Preventing conflict-driven trafficking in persons and ensuring a protection-sensitive approach across the Levant (ATIP-LEVANT)

International Organization for Migration (IOM) is working to: 1) Enact a regional prevention strategy to implement a regional rapid assistance fund and educate highly mobile crisis-affected populations through regional dialogue sessions, among national, local, cultural, and religious leaders, which will share best practices on trafficking prevention, prosecution, and protection efforts in times of crisis; 2) Facilitate targeted local community dialogue sessions in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey with at-risk, crisis-affected populations; and 3) Ensure that first responders and front-line actors (civil society/humanitarian/governmental) are equipped to identify and respond to trafficking in persons as well as refer and/or provide emergency protection.

IOM will also provide direct protection assistance to trafficked or at-risk populations, especially in crisis-specific environments where situations may require life-saving interventions. As part of this regional project, IOM will provide direct assistance to victims of trafficking in Syria.