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ISF – Actions against trafficking in human beings – 2022

ISF - Actions against trafficking in human beings, aimint at facilitating and enhance breaking the criminal business model of traffickers in human beings by strengthening the law enforcement and judicial responses.

2022-06-21
3 million euro
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Institution European Commission
Sectors Citizenship & Human Rights Civil Protection & Risks Justice, Security, Defence
Beneficiaries All beneficiaries Association & NGO Local Authority & Affiliated Entity
Regions European Union
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EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs), excluding Denmark)


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Priorities and funded actions

Objective

To facilitate and enhance breaking the criminal business model of traffickers in human beings by strengthening the law enforcement and judicial responses against trafficking in human beings, in particular as regards children and labour exploitation.

Priorities

  • Priority 1: disruption of financial flows of the criminal business model of traffickers;
  • Priority 2: intensification of investigations (including evidence-led investigations), prosecutions and the judicial response in the area of trafficking in human beings, in order to dismantle the trafficking chain
  • Priority 3: disruption of the digital business model of traffickers by improving the digital capabilities of law enforcement and judicial authorities
  • Priority 4: improvement of confiscation and asset recovery activities with the view of contributing to the compensation of victims

Among financed actions

  • Developing measures, tools and methodologies aimed at intensifying investigations (including the collection of digital evidence), prosecutions and the judicial reponse in the area of trafficking in human beings, in order to reduce reliance on victims’ testimony and to address, where applicable, the
    use of services exacted from victims of trafficking.
  • Reducing cyber-enabled trafficking in human beings by disrupting perpetrators’ use of the technology and improve the use of technology to prevent and combat trafficking.
  • Operational actions, including joint investigations and increased cooperation and involvement of the labour inspectorates
  • Capacity building, including specialised trainings targeted at officials involved in investigation and prosecution of trafficking offences, and focused on the disruption of the digital business model and of financial flows

Additional information

  • This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
  • Initial duration of the action: 24 months

Eligibility

  • Be legal entities
    • public bodies – including local and regional authorities or European groupings of territorial cooperation or, by the competent authority’s mandate, a public or non-public implementing agency or body of a
      Member State participating in the ISF
    • non-profit making private entities
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries
  • Consortium of minimum two applicants from 2 different Participating Member States
Financement
  • Total budget of the topic “Actions against trafficking in human beings“: 3 million euro
  • Amount of the grant: between 500,000 and 1 million euro
  • Co-financing rate: up to 90%

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