Croatia Counter-Trafficking Community Mobilization Project

 

Project Description

This project is focused on strengthening awareness on trafficking issues in Croatia that CARE is implementing in partnership with PETRA Network, an informal network of 11 Croatian NGOs active in anti-trafficking initiatives and with governmental institutions working with at-risk girls and women.

The goal of the projects is to increase the capacity of PETRA Network as a resource center and partner of choice in suppression of trafficking in Croatia and SEE region.

The project objectives are as follows:

1. To strengthen local partners ability to advocate and respond to trafficking issues, as a national resource center through increased sustainability and support to education, training and media campaigns;

2. To strengthen local GROs (PETRA Network) and further empower the women's groups in targeted communities to more effectively work on prevention of trafficking;

3. To increase the capacities and awareness of trafficking in people in the society through education and advocacy.

Location

Republic of Croatia

Partner Organisations

PETRA Network, informal network of eleven local women non-governmental organizations focused on prevention and supression of trafficking in Croatia and they are as follows:

Autonomous Women’s’ House, Zagreb; Center for Civil Society Development “Delfin”, Pakrac; Center for Women War Victims ROSA, Zagreb; Women’s House, Zagreb; SOS Call for Help, Virovitica; Association of Women, Vukovar; Organization for Integrity and Prosperity (OIP), Split; Association Brod,-Group for Women’s Human Rights, Slavonski Brod; Women’s Group Split, Split; Center for Civil Initiatives (CGI), Porec; Center for Mental Health and Human Rights, Zagreb.

Donor
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Duration:
August 2004 – December 2007