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06KINSHASA208 2006-02-07 17:45 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Kinshasa
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071745Z Feb 06
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 KINSHASA 000208 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR AF/RSA-MARINDA HARPOLE AND G/TIP-EDWARD FLOOD 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM KWMN KCRM ASEC ELAB SMIG CG
SUBJECT: FY06 ESF ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT 
PROPOSAL: DRC 
 
REF: 05 STATE 226696 
 
1. (U) Per reftel, Embassy Kinshasa is submitting the 
following proposed project and 
requests funding from FY2006 ESF Anti-Trafficking in Persons 
funds: 
 
A. TITLE OF PROJECT 
 
Support to the Reintegration of Abductees and other Victims 
of Sexual Violence and Trafficking. 
 
B.  NAME OF RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION/GOVERNMENT AGENCY 
 
USAID will disburse to the International Rescue Committee 
and/or COOPI. 
 
C.  DURATION OF PROJECT 
 
24 months (to be incrementally funded with 2007 TIP funds). 
This is a continuation of TIP and Victims of Torture Fund 
activities that support release and reintegration of 
abductees and victims of torture.  The research component of 
the project (to increase the ability of NGOs and UN agencies 
to gain access to trafficking victims and facilitate their 
release and reintegration) has just begun.  Current research 
activities will lend to improving the effectiveness of 
activities proposed below. 
 
D. DESCRIPTION 
 
The goal of this project is to ensure the safe reintegration 
of women and girls, most of whom are trafficking victims, and 
some of whom were formerly child prostitutes, to their 
communities in Maniema, South Kivu, North Kivu, and Ituri and 
to prevent further abduction, trafficking, and sexual 
violence.  This program will build on the current TIP program 
which is currently informing the development of these 
wider-scale reintegration programs for abductees, in parallel 
to the national Disarmament, Demobilization, and 
Reintegration (DDR) Program. Unless the special needs of 
abductees, including many girls under the age of 18 are 
addressed, they risk remaining trafficking victims who are 
forced, in order to survive, to either turn to prostitution 
or continue to live with the soldiers who abducted them. 
 
Objective: Abductees and other victims of sexual violence and 
trafficking are identified and assisted with psychosocial 
support and reintegration into their communities or 
alternative communities. 
 
Activities: 
 
Sensitize and inform the communities through community 
meetings and radio programs on abduction and sexual violence 
and on services available to them. 
 
Gain access to militia, ex-militia, and FARDC troops in order 
to better understand the situation and location of girls who 
are or were formerly associated with armed groups and to 
organize sensitization sessions on sexual violence and on 
HIV-AIDS. 
 
In parallel to the DDR process, track girl abductees to 
ensure that they are not left behind and to ensure that they 
have choices to return to their communities or receive 
alternative reintegration assistance. 
 
Refer these girls to the transit center and the psychosocial 
support center in Bunia, Kpandroma, and other locations as 
appropriate. 
 
Ensure medical and surgical referral to girl survivors of 
abduction and to other survivors of sexual violence through 
other partners. 
 
Provide psychosocial support, including life skills training 
to girl abductees and to other vulnerable girls and women 
within the USAID-supported projects. 
 
Referral to other sexual violence projects for socioeconomic 
reintegration of these girls and women in their communities 
or in alternative communities through: professional skills 
training; group-based or individual income generating 
activities; and the creation and/or the reinforcement of 
community-based female support groups. 
 
Reinforce the capacity of these groups and of local groups 
who are working with female survivors of abduction and other 
sexual violence by increasing their skills to investigate, 
counsel, and report on trafficking in persons. 
 
Sensitize the communities at all levels on the reintegration 
of these girls, support and/or stimulate community efforts 
toward social reintegration and prevention of abduction, and 
organize sensitization sessions on sexual violence and on 
HIV-AIDS. 
 
Maintain a database of abductees and of other vulnerable 
girls and women to track their reintegration. 
To maximize impact, USAID/DRC will integrate activities 
regarding trafficking in persons with holistic activities for 
survivors of rape and sexual violence in eastern DRC in 
addition to activities within all five of its Strategic 
Objectives in the health, democracy/governance, livelihoods, 
education, and reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR).  TIP 
funds will link directly to ongoing Victims of Torture-funded 
activities to ensure access to basic medical, psychosocial, 
judicial, and reinsertion services for victims of abduction 
and sexual violence through local NGOs with community-based 
activities. 
E.  JUSTIFICATION 
 
Armed conflict, widespread sexual violence, and 
socio-economic collapse have created an environment conducive 
to trafficking in people in the DRC.  According to the 
Department of State, the DRC has been a source country for 
trafficked persons.  Over the past nine years rebel forces 
and militias have abducted and forcibly recruited Congolese 
men, women, and children to serve as forced laborers, 
porters, combatants, and sex slaves in areas of the country 
under their control.  Although the DRC is beginning a 
country-wide Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration 
(DDR) program, the abductees in the armed groups have been 
excluded from the DDR process and risk remaining trafficking 
victims because they are either 1) left behind in the 
reintegration program and forced to turn to prostitution to 
survive or 2) continue to live as captives of soldiers in the 
integrated national army. 
 
Victims have been violently abused, raped, and traumatized by 
nearly all of the armies, militias, and gangs implicated in 
the conflict.  Most of these crimes have been committed in 
'front line' areas, especially in the eastern provinces of 
North and South Kivu, Maniema, northern Katanga, eastern 
Oriental, and in the northwestern province of Equateur. 
Prevention of sexual violence and trafficking in persons is 
closely linked to a successful political transition and DDR 
process.  When the national political transition began in 
June 2003, cases of rape, violence, and abduction diminished 
noticeably as expectations were high that law and order would 
be restored.  By November and December, however, various 
armed groups resumed attacks.  Women who had felt safe enough 
to go back to work in agricultural fields (often with their 
children) were again victimized and abducted.  Delays in the 
DDR process and ongoing pockets of fighting in the eastern 
provinces have thus led to retargeting of civilians. 
 
While cases begin to rise once again, there has been another 
surge in the number of cases of rape and abduction that are 
being reported, often by the national army (FARDC).  It is 
essential to support the return and reintegration of 
abductees as the national DDR program gets underway during 
this crucial and fragile transition period.  Certain 
practices common in eastern DRC, including the abduction of 
women for use as sex slaves, have left a profound impact on 
the mental and physical well-being of women, their families, 
and their communities.  It has also increased the survivor's 
risk of having unwanted pregnancies and being exposed to 
sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, due to the fact 
that barrier protection is never used. 
 
Despite the frequent nature of these atrocities, trafficking 
in persons continues to be perpetrated with little support 
for victims.  The national DDR program targets military men 
and child soldiers but does not address the needs of 
dependents, many of whom are abductees and have since had 
children.  It is essential that a parallel process to address 
the specific concerns of dependents takes place to ensure 
that they are able to reintegrate and are not left behind. 
 
Due to a lack of resources, the government is able to mount 
only a few victim protection efforts, instead relying heavily 
on non-governmental and international organizations.  To 
date, support from international agencies for 
anti-trafficking programs has been minimal and no donors 
(with the exception of the US government through TIP) are 
currently addressing the problem of dependents and abductees 
in the DDR process, particularly during disarmament and 
demobilization.  The use of sexual violence in Congo's war 
and the difficulty that Congolese non-governmental 
organizations (NGOs) have faced in drawing attention and 
putting an end to these atrocities can be attributed to 
several factors: 
 
1) The dramatic increase in the number of untrained, poorly 
paid, and barely supervised combatants in the DRC, coupled 
with few alternatives to carrying arms. 
2) Many police and military, who should play a key role in 
ensuring the security of the population, are perpetrators of 
these sexually-based violent crimes. 
3) Inaccessibility to abductees:  the context in which sexual 
violence and abduction have occurred in the DRC makes it 
difficult to investigate or ensure effective action.  These 
acts often occur in very remote, extremely insecure regions 
of the country.  However, the DDR process is now beginning to 
provide a forum for accessing these victims where the 
initiative to do so is taken. 
With funds from the Victims of Torture Fund since 2002 and 
some funds from TIP in 2004, USAID/DRC has provided 
well-received medical, psychosocial, judicial, and 
socioeconomic support to over 39,000 survivors of sexual 
violence and trafficking.  With FY 2005 TIP funds these 
activities were expanded to address the specific needs of 
women and girls who were abducted by armed groups.  This 
program searches out abductees and ensures reintegration into 
their communities.  Since a large part of the TIP activities 
focuses on research and awareness raising to gain access to 
abductees, the next larger step needs to be taken to 
implement recommendations from the research phase. 
 
PROJECT DESCRIPTION 
 
F.  PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 
 
Objective: Abductees and other victims of sexual violence and 
trafficking are identified and assisted with psychosocial 
support and reintegration into their communities or 
alternative communities. 
 
Indicator: Number of dependents including abductees - Target 
2006: 600    Target 2007: 400    TOTAL: 1000 
 
Indicator: Number of dependents and abductees who are tracked 
and assisted through the DDR process with food, shelter, 
basic supplies, and access to health care - Target 2006: 500 
  Target 2007: 400    TOTAL: 900 
 
Indicator: Number of dependents who are assisted to 
reintegrate into their former communities or alternative 
communities - Target 2006: 500    Target 2007: 400    TOTAL: 
900 
 
G.  EVALUATION PLAN 
 
USAID Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, along with 
Political Section of Embassy Kinshasa, will provide the AF 
Bureau and G/TIP with semi-annual updates. In addition, IRC 
and COOPI will provide USAID with quarterly updates.  Also, 
USAID/DRC is in the process of developing an on-line M&E 
database for streamlining data collection across all partners 
throughout the country. 
 
H.  BUDGET BREAKOUT 
 
Personnel: 300,000 
Transport: 60,000 
Equipment: 30,000 
Materials/Supplies: 50,000 
Training: 20,000 
Outreach: 30,000 
Communications: 10,000 
TOTAL: $500,000 
 
I.  GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTIONS 
 
The national DDR commission (CONADER) will help develop the 
human rights/anti-trafficking training program, which will be 
conducted at already existing demobilization centers and 
Centres de Brassage. 
 
J.  PROPOSED FUNDING MECHANISM 
 
Grant to NGO 
 
K.  EMBASSY POINT OF CONTACT: 
 
Tracy Naber (NaberTJ@state.gov IVG: 934-2620) 
MEECE