
training will also seek to include counterpart officials from 
different agencies, when possible, thereby improving cooperation 
between law enforcement and prosecutorial officials responsible for 
managing borders and the prosecution of traffickers.  The training 
will also allow counterpart law enforcement officials to understand 
more clearly how a cooperative approach to counter-trafficking will 
improve their ability to do their work. 
 
B) Applicant: The Sezim Crisis Center for Women and Families 
 
Requested Funding: $ 46,820.16 
 
Project Title: Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Legal Support to 
Victims of Human Trafficking. 
 
Project Duration: 1 year 
 
Proposal Abstract: The Project on Rehabilitation, Reintegration and 
Legal Support to Victims of Trafficking (VoTs) is aimed at providing 
assistance to VoTs staying in the Sezim shelter and at other places. 
The support will include psychological assistance (consultations, 
individual and group psychotherapy sessions), medical assistance on 
an as-needed basis, social assistance for re-integration VoTs into 
the society, and creating a sustainable system of legal protection 
(legal advice, assistance in drafting legal documents, obtaining 
IDs, lawyer support during 
judiciary process, ensuring safety and privacy of clients), etc. 
 
The following activities will be carried out under the project: 
G/TIP-Managed FY 2008 ESF and INCLE Funds 
 
 
Providing shelter and rehabilitation and reintegration services to 
VoTs, including, but not limited to: receiving referred VoTs at the 
shelter and their identification; medical, psychological, legal and 
social assistance on as needed basis; occupational and art therapy; 
training and re-training; arranging meetings with relatives. 
 
Providing rehabilitation and reintegration services to VoTs that do 
not stay at the Sezim shelter, including, but not limited to: 
medical, psychological and social assistance on as needed basis; 
lawyer support during preparation to court hearings and during them; 
 assistance in liaising with representatives of law enforcement 
authorities, ensuring anonymity and privacy of clients. 
 
It is expected that in the course of the project implementation, 
shelter will be provided to about 50 VoTs; assistance will be 
provided to about 20 VoTs not staying in the shelter; rehabilitation 
and reintegration support will be provided to about 50 VoTs; legal 
assistance (consultations, preparation of getting necessary 
documents and obtaining IDs) will be provided to about 30 VoTs; and 
lawyer support will be provided to about 10 VoTs. 
 
C) Applicant: Adilet Public Legal Foundation 
 
Requested Funding: $ 60,133 
 
Project Title: Strengthening the Legal Protection of the Population 
 
Project Duration: 1 year 
 
Proposal Abstract: The aim of the project is to enhance the 
protection of civil rights and promotion of police system reform in 
the Kyrgyz Republic by providing legal and educational support to 
passport divisions and marginalized groups. 
 
Tasks of the project: 
 
Corruption reduction at passport divisions of interior entities; 
 
Increase in transparency and openness in work of passport 
divisions; 
 
Increase of the confidence of the population to the work of interior 
entities; 
 
Increase in the professional level of work of interior entities 
staff; 
 
Forming of more accessible image of personnel of passport 
divisions; 
 
Promotion of bringing the working level of passport divisions up to 
international work standards of law enforcement bodies. 
 
The project has two main components: 
 
  Rendering free legal aid on the issues of acquisition (and exit 
from) of the Kyrgyz nationality as well as on obtaining identifying 
documents; 
Increase in the professional level of work of officials of passport 
divisions and awareness of NGOs and state bodies. 
 
The implementation of the given components will help achieve the 
following tasks: 
 
Increase the legal protective ability of marginalized groups; 
 
Reduce the level of corruption in passport divisions; 
 
Increase the transparency in work of interior entities. 
 
The first component supposes rendering the legal aid to marginalized 
groups on the issues of acquisition, restoration, and exit from the 
Kyrgyz citizenship as well as on obtaining identifying documents. 
The legal aid will be rendered in the form of consultations and 
representation of interests at courts and law enforcement bodies. 
 
 
This component aims to give detailed information on documenting and 
reduction of procrastination appearing in the process of application 
for documents. The work of the component will ensure a free access 
to information on citizenship and help obtain necessary identifying 
documents for persons, thereby leading to achieving transparency in 
work of passport divisions. 
 
Legal aid will be provided on the following issues: what documents 
are needed to acquire (exit from) citizenship, to obtain the 
identity card (passport, certificate of birth) in result of various 
events (change, loss of passport, achieving 16 years old, etc.), 
G/TIP-Managed FY 2008 ESF and INCLE Funds 
 
dates for submitting and receiving documents, contact information of 
relevant state bodies, passport application procedures, etc. 
It is supposed that the work of the given component will promote the 
monitoring of the police system reform. The analysis of changes in 
work of the passport divisions will ensure more objective assessment 
of work of interior entities and will render assistance in 
improvement of the reform process. 
 
Second component. This component will serve to increase the 
professional level of officials of passport divisions and raise the 
awareness of NGOs and relevant state bodies about the citizenship 
related issues. 
 
In its framework three trainings for officials of passport divisions 
in regions will be conducted. Three trainings will be conducted in 
three regions of the country for officials of passport divisions of 
all provinces on the issues of registration and filling in passports 
and other identifying documents in accordance with the national law. 
 
 
To facilitate the work of passport divisions and ensure the access 
to legal information, it is supposed to issue a Reference book 
composed out of legal acts regulating the order of arrangement of 
identifying documents. 
 
To ensure the transparency of work of passport divisions as well as 
necessary information for population on obtaining identifying 
documents, it is suggested to issue booklets and posters for 
dissemination and placement at passport divisions. 
 
Booklets and posters will include information about the list of 
necessary documents for obtaining passports, application procedures, 
deadlines, order of filling in questionnaires. 
 
The number of all information materials (Reference book, sheets, and 
posters) is computed to cover all passport divisions of the 
republic. 
 
Yovanovitch