Objectives

This project aims to strengthen responses to complex forms of trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling as organized crimes, while enhancing cooperation among countries affected by conflict.

Components

The project supports capacity-building assistance for selected police-contributing countries and law enforcement authorities in host countries of mission deployments. It includes developing training materials, conducting training-of-trainers workshops in selected police-contributing countries, selecting and supporting a pool of trainers to form a mobile training team that delivers pilot trainings, organizing bilateral meetings between investigators and prosecutors, simulation-based trainings, and transregional meetings.

Main achievements

Training materials on identifying and reporting trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations, covering victim identification, protection, and support for host countries’ law enforcement responses, were developed and used in the delivery of project courses. Three training of trainers workshops were conducted for selected police-contributing countries, namely Nepal, Senegal, and Jordan, to strengthen the capacity of police personnel deployed to UN missions.

In 2024, a three-day training of trainers workshop was held in Nepal with 22 participants from the Armed Police Force and the Anti-Human Trafficking Bureau, all of whom are scheduled for deployment to missions in 2025. Five trainees were selected to join the mobile training team, which will deliver two pilot training courses to selected counterparts.

In 2025 two three-day training of trainers workshops in February 2025 as part of UN peacekeeping missions' pre-deployment training. The workshops were held in Senegal (30 officers, in cooperation with the Armed Forces) and Jordan (29 officers, in collaboration with the Anti-Trafficking Unit (CTU) and in collaboration with the Jordanian Peace Operations Training Center (POTC). The trainings focused on trafficking persons in conflict settings, using case-based methods for victim identification, response mechanisms, and protection. They also addressed the smuggling of migrants in conflict/post-conflict contexts, including the role of criminal networks and gender-related dimensions.

Both POTC and the Nepal Peacekeeping Training School requested follow-up training for instructors, aiming to integrate the module into peacekeeping curricula.

In June 2025, a joint simulation-based training was held in Egypt for 28 investigators and prosecutors from the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Sudan, to strengthen cross-border cooperation in detecting and prosecuting Trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling. CAR and South Sudan requested training of trainers support for national awareness-raising, and all delegations supported forming regional working groups. DRC and South Sudan also requested technical assistance for policy and legislative development.

Impact

In response to the recent call to action launched by more than 30 UN agencies and other anti-trafficking actors within the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons and in alignment with UN Security Council Resolution 2388 (2017), the project adopts a South-South cooperation approach to guide its implementation and ensure long-term sustainability.