IRIS
Social and Labour Inclusion
of Trafficked Persons
Stana Buchowska, PhD
Independent Expert and International Consultant
Helsinki, 19 March 2014
• Programme developed by La Strada Foundation
Against Trafficking in Persons and Slavery in
Warsaw as an outcome of a pilot programme for
230 participants - trafficked girls, women and
men;
• Based on analyses of trafficking cases where
victims were not able to regain control over their
own lives.
Prevention dimension
• Programme of social and labour inclusion
as a prevention of re-trafficking and harm
reduction measure;
Recommendations
1. Full reintegration process of trafficked persons
has to comprise of social and labour inclusion
programme;
2. It should be individually designed and based on
professional needs and risk assessment of each
person;
3. Empowerment and victim’s centred approach is
a base of the entire inclusion process.
3 modules of the programme
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Victim’s identification, crisis intervention,
social, psychological, medical and legal
help, safe accommodation;
Motivation
and empowering trainings,
coaching in a process of job seeking,
vocational and educational courses;
Internship in a selected workplace,
employment found by the trafficked person.
The final result of a pilot programme is a
Model of Social and Labour Inclusion of
Trafficked Persons
mainstream to the national social policy, within
the broader area of social and professional
inlcusion of marginalised groups.
Partnership of public institutions and nongovernmental organisations
• IRIS programme developed a multidisciplinary approach,
with a unique and complementary role of each partner:
• Centre for the Advancement of Women (Foundation);
• Labour Office of Warsaw;
• Social Welfare Centre, district City Centre, Warsaw;
• Ministry of Social Policy – Department of Social
Assistance and Social Integration;
• Ministry of Economy and Labour – Department of Labour
Market.
ROLES of the PARTNERS
• Centre for the Advancement of Women
(Foundation) is responsible for employment
awareness and professional orientation workshops
and coaching.
Labour Office of Warsaw
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searching of employers;
delivering information about labour market.
Ministry of Economy and Labour – Labour
Market Department
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mainstreaming of the project’s results
information of labour offices in Poland about the
IRIS project
intervention support in particular cases
Ministry of Social Policy – Department of Social
Assistance and Social Integration
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mainstreaming of the project’ results
information about the project to all social
welfare centres in Poland
intervention support in particular cases
Social Welfare Center, Warsaw,
district City Centre,
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social support for victims (consultation)
Average beneficiary of the project :
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is between 17 – 25 years old;
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has finished elementary, professional or secondary school;
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lives in the city;
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became a victim of trafficking in human beings abroad;
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before making a decision to leave home country s/he was unemployed and/or
s/he was in difficult personal situation;
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can’t return to her/his family, home and her/his local society (s/he is afraid of
personal safety and of reaction of her/his family and relatives);
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needs social, medical, psychological and legal support.
IRIS client track
Projekt IRIS
COORDINATION SCHEME
INTERNS
SCHOOL
VOCATIONAL
TRAINING
COACH
TRAINER AJS
CLIENT
Statistics
• Identification of 170 victims of trafficking in human beings;
• 85 persons took part in employment workshops, motivation and
empowering trainings;
• 43 persons attended vocational courses;
• 11 persons continued their (previously interrupted) high school or trade
school education;
• 54 persons completed their internship with selected employers;
• 37 got job shortly after completing their internship and/or education;
• 7 persons dropped out the programme.
Multiplication, know how transfer, best
practice exchange
IRIS Programme became a part of two international
platforms for cooperation and best practice exchange:
1. HEADWAY
2. LIFT
HEADWAY – Improving Social
Intervention Systems for Victims of
Trafficking
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Osservatorio e Centro Risorse sul Traffico di Esseri Umani –
Italy
Reintegrationsforderung von Menschenhandelsopfern – Starkung
nationaler Akteure; Germany
Integration of Women Involved in Prostitution into the Labour
Market; Estonia
Cooperacao-Accao-Investigacao-Mundvisao; Portugal
Prekybos zmonemis integracija ir reintegracija I darbine
visuomene; Lithuania
II. LIFT
1.
2.
3.
4.
Taking Care; Italy
ICLUSION II – Integrationsnetzwerk fur Migrantinnen im Land
Brandenburg; Germany
PONTEST una rete per l’inserimento degli immigrati; Italy
CREATE Diversity in Employment; UK