Two IOM counter trafficking experts will arrive in Yemen this week
to work with the government to build its capacity to combat human
trafficking and to develop return and reintegration schemes for
child victims.

One expert will conduct a feasibility study in the governorates
of Hajja, Al Mahweet and Hodeida to identify appropriate return and
reintegration schemes for child victims of trafficking in their
home communities.

The other expert will facilitate the proceedings of a newly
formed National Inter-Ministerial Committee Against Child
Trafficking and will support the local authorities in developing a
national plan action against child trafficking.

The initiative, funded by UNICEF and in close collaboration with
the Yemeni Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, is part of a
one-year IOM “National Capacity Building Programme to Counter
Child Trafficking”  in Yemen.

The project will also work to improve child reception centers;
empower local officials in the management of care centers; develop
standard shelter guidelines and raise awareness of child
trafficking at both governorate and national levels.

For more information on the project, please contact:

Ricardo Cordero

IOM Cairo

Email: "mailto:MRFCairo@iom.int">MRFCairo@iom.int