Direct Support for Victims of Trafficking

The United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking is accepting applications for its Global Call for Proposals supporting short-term, high-intensity victims' assistance projects.

Objectives

• This Global Call for Proposals takes into consideration the importance of harnessing all available resources towards the implementation of activities aimed at meeting the objectives of this Grants programme.
• The main objectives of this Grants programme are:
  • to provide direct assistance and protection to vulnerable victims of trafficking in persons
  • to improve health and well-being, facilitate social integration and prevent re-trafficking amongst vulnerable victims of trafficking in persons

Thematic Focus and Priority Issues

This Call for proposals seeks to provide funding support to not-for-profit organisations working in the area of trafficking in persons whose projects are aimed at providing immediate and essential direct assistance for vulnerable victims of trafficking in persons.

Priority shall be given to projects that target the following population:

• Women and Children; and
• Those most left behind, including underserved groups especially excluded or disadvantaged victims of human trafficking (such as persons with disabilities, LGBTQI, internally displaced and refugees, indigenous, older and members of ethnic minorities).

Priority shall be given to projects that adapt programmes or design interventions:

• Facilitating early identification of human trafficking victims;
• Integrate use of innovative strategies and technologies supporting appropriate victim assistance;
• Integrate survivor-focused financial inclusion and economic empowerment approaches to support victims’ rehabilitation and reintegration to society;
• Promote engagement with persons with lived experience of trafficking and taking into account trauma-informed responses for victims’ reintegration into society;

Priority shall be given to projects that target persons identified in the following situations:

• persons identified among large movements of refugees and/or migrants, internally displaced persons affected due to conflict, post-conflict and continued instability,socio-political tensions or a breakdown of law and order;
• persons identified in or fleeing areas that has been affected by the spill-over of climate change related displacement;

Priority shall be given to projects that target the following forms of exploitation:

• sexual exploitation
• forced labour
• organ removal
• forced begging
• forced criminal activity
• forced marriage
• production of pornographic material
• recruitment of children into armed groups
• child trafficking in Sport

• be a non-profit making organisation (NGO, CSOs, CBOs) registered under the relevant Laws of the country where it is registered and in the country where it will be implementing the proposed project;
• have been registered by 1 December 2022;
• be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the project, i.e., not acting as an intermediary;
• demonstrate prior experience of at least two (2) year implementing activities in the area of direct assistance to victims of trafficking in persons in line with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime or in providing other services to vulnerable populations including IDPs and forcibly displaced persons;
• complete registration1 in the UN Partner Portal (UNPP) with a valid Partner ID including Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Module;
• have a bank account in the organisation’s name;
• confirm that the organisation takes appropriate measures to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse and signs the Partner declaration form.