Community Based Prevention Measures

Community Based Prevention Measures on Child Trafficking

  • JMJ adopts a range of comprehensive measures for ensuring protection of children, preventing children from falling prey to sex traffickers as a first step. Starting from mobilization and awareness building among families and the general public to more targeted and specific interventions that percolates to children at risk and vulnerable because of the specific conditions of their life’s prevention strategies encompasses a broad range of multi-dimensional interventions.
  • In the year 2008 the Indian government launched an Integrated Plan of Action to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking with special focus on Children and Women. The objective is to bring into mainstream and to reintegrate the women and child victims of trafficking in society. JMJs Plan of Action incorporates several community-based initiatives so as to prevent trafficking such as awareness raising programs directed to particularly vulnerable communities and the involvement of communities to act as watchdogs and informants on traffickers and exploiters.