Good Practices - 2018The Down to Zero Alliance, a joint effort between Terre des Hommes Netherlands, Plan Netherlands, Defence for Children - ECPAT, Free a Girl and ICCO Cooperation, Works in 10 countries in Asia and Latin America to eradicate Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.These are the Good Practices in the 10 countries members of the Alliance

Good Practice - India1.

Approach to the formal and informal

touristic sector

2.

Individual meetings with stakeholders to understand the issue of CSEC in-depth and what their role would be in the process of taking preventive child protection measures.

3.

Provide orientation and trainings to stakeholders to understand the

issue of CSEC, its prevalence/occurrence in India and how it could be prevented within

their operations.

4.

Companies are aware of CSEC and acknowledge the problem/importance in tackling it; are aware of how investment/engagement leads to positive branding; are CSEC free/demonstrate zero tolerance towards CSEC.

Proposals from the stakeholders: To work with the government for authorization to put information/awareness raising materials on child protection in their railway stations, bus stations, airport and at the entrances of the temples, informing the people about the law and the number where to report cases. Mutual campaign design with posters, pamphlets and a badge

Result 1:Some of the three wheeler drivers, car drivers and tourist guides have reported suspected cases of child sexual exploitation by tourists, hotels that are giving rooms for rent for sexual exploitation and identifying children who go to these hotels for that purpose. They have identified four hotels which are promoting sexual exploitation of children and adults and have developed an action plan to tackle it (go to the police, document what is happening). They’ve also put up stickers on child protection on their vehicles.

Result 2:

Regional government joined the cause and provided the hotel conference hall for the trainings of the private sector. The regional government also attended and opened the dialogues during this training.

Result 3:The government representative put up the number of Childline and child protection messages on the sign boards along the roads and in public spaces which are under the Tourism's jurisdiction.

Result 4:

Methodology

Result 5:Two five-star hotels have recruited, after three months, four girls from the village who were victims of CSEC in housekeeping.

Good Practice - Indonesia

Partnership with prosecutors through The Attorney’s General Education and Training Center (TAGEaTC) to write a module regarding prosecution and protection sexual exploitation of children victims as well as conducting training with the same theme. The MoU consist of:

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Writing module in case-handling of SEC cases

Replicate the capacity building to other prosecutors in the wider areas through SEC prevention program.

Materials

The three days training covers some 1) Child Rights and International Law (inc. CRC, OPSC), 2) Sexual Exploitation of Children (de�nition, forms, modus), 3) Indonesian Law related to SEC, 4) Procedure of criminal law incl. the ethic codes of prosecutors, and 5) Restitution.

Conducting a capacity building for prosecutors in the area of Jakarta and West Java

Prosecutors were not really aware of the holistic de�nition of SEC and the vulnerability of SEC victims, therefore some verdicts decided could not really solve the problem

Findings

The gender biased perspective still appear between prosecutors, like blaming the girls who are in prostitution

Prosecutors are interested to apply restitution, yet the technical issues (i.e. counting the amount of the consequences that suspected should be ful�lled) could not be disclosed by Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK).

Good Practice - PeruPreventive committees of 3 educational institutions implemented actions for CSEC prevention at internal level as well as in their community, being all actions planned, promoted and i l d b h C i h l

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The integration of the committees was also

strengthened, while carrying out joint actions and feeling

satisfied with what has been achieved

2.

Training on the issue and accompaniment in the processes through technical advice, promoting autonomy and freedom to the

actors, respecting their schedules and decisions.

3.

Training and implementation

considering importance of the

theoretical / practical learning

4.

Involvement of teachers, principals,

female and male students, parents and

other community institutions, such as

the Health Center, the Family Prosecutor's Office, the Municipal

Ombudsman for Children and

Adolescents, etc. in the Committees

The actions within the educational institutions have provided information about achievement framework, etc to students at various times within the day, during school training.

Result 1:The organization of drawing contest or other artistic expression among female and male students has been related to CSEC prevention. As a result, the winning drawings of these contest we have printed in the institutional calendar of CHS Alternativo for 2019.

The city of Iquitos’ committees considered it pertinent to carry out actions towards the community; one of them being an artistic show with preventive messages that took place in the main square of the San Juan Bautista district, also street banners and the participation in fairs.

Peru – Iquitos and Lima

Methodology

Result 2:

Result 3:

Good Practice - Philippines

Children participate in decision-making within the family, community and local government regarding their rights.

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Assistance and referral for shelter/safe space: medical and counselling, victim supports services, 5-months self discovery and actualization sessions, twice a month one-on-one follow-up, implementation of support to child's life & career plans, residential care and activity center operation, psycho-social and psycho-spiritual care in the residential care center and activity center, case management, life planning and others

Their behavioral changes were observed and validated through regular one-on-one dialogues with children and parents, counseling sessions, home visits, parent-child dialogues, school visits, pre and post assessments and evaluation of their life/career plans as documented in the case management

The parents/guardian and family members are provided with interventions through livelihood and skills training and psychosocial support

Direct educational assistance through scholarships to formal education and Alternative Learning System (ALS) program. The children were also referred to partners for job-readiness and skills training programs

27 children (13 males, 14 females) were included in the program through community-based referrals and outreach work, while 14 children (6 males, 8 females) were referred to the program from actual rescue operations of law enforcement agencies and government social workers

Results

Established peer and community support groups for the children through the Young Dreamers and Kauban Ka (FORGE), Peer Support Groups (Bidlisiw), and Child Rights Advocates and Community Watch Groups (CLB). These support groups provide positive in�uence and social support to children to motivate, inspire and monitor their healing and reformation progress

Throughout these processes, the child becomes more con�dent in his/her decision to opt out from CSEC/OSEC when the family and/or peers are supportive and involved in the healing and transforming process

The Philippines– Lapu-lapu, Cebu and Mandaue

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Good Practice - Thailand

Rehabilitation of a girl victim of trafficking for sexual purposes

A Lao girl victim of trafficking for sexual purposes, who was placed in a government shelter in Naressawat received deep rehabilitation and empowerment

AAT made regular visits, provided art therapy for rehabilitation as well as education about laws and how to protect her rights

She was provided with vocational training

In 2018 she was repatriated in her home country

RESULTS

Thailand – Naressawat

She has integrated the Made In Mekong social enterprise of AAT in Vientiane. The social enterprise is a coffee shop with handicraft selling from the Mekong region (mainly Thai and Lao products). She was trained on coffee making directly in the shop. It is managed by AAT which employs girls as baristas and handicraft seller. The coffee shop is connected with a network of local businesses (other than coffee related businesses) where interested girls are referred to for vocational trainings. She followed vocational training during 20 days of how to prepare coffee. She is now working independently inside the Made In Mekong coffee shop

Good Practice NicaraguaMethodology for the creation of community committees for protection of sexual violence

against boys, girls and adolescents

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Consultation at an Individual level

2.Consultation at a Community level

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Consultation at Community leaders

level

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Committee for children's protection

5 subcommittees in the communities for children and adolescent’s protection at risk and victims of sexual violence with emphasis on sexual exploitation, supported by the Public Ministry, the Ministry of the Family and the Ministry of Education. .

promote safe spaces within the community through the elaboration and implementation of an action plan against sexual violence and CSEC and coordinate with guarantor instances to generate a referral system for victims.

Objective of the committees Prevention to address parents or tutors to inform them about the issue, risk factors and protective factors facing CSEC. Protection and Advocacy to strengthen, appropriate and adhere to the existing reference model in the district's guarantor institutions for the protection of sexual exploitation victims.

Work plan of the committees:

Child protection committees are a reference point, where children expose their fears, how they live and how they face violence in their communities. The committees recognize the specific and individual vulnerabilities of children and adolescents and work to achieve an inclusive approach for their protection.

Impact on children:• Behavior changes among parents and guardians in their children’s protection•Children Protection Committees supported, advised and guided by the Public Ministry, the Ministry of the Family and the Ministry of Education.• 1200 copies of information material distributed every year throughout the communities.• Identification of 5 high-risk points in Masachapa and proposal of solutions.• Greater skill and knowledge for the follow-up of cases through coordination with state institutions, accompanied of 7 cases in their complaint to the authorities in 2018.• The Masachapa's Fishermen Cooperative supports the committee at management level to search for solutions to high-risk points in the community.

Achieved results

Methodology

Place: Madroñal, Masachapa, San Pablo, El Salto and Pilas Sépticas communities, San Rafael del Sur municipality

Good Practice - BoliviaBolivia - La Paz and Santa Cruz

Training processes began in 2017, strengthened by a one-week internship at the Munasim Kullakita Foundation's o�ces, where the Social Policies Service of the Departmental Government of Santa Cruz and the Ombudsmen for Children and Adolescents of the Municipality of La Paz learned how to interact with the community and identify areas and spaces of risk, as well as the procedure to contact the population at high risk of vulnerability.

Local governments acquire community models to prevent CSEC

At the beginning of 2018, accompaniment by the Munasim Kullakita Foundation was carried out in the regions, contextualizing the model according to the community dynamics from the cities of Santa Cruz and La Paz.

A care center was opened in Santa Cruz to hold twice a month meetings with more than 18 departmental council institutions, which has the mission of collecting information from the population and interacting with the community, becoming a reference center for the population when a case is identi�ed.

Result 1.

The Mobile Ombudsman for children and adolescents started operating in the city of La Paz.

Result 2.

Good Practice - Brazil

Creation of a central committee with the composition of universities, federal government, international cooperation agencies and with working groups: 1. Communication, 2. Fundraising; 3. Scientific Commission and 4. Participation and protagonism in the the II Brazilian Congress of Confronting Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents

Public Policies, Society and Sustainability

• Public policies, sexual human rights of children and adolescents and institutional violence (sexual abuse and exploitation)• Networking from the perspective of intersectoriality and integrality of all involved actors (children, adolescents, families, communities and violence perpetrators)• Reporting, Monitoring and/or Evaluation of Policies, Plans, Programs and Actions on combat against Sexual Violence, including the Sustainable Development Objectives (SDG) Civil society and its different organizations, perspectives and challenges in guaranteeing rights.

Participation and protagonism of children, adolescents and young

people

• Participation of children and adolescents and young people in self-organized spaces to guarantee their human rights, including sexual rights;• Participation in spaces of articulation, mobilization, public policies and social control, in the guarantee of sexual human rights; Information, communication and technologies in guaranteeing or violating the sexual human rights of children, adolescents and young people.• Information, communication and technologies in guaranteeing or violating the sexual human rights of children, adolescents and young people.

Diversity and Equity Guarantee

• Sexual Human Rights of Children and Adolescents and interface with markers: ethnic-racial, traditional peoples and communities, LGBTI, gender, generation, people with disabilities, migration, human mobility, religiosities, social classes, street situations, children and adolescents in labor contexts, children and adolescents deprived of their liberty, threatened with death, among others • Thematic social movements and articulation with the human rights movement of children and adolescents.

Social responsibility and coping with violence

• Economic Development Programs in the context of Tourism for guaranteeing the Human Rights of Children and Adolescents • Human Rights and Business: guarantee practices and/or violation of the rights of children and adolescents • Religious actors and they role to combat Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents• The Media: Responsability and/or violation of the sexual rights of children and adolescents

915 people registered 785 participated 83 practice and academic works submitted

63 academic works presented

RESULTS

Brazil - Brasilia

Good Practice - ColombiaConstruction of protective environment for the advocacy of children victims of commercial sexual exploitation in the context of travel and tourism.

1.

Recollection of inputs for the collective design of a communication and mobilization strategy

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Identification of the CSEC dynamics in the locality, from the perspectives of each sector

3.

Prioritization and development of prevention actions from each sector

4.Recognition of training needs to include them in the prevention process, through a diploma or seminar designed in conjunction with local universities. (For trainers)

Strategies for the multiplication and visibility of CSEC prevention in the context of travel and tourism with peers and other social and governmental actors were developed. They were recognized as a leading group

Actor 1: Children and adolescentsRepresented by the District Institute of Tourism, the Tourism Police and the Local Mayor's Office of La Candelaria. Actions to strengthening capacity processes were carried out for the institutional response, accompaniment in the processes of articulation and appropriation of the strategy as part of the objectives in the local agenda, achieving political positioning of CSEC prevention.

the commitment transcended to the adoption of codes of conduct. From the Colombian Association of Hoteliers (COTELCO), processes of articulation and construction of multisector action plans were led, achieving the incidence with the State.

raising awareness dialogues were initiated with the academy represented by the Externado University, the government sector and the private sector. Subsequently, a multi-sectoral committee was created for the construction of a local diagnosis that supports an action plan to prevent CSEC in the territory.

Place: Colombia- La Candelaria, Bogotá

Methodology

Actor 2: Government sector

Actor 3: Private sector Actor 4: Community

Results:The appropriation of the inputs by the Mayor of the locality, promoting the construction of the action plan and including it as a fundamental point in his local agenda. The process is part of the certification of La Candelaria as a sustainable tourism area, which includes an environmental, economic and sociocultural component, with CSEC prevention being the central axis of the latter. This allowed the visibility of the sustainability policy and the code of ethics built collectively by the various actors participating in the process. The effectiveness of this best practice was assumed by local governments as part of their agendas, aimed at the construction of an action plan for CSEC prevention. The multi-actor strategic articulation is complemented by the process of certification of the La Candelaria area as a sustainable tourism area.

Good Practice - Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic – Boca Chica, Santo Domingo; San Pedro de Macoris, Quisqueya; La Altagracia, Verón Punta Cana; Puerto Plata

1. Bringing interventions to community groups in the same sectors where families and community leaders live

Community protection mechanisms are effectively implemented for the prevention and response to tra�cking and CSEC of young people

and adolescents

2. Adapting the interventions schedules to weekends (Saturdays after domestic tasks and Sundays) 3. integrating more targets in the community: business owners, teachers, policemen/policewomen which also allows greater promotion of the project.

Result 1. These direct interventions in each sector also facilitates interaction between all actors in the same community and motivates families to participate more actively in Psychosocial assistance to children and adolescents at risk of sexual exploitation.

Results

Methodology:

Result 2. parallel spaces arise like the interaction between pairs (children and adolescents). Children use a separate room or space to interact and peer multipliers of the project use the occasion to talk about sexual exploitation prevention.