The main thrust of ECPAT's work is to make a reality of the Agenda for Action adopted by 122 countries at the First World Congress against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996. This work takes different forms.

We follow what governments are doing, and have done, to combat commercial sexual exploitation of children, and we publish the results. We explore good models for prevention work, and share those models and experiences. We find and develop training modules to help caregivers to do their work better. We develop learning tools for police training curricula. We provide advice and information to groups who are trying to make a national plan for their country, or to implement an existing plan. We carry out research and develop research methodologies. We promote the participation of young people in seeking solutions to the problems and in providing support to victims.

The tools and information that you will find throughout the ECPAT programmes are intended to help non governmental organisations, individuals, caregivers, legislators, and all those who are trying to combat child prostitution, child pornography and trafficking in children for sexual purposes.

A Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children was held in Japan in December 2001. One of the main outcomes of the Congress is the re-commitment to the Stockholm Agenda for Action in the Yokohama Global Commitment. By virtue of this re-commitment, coupled with the attendance of representatives of states who did not participate in the first Congress, the number of states committed under the Agenda for Action now totals 161.