The Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
(TIP Office) announces an open competition for projects in support of the Child
Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership between the United States and the
Government of Nepal. The CPC Partnership is jointly developed and implemented
by the United States and the Government of Nepal through a multi-year plan
(approximately five years). The purpose of this CPC Partnership is to advance and
strengthen the efforts of the Government of Nepal and civil society organizations
in Nepal to combat forced child labor and child sex trafficking in a victim-
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centered, coordinated, sustainable, and multi-sectoral approach to support an
effective system of justice, prevention, and protection. This includes the
implementation of a victim-centered prevention strategy that addresses targeted
risk factors, promotes high-quality comprehensive victim protection, and
investigates, prosecutes, and convicts perpetrators of child trafficking.
The Ministry of Women, Children, and Senior Citizens (MoWCSC) is the primary
focal point for the Government of Nepal under the CPC Partnership. However, the
TIP Office anticipates close collaboration with additional government ministries
and agencies at a federal, provincial, and local level including a full range of
criminal-justice stakeholders. The full partnership will be posted online here:
Child Protection Compact Partnerships - United States Department of State
Nepal is the eighth CPC Partnership the US government has negotiated globally;
the TIP Office has active CPC Partnerships in Peru, Mongolia, Colombia, and Cote
d’Ivoire, and previous CPC Partnerships with the governments of Jamaica, the
Philippines, and Ghana. More information is available at: .
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity is to advance and strengthen
the efforts of the Government of Nepal and non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) in Nepal to combat child trafficking in a victim-centered, coordinated,
sustainable, and multi-sectoral approach to support an effective system of
prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership. Applicants are expected to
propose activities that align with the goals and objectives outlined below from the
U.S.-Nepal CPC Partnership text. Applicants should use the following illustrative
activities to guide their proposals but are not expected to include every item
listed:
Objective 1 (Prevention): The Government of Nepal, particularly local
government, coordinates with NGOs on child trafficking prevention efforts that
are comprehensive and contextualized into local community child protection
initiatives.
Illustrative Activities:
• Capacity Building
o Strengthen and empower Local Coordination Committees on Human
Trafficking; Train Child Welfare Officers to further identify and combat child
trafficking;
o Provide technical assistance to the MoWCSC on effective prevention
strategies.
• Awareness Raising
o Engage schools and communities on action plans to identify and
prevent child trafficking;
o Engage families and communities about the risks of child trafficking
among vulnerable communities;
o Work with government and local communities to increase child
registration for identification.
• Community Interventions:
o Targeted interventions for most at-risk populations; examples
include but not limited to working with cash plus programs,
community savings and loans cooperatives, financial inclusion
strategies, vocational training, and alternative livelihoods;
o Pilot or support community resilience programs to minimize the
effects of disasters and climate change that exacerbate child
trafficking risk factors.
Objective 2 (Protection): The Government of Nepal supports child trafficking
victims by providing accessible trauma-informed, victim-centered care, and
supports NGOs to protect children throughout the country.
Illustrative Activities:
• Training and Curriculum Development
o Expand social workers’ use of victim-centered and trauma-informed
approaches;
o Build capacity of local child-care centers with curriculum on
minimum standards of care and sustainability plan.
• Direct Victim Support
o Enable organizations to provide protection services to child
trafficking victims;
o Identify and support protection services for male victims of
trafficking, including shelter services for boys;
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o Support reintegration efforts, including but not limited to vocational/
apprenticeship training, paying of school fees, and small business
support.
• Standard Operating Procedures
o Create SOPs and/or handbooks to guide victim support in partnership
with local committees;
o Support implementation of identification guidelines with MoWCSC;
o Develop repatriation procedures, SOPs, and guidelines for crossborder trafficking cases.
• Capacity Building
o Support the rollout of the Social Information Management System
(SIMS) as a data collection tool and ensure it meets data sharing and
case tracking needs;
o Assist the “1098 hotline” for victims of human trafficking to be more
responsive to victims and increase capacity to identify and serve
trafficking victims.
• Advocacy
o Support pending legal code amendments that align laws with the
Palermo Protocol;
o Ensure civil society organizations are adequately resourced to
provide needed victim services.
Objective 3 (Prosecution): The Government of Nepal, including law enforcement,
prosecutors and the judiciary, utilizes existing trafficking-specific legal frameworks
to identify child trafficking victims, investigate cases, and prosecute and convict
perpetrators of child trafficking in a child-friendly, victim-centered, and traumainformed manner.
Illustrative Activities:
• Training and Curriculum Development
o Comprehensive (basic and advanced) training for justice-sector
actors on the human trafficking law and how to utilize it during
investigations, prosecutions, and convictions;
o Comprehensive (basic and advanced) training for justice sector actors
on victim-centered, trauma-informed, and child-friendly practices;
o Training for law enforcement entities on trauma-informed and childfriendly techniques for gathering evidence and testimony from
survivors of child trafficking;
o Victim-centered training in the National Police Academy to combat
human trafficking;
o Curriculum for the National Judicial Academy focused on human
trafficking laws, trauma-informed and child friendly practices, in
coordination with NGOs
o Methods to investigate and monitor online violence and cybercrimes.
• Standard Operating Procedures
o Child-friendly procedures for accompaniment of child trafficking
victims and witnesses before the courts;
o Child interview SOPs for police investigators and MoWCSC social
workers;
o Nationwide SOPs on victim identification, referral, and case
management;
o Support airport and border officers with resources for improved
screening tools.
• Establish New Practices
o Digitized Court or “E-court” using video conferencing or video
testimony likely connected with protection homes to support
criminal cases;
o Victim service units and victim-friendly court environments within
the Supreme court and District courts;
o Child-friendly spaces in local police offices, and/or other relevant
locations;
o Create child-friendly space guidelines that are adopted and used to
train relevant staff;
o Promote creation of a secure network and data collection system for
criminal justice actors to share case details.
• Advocacy
o Expand judges’ use of current legal frameworks with innovative
prosecution techniques such as victim compensation;
o Promote appointment of an Office of the Special Rapporteur for
Human Trafficking within the National Human Rights Council;
o Create a cybercrime law from current cybercrime policy.
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Objective 4 (Partnership): The Government of Nepal addresses child trafficking in
a coordinated manner across all relevant ministries, local authorities and NGOs.
Illustrative Activities:
• Expand Alliances
o Engage with private sector actors to raise awareness and prevent
forced child labor in targeted industries;
o Engage telecommunications companies to prevent online sexual
exploitation of children;
o Encourage parliamentary involvement on child protection issues;
o Analyze the use of information technology to support child trafficking
prevention and protection.
• Information Sharing
o Encourage information sharing across different data management
systems, including the Missing Children and National Police
databases.
• National Frameworks
o Review and support the Master Plan on Child Labor;
o Support regional referral mechanisms and/or intergovernmental
MOUs on trafficking with neighboring countries in the region;
o Foster development and implementation of a National Action Plan.
• Advocacy
o Empower the National Coordination Committee on Human
Trafficking;
o Promote creation of a national budget line to combat child trafficking
to ensure programs and relevant ministries are properly funded;
o Facilitate sustainability planning to maintain CPC investments beyond
the end of the agreement.