EVALUATION BRIEF - TRACK4TIP - TRANSFORMING ALERTS INTO CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESPONSES TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

In Phase 1 the project took Donor: Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons of place in 8 countries (Aruba, Brazil, Colombia, Curaçao, Dominican Rep., the US Department of State (US Ecuador, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago) and in Phase 2 it added Panama and discontinued Curaçao activities. [...] The most challenging outcomes and results were the lack of engagement in one beneficiary country and the impossibility of the constitution of a Regional Task Force. [...] It is recommended to include gender and the design of regional projects needs to be realistic, and that the inclusion indicators in the design of premises upon which goals are based need to be reassessed at the interventions and to do more to include design phase –i.e., addressing the region as a whole underestimated certain specific vulnerable groups that are substantive differences between count. [...] emphasized as a good practice that increased the flexibility of the project to the needs and priorities of each partner country without sacrificing its overall objective and goals. [...] METHODOLOGY This independent evaluation was developed following the norms and standards of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) and abiding to UNEG’s ethical guidelines and code of conduct.