Strategic Action Framework for Church Response

Summary of group discussion at Salvation Army/Anglican Meeting in Cape Town 2-6 May 2016

CHILD AND LABOUR TRAFFICKING

Effective PARTICIPATION by local churches and communities

Effective PARTNERSHIPS to Prosecute, Prevent and Protect

Effective PROTECTION methods to support survivors and reduce supply (re-trafficking)

Effective PREVENTION methods to reduce demand and supply Effective PROSECUTION methods to reduce demand

Effective POLICY to provide legislative framework to prosecute, prevent and protect √ Promote the STOP App and research √ Encourage participation on global days: Day of African Child; AHT Day √ Involve and include survivors

√ Mobilise whole con gregations, including men and children

√ Ecumenical and interfaith network on AHT/MS √ Collaborate with governments to ensure all children are regis tered at birth √ Build formal and rel evant partnerships and share good practice

√ Creation of an office/ desk where cases can be reported √ Practical support for those violated / survivors √ Church as point of contact with estab lished referral mechanism

√ Monitoring and evaluation to improve quality of programmes and shelters √ AHT national strategy for churches √ Targeted awareness e.g. through marking Freedom Sunday in churches √ Capacity building for education and awareness raising in local churches √ Sensitise children about their rights in Sunday schools and schools √ Advocacy for stiffer laws and penalties for perpetrators √ Mobilise lawyers to provide legal assistance √ Witness support for holistic needs – including accompaniment to court √ Information sharing about laws and legal processes √ Articulate theology on HT and MS √ Policy on churches as safe spaces – ‘safe church’ policy √ Practical support for those in danger √ Monitoring imple mentation of policy and giving feedback to government √ Have measurable objectives for policy work

√ Girl child education - - members shared with all policies on AHT to be √ All churches to have AHT laws and policies on church members on √ Teach and train

clients. which criminalises – e.g. Nordic Model tackling prostitution on legal approaches to √ Share information all to move on forgiveness to enable brace the act of √ Encourage all to em - - - fessional legal advice structures to offer pro √ Create effective

sage √ Teach on rites of pas grammes up-stream √ Start livelihood pro

vor so not re-trafficked nomic survival of survi √ Assistance to eco skills √ Teaching parenthood family resilience to AHT √ Strengthen economic members by immediate family ing sale/exploitation values – e.g. prevent - √ Strengthen family

and prayers guidance, follow-up √ Offer counselling, ality tance and confidenti - accommodation, accep in terms of security, √ Offer safe havens √ (survivors)

NGOs churches, FBOs and grassroots with other partnerships at the √ Encourage more ers ship with all stakehold seek honest partner √ Each church should -

policies / issues on AHT vivors in the drafting of the involvement of sur √ Churches to push for follow up tion of the victims and √ Proper re-integra - protect prosecute, prevent and framework to provide legislative Effective POLICY to

to reduce demand PROSECUTION methods Effective supply to reduce demand and PREVENTION methods Effective

(re-trafficking) and reduce supply to support survivors PROTECTION methods Effective

Protect Prosecute, Prevent and PARTNERSHIPS to Effective

communities churches and PARTICIPATION by local Effective

SEXUAL EXPLOITATION TRAFFICKING FOR

TRAFFICKING IN CONTEXT OF ARMED CONFLICT

Effective PARTICIPATION by local churches and communities

Effective PARTNERSHIPS to Prosecute, Prevent and Protect

Effective PROTECTION methods to support survivors and reduce supply (re-trafficking)

Effective PREVENTION methods to reduce demand and supply Effective PROSECUTION methods to reduce demand

Effective POLICY to provide legislative framework to prosecute, prevent and protect √ Using church platform to address issues and raise awareness on prevention and protection √ Promoting processes for healing and reconciliation post-conflict

√ Church at regional level has responsibility and is best suited to form partnerships and connect them with national and local level √ Partnering with women’s groups – internally (within denominations) and externally for a shared platform √ Resourcing and equipping local churches and communities to provide holistic and culturally appropriate support to survivors – including reintegration and mediation √ Promoting concept of church as sanctuary for escapees from conflict and capacity building for church leaders to meet their needs

√ Peace building – locally, nationally, regionally √ Community-based child protection committees – developed locally with guidance nationally √ Identify vulnerability post con flict – e.g. children of rape victims – Challenge stigma showing value of each child

√ Journeying with and ensuring protection of victims as witnesses, advocating for national programme of witness support and protection √ Prison ministry to accompany perpetrators to achieve rehabilitation √ Advocating for policy that under 18 = child so they cannot be recruited for military service and are always victims, not perpetrators, when have been abducted/ forced into armed conflict √ Advocate for policy and framework for pro tection/ reintegration of survivors

√ Collect of evidence

ritual purposes very vulnerable – targeted for of people with albinism as √ Specific focus on protection human organs cannot buy or sell consent – e.g. SA law body parts without human organs and against harvesting of √ Advocate for law for protecting victims √ Advocate on policy √ Raise credible voices and information first-hand experience area, speak with spokespeople for this tify the ‘right’ √ Church needs to iden - justice ‘Muslim victim’ to get church to support a powerful for the √ Idea: would be who seek justice the journey for those √ Be companions on prosecution for successful create strong cases collection tool) to (incl. the STOP App powerful information √ Deliver and provide groups are not exploited potential donors so both transplantation and those those in need of organ vulnerable groups, both √ Identify and support can become ‘storytellers’ aware of this issue so they professionals and hospitals √ Make Christian medical need to get educated. organisations and groups community leaders, leadership, institutions, increasing – church stood and is dramatically √ This issue is little under - protect prosecute, prevent and framework to provide legislative Effective POLICY to

mand ods to reduce de PROSECUTION meth Effective -

reduce demand and supply PREVENTION methods to Effective

process through justice victims and support √ Give support to

enforcement legal, business. Law stakeholders, police, √ Include all other health forums, ministry of other country medical medical syndicates and health authorities and √ MUST work with

practice that is now a common with giving blood – and this use to be the case yet we recognise that for ritual exploitation, the use of body parts can be confused with African contexts as it this is difficult in some in need. We realise that transplantation to those professionals to use for upon death for medical donation – consent campaign for organ troduce an Africa-wide √ A challenging idea: in (re-trafficking) supply survivors and reduce methods to support PROTECTION Effective Protect Prosecute, Prevent and PARTNERSHIPS to Effective

communities churches and PARTICIPATION by local Effective