Handbook on Anti-Trafficking Data Collection in South-Eastern Europe: Developing Regional Criteria
In 2004 and 2005 within the framework of the EU CARDS Programme for the Enhancement of Anti-trafficking Responses in South Eastern Europe, SEE countries supported by ICMPD joined forces to tackle the problem of traf cking in human beings by elaborating regional standards and guidelines for the development and implementation of comprehensive National Anti-traf cking Responses. 2006 through 2008 the concrete recommen- dations made by the participating institutions were implemented in the Programme for the Enhancement of Anti-trafficking Responses in South Eastern Europe: Data Collection and Information Management. The results of which were bifurcated locally owned databases, divided into trafficker and victim-centred repositories.
The handbook contains a list of indicators utilised in two databases: one on victims of trafficking and one on traffickers and criminal justice, which have been updated according to the recommendations from the institutions participating in the second phase of the programme. According to the principle of national ownership, the indicators have been developed in close cooperation with partners from the governments of the ten countries/ territories, as well as in consultation with international experts and representatives of international and non-governmental organizations.