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Children Trafficking’ Coalition (‘BKTF’), a recently-formed network of NGOs, which work together
against child trafficking, and by other international organizations, including IOM, ILO, ICMC, and
OSCE. The initiative has also benefited from the support and advice of the Task Force on Human
Trafficking of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (SPTF).
In preparing this Strategy, the working group also took particularly into account the 2003 UNICEF
Guidelines for the Protection of Child Victims of Trafficking in SE Europe, relevant domestic and
international legislation and instruments, as well as national, international and NGO analyses and
reports on the phenomenon in Albania.
V. Objectives of the Child Trafficking Strategy and Action Plan:
The Child Trafficking Strategy aims at accelerating current initiatives to reduce and eradicate child
trafficking in Albania by strengthening and coordinating the activities of all involved government
institutions, international partners and domestic and international NGO-s through the fulfillment of
the objectives, actions and deadlines in the attached Action Plan over a 2-year period (2005-2007)
Priority is given in the action plan and strategy to identifying and prosecuting traffickers and their
conspirators through enhanced law enforcement efforts within the community and at state borders, as
well as to measures to assist children who are at risk of being trafficked or who have been trafficked,
in their medical, psychological, social and economic rehabilitation.
In this regard, the new Strategy addresses not only the provision of adequate temporary shelter and
the capacity building needs of social care workers and institutions, but also longer term rehabilitation
and integration issues, such as family support and the development of fostering and adoption services,
based on the right of every child to be raised in a family.
Measures are also envisaged to address the abandonment of education, illegal child labor, poverty
reduction, and vocational training needs, as alternatives to illegal migration, trafficking or retrafficking.
Priority is given to public awareness measures, both by government and by specialized domestic
and international organizations, targeting rural and marginalized communities, and the most vulnerable
sectors of urban society.
The Strategy also envisages the creation of a dedicated national child protection structure
operating at prefecture as well as central level to coordinate and supervise the prevention, protection
and rehabilitation activities of education, health and social services, law enforcement, and local
government officials. Encouragement will also be given for the formation of local level partnerships
of government and non-government actors to work with representatives of the central structure in
implementing the strategies contained in the Action Plan.
The Strategy is based on the conviction of the Government of Albania that child trafficking, like
all other forms of human trafficking, is a crime and an offence against the dignity and human rights
of its citizens, which it has the main responsibility for combating and eradicating.
At the same time it recognizes that, within this overall framework of government ‘ownership’ and
responsibility, as indicated in the assignment of responsibilities within the draft Child Trafficking
Action Plan, partnership and cooperation with the non government sector and international partners
and donors is both necessary and beneficial, given its own lack of financial and human resources, as
well expertise in certain areas.
The Government nonetheless attaches considerable importance to domestic capacity building and
sustainability in all the actions and programs envisaged in this medium term Strategy.
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