International Development Grant
Combatting Trafficking of Children and Youth
Project Number: CA-3-D000153001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $8,000,000.00
Start Date: March 28, 2014
End Date: December 31, 2020
Duration: 6.8 years
Project Description
This project aims to provide safe and secure futures for children and youth in Ukraine by ensuring protection and assistance for victims and vulnerable persons at risk of human trafficking particularly children and youth. The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of the Government of Ukraine and civil society organizations to provide adequate services to victims and persons at risk of trafficking in line with international human rights standards. It supports the government in: (i) improving access to protection and assistance services for victims; (ii) establishing a more effective prevention mechanism for vulnerable persons; and (iii) improving the capacity in the criminal justice chain to prosecute perpetrators of human trafficking. Some project activities include: (i) improving the National Referral Mechanism to strengthen the capacity of representatives of child protection services and the criminal justice system in selected regions; (ii) working with civil society organizations to provide rehabilitation and reintegration services to 1 450 victims of trafficking; (iii) establishing a more effective prevention mechanism for persons at risk particularly children by developing and implementing a gender-sensitive educational program including career counselling and life skills training raising awareness of trafficking for up to 15 000 children and youth annually; and (iv) training up to 9 000 representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations on victim identification referral and reintegration.
Expected Results
The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (i) improved access to protection and assistance services for female and male victims of trafficking particularly children and youth; (ii) more effective prevention from risks associated with human trafficking for vulnerable persons especially children and youth; and (iii) improved capacity in the criminal justice chain to prosecute perpetrators for trafficking in persons particularly in children.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (December 2020) include: (1) trained over 43 200 stakeholders working in the field of human trafficking on the identification referral and provision of needs-based rehabilitation and reintegration assistance to victims of trafficking in 25 oblasts (provinces) of Ukraine; (2) supported over 1 500 victims of trafficking under the age of 35 who had been identified integrated and included in the International Organization for Migration's reintegration program (of the 1 500 victims of trafficking 98 are children 53% are men or boys and 47% are women or girls); (3) included safe migration and human trafficking prevention learning modules in 20 out of 21 targeted oblast-level institutes offering post-graduate courses in education; (4) supported the establishment of social enterprises in Lviv Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr that generate profit and direct it towards counter-trafficking activities; and (5) trained over 1 300 law enforcement officers and judges (of whom 74% are men and 26% are women) on combating human trafficking and crimes facilitated by information technology.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
IOM – International Organization for Migration
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
EGM Europe Arctic Middle East and Magh
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated