In 2022, Rapid Asia conducted the End-line Evaluation for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Thailand Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) project with the lead implementing partner, Winrock International.
As part of the End-line evaluation, Rapid Asia prepared the Learning Paper Series. This paper focuses on the USAID Thailand CTIP project’s activities focused on strengthening protection systems, specifically the strengthening of Multi-disciplinary Teams (MDTs), through two key learning questions:
“In what ways does the strengthening of Thailand’s MDTs improve the quality, availability, and accessibility of protection services in the country?”
“How do we increase safe and voluntary survivor identification in ways that ensure access to services and protection of survivor’s rights?”
This paper provides an answer to the learning question in detail through an exploration of five key learnings:
- Lessons learned workshops significantly complement the technical capacity-building activities of MDT members to provide quality services.
- Bureaucratic and budgetary constraints limit the potential impact of MDTs in strengthening protection systems.
- The current model of survivor identification is too reactive and conditional to effectively provide a safe channel for potential victims of trafficking.
- Civil society and government collaboration is a key ingredient for building enabling environments for strengthening MDTs.
- There is a lack of standardized training for MDT members, interpreters, and case managers
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