The project has three levels of intervention

• Protection and prevention - Reducing socio-economic vulnerability of the poorest children and youth by improving their access to quality education, and livelihood options, by strengthening their powers in decision making, and by working to mobilize families, communities, and local authorities to support children’s rights to protection.
• Psychosocial rehabilitation - Develop necessary structures; improve the conditions for care of marginalized children or children who are survivors of exploitation and meeting their basic needs such as shelter, physical and emotional well-being, education, training and economic reintegration.
• National and regional cooperation - Promote coordination and consistency in action amongst participants in the country and in the South Asian region through human and technical support to the NGOs who specialize in these issues, bringing them together in a consortium to achieve lasting social and economic rehabilitation of children and youngsters.
  
  

1. 1. Lobbying and setting up coordination with institutional stakeholders such as police, border security agencies, concerned ministries and judiciary.
2. Broad community education and awareness raising campaigns including street theatre (TfD), radio, television, film and print media.
3. Capacity building of private and public sector participants, village committees, religious leaders, teachers, travel agents, media, fishermen’s unions, doctors, lawyers, and other community groups in setting up activities for prevention, education, protection, and rehabilitation,
4. Training on counselling and psychosocial rehabilitation for all kind of secondary caregivers
5. Initiation of the standardisation of methods regarding secondary care-giving.
6. Initiation of an extensive outreach program in different cities to protect street children from exploitation.
7. Creation of drop-in centres for street children in various cities providing them basic needs such as hygiene, food and cloths as well as psychosocial counselling, legal assistance, recreation and life skilled based education.
8. Creation of Non-Formal Education (NFE) centre in various cities for street living and street working children who are unable to reintegrate with formal education system.\
9. Creation of non-formal education schools for children’s of prostitutes who are denied their right to identity documents and consequently to education due to absence of father.
10. Reunification of run-away children and adolescents with their families.
11. Creation of rehabilitation centres for street children especially repatriated victims and those who cannot be reunified with their families.
12. Rescue and rehabilitation of children trafficked as camel jockeys from Southern Punjab to Middle East through porous borders of the country and initiation of preventive measures to combat this particular trafficking,
13. Protection of children prone to sexual exploitation in deep-see fishing and awareness-raising amongst fishermen communities.
14. Job training for young victims rescued from situations of exploitation and assistance in creating economic alternatives through a micro-credit system.
15. Creation of a resource centre and setting up of consistent, coordinated methods at national and regional levels for psycho-social care, mental health, rescue, repatriation and reintegration

Project locations

A country-wide project            April 2006 – March 2009

AZAD Foundation, animated by numerous volunteers devoted to the street children establishes drop-in centre for street working & living girls and rehabilitation centre & night shelter for street living boys in Karachi. AZAD also establishes help desks for runaway children at entry points to the city.

PPA - Pakistan Paediatric Association, founded and animated by paediatricians, establishes a drop-in centre for working children vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation in the area with big concentration of workshops at Lahore.

PRWSWO working to combat trafficking of children from Southern Punjab as camel jockeys to Gulf states, establishes a child drop-in centre and NFE centres at Rahimyar Khan, raises awareness and rehabilitates repatriated children.

SACH, specialized in the psychosocial rehabilitation of sexual abuse and torture victims, establishes child protection and monitoring centre in Rawalpindi and Peshawar and a transit home at Islamabad.

SANJOG runs 4 child centres at Quetta to empower boys and girls (from religious and ethnic minorities), vulnerable to sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking. It also provides legal aid to victims of child abuse & exploitation through network of volunteer lawyers at Lahore, Karachi and Quetta.

SEHER, works in the most remote rural areas of Balochistan. The organization establishes centres in Quetta for boys victims of sexual abuse and exploitation and at Gwadar to protect boys & girls from trafficking and sexual exploitation.

SHEED a community based organisation is working for children’s right to education in the red light district of Lahore in order to stop second generation prostitution. It establishes two non-formal education (NFE) centres.

VISION establishes a child drop-in centre for street children in the proximity of Data Darbar and Badami Bagh Bus Station of Lahore. The organization has exhaustive outreach program.

Working Group against Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation is a group of leading NGOs working in the field of child protection. Some of its members are direct implementing partners of Imtizaj (PPA & Sach) whereas some others are indirect implementing partners like SAHIL, ROZAN, Save the Children Sweden and Save the Children UK.