2. SITUATION ANALYSIS 2.1 Overview of Lessons Learned from ARTIP The main sources of documented lessons learned from ARTIP are the ARTIP Activity Completion Report (ACR), the ARTIP Independent Completion Report (ICR), the ARTIP Transition Technical Discussion Paper, and the AAPTIP Concept Note. These documents primarily reflect the lessons learned by the ARTIP implementation team. Other lessons have been garnered from interviews with stakeholders from the criminal justice sector officials of Partner Countries and those familiar with ARTIP. Key lessons that have informed and shaped this design are summarised below but are more fully explored along with their implications in Annex J: There is strong, high level support for continued Australian engagement in the criminal justice sector from ASEAN, regional anti-trafficking stakeholders, and Partner Countries. But the Australian government needs to re-take a leadership role in policy dialogue and not outsource that responsibility to a managing contractor. Sustainability needs to be built into program systems and approaches from the onset. Greater local control of planning directions and resource allocation has the potential to yield greater ownership and sustainable impact. Monitoring and evaluation for a project like AAPTIP is complex and there are no ready-made solutions. Nevertheless, a guiding principle derived from past experience on ARTIP is that for the system to be effective it must be practical and cost effective to implement and the information it generates must be based on user defined needs. An appropriate balance of quantitative and qualitative data and information is necessary, as is a strengthened evidence base is important to inform policy and strategic decisions relevant to trafficking at national and regional levels. Victim-centricity, gender sensitivity and human rights responsiveness need to be factoring in as centre-pieces of any future program and not merely as training programs. Many people who are trafficked in the ASEAN region are trafficked for the purpose of forced labour. Noting the contributions of other projects and stakeholders, developing the capacity of police to investigate crimes by those that arrange employment abroad for migrant workers (including capacity for financial investigations), should be addressed by AAPTIP. Different capacity building approaches are required particularly a move away from a predominantly training oriented implementation approach. There is a need to move any new program upstream to develop contextually relevant solutions to problems. There is a need to strengthen the evidence base used to inform policy and strategic decisions both within the program and within Partner Countries. A new program –
2. SITUATION ANALYSIS 2.1 Overview of Lessons Learned from ARTIP The main sources of documented lessons learned from ARTIP are the ARTIP Activity Completion Report (ACR), the ARTIP Independent Completion Report (ICR), the ARTIP Transition Technical Discussion Paper, and the AAPTIP Concept Note. These documents primarily reflect the lessons learned by the ARTIP implementation team. Other lessons have been garnered from interviews with stakeholders from the criminal justice sector officials of Partner Countries and those familiar with ARTIP. Key lessons that have informed and shaped this design are summarised below but are more fully explored along with their implications in Annex J: There is strong, high level support for continued Australian engagement in the criminal justice sector from ASEAN, regional anti-trafficking stakeholders, and Partner Countries. But the Australian government needs to re-take a leadership role in policy dialogue and not outsource that responsibility to a managing contractor. Sustainability needs to be built into program systems and approaches from the onset. Greater local control of planning directions and resource allocation has the potential to yield greater ownership and sustainable impact. Monitoring and evaluation for a project like AAPTIP is complex and there are no ready-made solutions. Nevertheless, a guiding principle derived from past experience on ARTIP is that for the system to be effective it must be practical and cost effective to implement and the information it generates must be based on user defined needs. An appropriate balance of quantitative and qualitative data and information is necessary, as is a strengthened evidence base is important to inform policy and strategic decisions relevant to trafficking at national and regional levels. Victim-centricity, gender sensitivity and human rights responsiveness need to be factoring in as centre-pieces of any future program and not merely as training programs. Many people who are trafficked in the ASEAN region are trafficked for the purpose of forced labour. Noting the contributions of other projects and stakeholders, developing the capacity of police to investigate crimes by those that arrange employment abroad for migrant workers (including capacity for financial investigations), should be addressed by AAPTIP. Different capacity building approaches are required particularly a move away from a predominantly training oriented implementation approach. There is a need to move any new program upstream to develop contextually relevant solutions to problems. There is a need to strengthen the evidence base used to inform policy and strategic decisions – both within the program and within Partner Countries. A new program
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