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Title : Meeting to discuss Phase II of the Youth Partnership Project for Child Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation in South Asia (YPP)
Location :London, United Kingdom
Date :
14 / 8 / 2007
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17 / 8 / 2007
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ECPAT International assisted in an external evaluation of the Phase II proposal of the Youth Partnership Project for Child Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation in South Asia (YPP-SA). The primary objective of the YPP-SA is to instigate, support and strengthen youth participation in the fight against CSEC in South Asia as well as within the global structures of the ECPAT International network. The first phase of the project is currently in its third and final year.
During the mission, ECPAT gave a podcast interview to Christian Aid’s communications department and held a meeting with them to discuss future areas of collaboration. ECPAT also met with Christian Aid’s senior programme funding team.
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Title : National Youth Consultations
Location :Kathmandu, Nepal, and Kolkata, India
Date :
12 / 8 / 2007
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12 / 8 / 2007
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Two of the three YPP country teams organized National Youth Consultations in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Kolkata, India, on International Youth Day (12 August 2007) to launch the YPP Green Band Campaign Against CSEC. The YPP National Consultations are designed to bring YPP youth (peer supporters, youth advocates and youth involved in micro projects) together from around the country to share their experiences and make policy recommendations for government legislation and initiatives to better protect children and provide services for CSEC survivors. In India, the YPP National Consultation was attended by over 600 people, including the Director of Social Welfare of the State, INGO and NGO representatives, police, college and school students and celebrities.
In Nepal, the event was organized by the Ministry of Education and Sports, YPP/Maiti Nepal and the Association of Youth Organizations and was attended by the Minister and other high-level political figures, with over 30 other organisations participating.
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Title : YPP Peer Support Programme activities
Location :India/Bangladesh/Nepal
Date :
28 / 5 / 2007
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31 / 5 / 2007
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India: A YPP Peer Support Programme refresher training session involved 15 youths from drop-in centres and 10 from shelter homes. The training is necessary to ensure that there is a sufficient number of Peer Supporters available to maintain the programme, which is in the process of transitioning into shelters for Year III of the project.
Bangladesh: Twelve MoUs have been signed with shelters that have been selected to participate in the YPP Peer Support Programme. A training session for welfare providers was held on 21 and 22 March, and a refresher training session is also planned.
Nepal: The YPP Peer Support Programme is operational in 13 schools; seven in Kathmandu and six in the eastern region of the country. Topics addressed in the Peer Support Programme include CSEC, trafficking, HIV/AIDS, child rights, child labour, child abuse and the roles that youth can play in combating these issues. Some schools have begun conducting outreach to other schools, and each school involved in the programme has formed a YPP youth group comprising peer supporters and other interested students. Twelve shelter homes have been selected to participate in the Peer Support Programme: six run by Maiti Nepal and six run by other organisations. A three-day orientation was held for participating organisations. MoUs have been signed, and Peer Support activities are already being well-received in several shelters. Improving the environment of shelters is a key objective of this programme.
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Title : Youth Participation Project meeting
Location :Kolkota, India
Date :
8 / 5 / 2007
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10 / 5 / 2007
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A YPP team meeting reviewed plans for the proposed second phase of the project; planned for the YPP regional consultation that will take place in November 2007; and conducted a session on improving the protection of children participating in the project. An assessment of the ongoing project activities was also held to ensure that all three project teams are moving in the right direction and will be in a position to complete all Year III activities by the end of 2007.
The workshop on plans for the proposed second phase of the project was especially important as this information and youth feedback was to be incorporated into a concept note for the project donors in London. Key components discussed included the YPP Team Structure, child protection, peer support, youth action research on CSEC and boys, HIV/AIDS and CSEC, advocacy and participatory monitoring and evaluation.
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Title : Regional Coordination Mission
Location :Kolkata, India
Date :
1 / 2 / 2007
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28 / 2 / 2007
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A Regional Coordination Mission was held in order to ensure that a clear plan for the implementation of Year 3 project activities in India is developed. ECPAT met with the YPP India Team to discuss: finalisation of the project work plan; implementation of the Peer Support Programme for Welfare providers; YPP Advocacy Campaigns; project reporting; and the YPP Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation System (PMES).
Additional meetings were held with YPP youth and caregivers, administrators of organisations selected to participate in the Peer Support Programme, youth involved in YPP micro-projects and YPP youth advocates in Kolkata - to assess the quality of the implementation of project activities.
The YPP India team and SANLAAP launched a youth march campaign along the India/Bangladesh/Nepal border. SANLAAP partnered an NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan to launch an awareness-raising campaign against trafficking through the march. Participants in the march were joined by members of local communities while passing through border cities, towns, villages and the countryside. Over 200,000 people joined en route and more than 5,000,000 have been reached and sensitised through media and other IEC tools.
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