Partnership

The importance of partnerships cannot be overestimated in any meaningful intervention to address the challenges of trafficking in human beings. The 2013 Addendum to the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings: One Decade Later (PC.DEC/1107/Corr.1) introduced a new chapter on partnerships which calls for co-operation at all levels. Such co-operation can be based either on shared values and strategic goals, or on more focused and targeted tasks that address specific forms of exploitation and thus involve specific agencies and actors.

Partnership not only helps to build synergies and avoid duplication between actors, it also ensures that any initiative undertaken by a single actor has a multiplier effect across the entire partnership network. Partnership is key to everything the Office of Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB) undertakes; without partnership, large-scale initiatives like the Simulation-based trainings simply cannot succeed. Therefore, the OSR/CTHB believes in facilitating and maintaining partnerships both between and within participating States across the OSCE region and beyond.

The OSR/CTHB co-operates with national, international, private sector, and civil society partners, including through annual meetings of the National Anti-Trafficking Co-ordinators and Rapporteurs, its Alliance Expert Co-ordination Team and UN Inter-Agency Co-ordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons, to strengthen synergies, avoid overlap and facilitate the exchange of expertise and best practices at the global and regional levels.

To ensure coherence of efforts, the OSR/CTHB also facilitates strategic co-ordination across relevant OSCE executive structures, including the institutions and field operations, leveraging the respective mandates, and added value of each structure.