ASEAN-Australia Counter-Trafficking

The Managing Contractor will provide technical, managerial and administrative resources to deliver the ASEAN-Australia Counter-Trafficking program.

The goal of the ASEAN-Australia Counter-Trafficking program is ‘to contribute to ASEAN Member States having effective justice systems that provide just punishment of traffickers and protect the human rights of victims’.

The program’s end of program outcomes are:

• ASEAN's planning, monitoring and reporting of ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (ACTIP) implementation is increasingly effective and advances the protection of human rights;

• ASEAN Member State criminal justice and related state agencies are increasingly capable of fulfilling their ACTIP obligations, in particular, those that uphold victim rights, and

• ASEAN Member State criminal justice and related state agencies’ policies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and better aligned with ACTIP, especially in connection to victim rights obligations.

Services to be provided by the Contractor to support the ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking program include:

• Technical assistance for national-level, international cross-border and regional-level capacity development;

• Facilitation of policy dialogue between justice officials and other stakeholders, including through innovative approaches to participation and deliberation; and

• Managerial and administrative functions to support this work.