TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

5.4.3 Activities Carried Out by the Ministry of Women Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW)
in FY 2014/15 and FY 2015/16
Formation and Mobilization of District Committees - The MoWCSW has already formed District
Committees for Controlling Human Trafficking (DCCHT) in all 75 districts in the country. The District
Committee is composed of representing from district level governmental line agencies, NGOs and
civil society organizations. It is chaired by the Chief District Officer (CDO) and Women and Children
Officer as the member secretary. The District Committees are responsible to formulate, implement,
coordinate, monitor and evaluate anti-trafficking activities and programs in the districts.
Some of District Committees like Morang and Sunsari have also formulated Five-Year District Plan of
Action (2015-2019) based on NPA. Reviewing the District Plan of Action, it is found that they are in
line with the National Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons and include components of
Prevention; Protection; Prosecution; Capacity Development; and Coordination, Collaboration and
Networking. The District Plan of Action contains a matrix of national strategies and corresponding
district level strategies and main activities to be carried out. The Plan of Action identifies main
agencies and supporting agencies for the implementation of the strategies. One of the advantageous
of these districts plan of action is that they are formulated with the wide engagement of key
stakeholders like district level governmental agencies, Nepal Police, Media, Non-governmental
organizations and private sectors. However, these Action Plans do not provide the estimates of
budget required in order to implement each of the strategies and sources of funding.
The following activities were carried out by the MoWCSW in FY 2014/15 are the following:
• Prepared the Implementation Plan 2071 (2014) of National Plan of Action against Human
Trafficking, especially women and children and the Implementation Plan has been in
operation since October 6, 2014.
• Amended the Annex 8 of Guideline for the Operation of the Rehabilitation Centers 2011
(2068) (Standards of Rehabilitation expenses)
• Published National Progress Report 2014 (2070) encompassing activities against TIP
• Revision of the Village Committee for Controlling Human Trafficking Guideline (Formation
and Mobilization) and Local Development Committee (Formation and Mobilization) 2014
and initiated implementation from June 4, 2015.
• Extended to the support of the trafficking survivors by extending the allocation of budget
beyond Nepali Embassy to India and Nepali High Commission of Kolkata to Nepali Embassy
to Thailand since 2014/15 for the rescue, repatriation of the trafficking survivors.
• Published and disseminated a bulletin containing the profile of the organizations working
against trafficking in persons in the country (address, working area, contact number).
• Made provisions for the budget for the staff of the Nepali Embassy to India and High
Commission of Nepal to Kolkata for brining trafficking survivors up to the border of Nepal.
• Conducted an interaction program with the 35 representatives of 25 I/NGOs working against
TIP aiming to extend the coordination and cooperation among the organizations on October
31, 2014.
• Conducted dissemination programs of the Implementation Plan of NPA against TIP in six
places of the country and also organized two regional level workshops (175 participants).
• Conducted one-day interaction program in Nepalgunj, Banke about the amendment of
Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) 2007 (60 participants).
• Extended District Committee on Controlling of human trafficking in all 75 districts; and
formed 134 VDCs/Municipality Committees.
• Published Yatra Patrika (No. 3) on the occasion of the National Anti Trafficking Day.
• Conducted different central level activities on the auspicious of National Anti Trafficking Day
of (Bhadra 20, 2072 or September 6, 2015).
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