Awareness Raising and Capacity building activities against human trafficking and migrant smuggling during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Nicaragua
IOM Nicaragua adapted its intervention activities against human trafficking and migrant smuggling to the new trends of the crime provoke by the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The mission also expanded its response and adapted the training modalities.
Beneficiaries
Implementing partners, civil society, returning migrants, stranded migrants, and extra-regional migrants in Nicaragua.
Main Actions
- Adapting the courses to the new trends of human trafficking and migrant smuggling.
- Proactive response to digital and technological gaps:
- Acquiring mobile data packages for the students
- Conducting synchronous sessions to instruct beneficiaries on the use of the platforms.
- Conducted an assessment to adapt the exiting awareness raising campaign.
- Delivery of kits containing health products to groups of returning migrants, migrants in transit and implementation partners.
Recommendations
- Preparing referral protocols for possible survivors, when conducting online settings.
- Adapting the trainings, communication campaigns and other activities conducted in online setting to the less common internet traffic hours.
- Updating the information to the scenarios caused by the COVID-19 to provide a more efficient response.
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