PROJECT PROPOSAL

21 January 2016

I. Title : ALTERNATIVE PARENTAL CARE SEMINAR AND

ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN

II. Date : 09 February 2016

III. Venue : Umingan Sports Complex Gymnasium

IV. Participants :

Participants No. of Participants

DepEd (Teachers & Principals) 20
Day Care Workers of Umingan 49
WCPD of PNP Umingan 5
Barangay Health Workers 18
Punong Barangays 58
DSWD staffs, MSWD and Visitors 25
Total 175

V. Rationale :

Under the Philippine law, the State shall provide alternative protection and
assistance through foster care or adoption for every child who is a foundling,
neglected, orphaned, or abandoned. The best interests of the child shall be the
paramount consideration in all matters relating to his care, custody and adoption, in
accordance with Philippine laws, the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights
of the Child, UN Declaration on Social and Legal Principles Relating to the Protection
and Welfare of Children with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption,
Nationally and Internationally, and the Hague Convention on the Protection of
Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption.

An advocacy to promote the alternative parental care and child placement is

important to promote the children’s right to have a home and family to protect them.

Meanwhile, our country recognized as a source and, to a much lesser extent, a

destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are subjected to
sex trafficking and forced labor is alarming and should be given with utmost priority.
Traffickers in partnership with organized crime syndicates and complicit law
enforcement officers regularly operate through fraudulent recruitment agencies and
practices to traffic migrants. Traffickers use local recruiters sent to villages and
urban neighborhoods to recruit family and friends, often masquerading as
representatives of government-registered employment agencies. These fraudulent
recruitment practices and the institutionalized practice of paying recruitment fees
often leave workers vulnerable to forced labor, debt bondage, and commercial sexual
exploitation. There were reports in 2010 that illicit recruiters increased their use of

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 student, intern, and exchange program visas to circumvent the Philippines
government and receiving countries’ regulatory frameworks for foreign workers.

R.A. 9208, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, expanded by R.A. 10634, made
the Philippines one of the few Asian countries in Asia that have enacted an anti-
trafficking legislation. It institutes policies to eliminate and punish human
trafficking, especially women and children, establishing the necessary institutional
mechanisms for the protection and support of trafficked persons. It aims "to
promote human dignity, protect the people from any threat of violence and
exploitation, and mitigate pressures for involuntary migration and servitude of
persons, not only to support trafficked persons but more importantly, to ensure
their recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration into the mainstream of society."

The law establishes an Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) composed

of government agencies, non-government organizations and other civic
organizations for the effective formulation of a comprehensive and integrated
program to prevent and suppress the trafficking in persons.

The laws of Anti-Human Trafficking and Alternative Parental care should be

promoted in order to encourage more advocates and volunteers to engage in the
implementation of the program such as foster and adoptive families to care for
disadvantaged children and Barangay Volunteers Against Trafficking to protect
people to become victims of trafficking.

Objectives:

General objective: To advocate laws and programs under Alternative Parental Care
and Anti-Human Trafficking.

Specific objective:

1. To encourage foster and adoptive families.

2. To form Barangay Volunteers Against Trafficking (BVAT) in the municipality.
3. To initiate and strengthen collaboration of sectors of Education, Police, the Local
Government Unit specifically the barangay and the DSWD.

VI. Brief Description of the Project:

The ALTERNATIVE PARENTAL CARE SEMINAR AND ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING

ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN is a one day activity that aims to raise awareness about the
alternative parental care program such as the foster care and domestic adoption as
well as the Anti-Human Trafficking Advocacy Campaign to form volunteers in the
barangays.

This activity will be facilitated by the DSWD Field Office I, City of San Fernando, La
Union together with the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Unit of Umingan,
Pangasinan. The Learning Service Providers will come from the experts of DSWD
FOI who will introduce the laws and programs through lectures and open forum.

VII. Budgetary Requirement:

Hereunder are the projected expenses to be incurred with the said activity, to wit:

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 Quantity Particulars Amount Total
Food Accommodation
175 pax Refreshments for the participants 50.00 8,750.00
25 pax Lunch DSWD Staffs and Visitors 70.00 1,750.00
Token for the LSPs and Participants
10 pcs. Token – Veggie Noodles Otop for LSPs 80.00 800.00
10 pcs. Certificate Holder 50.00 500.00
175 pcs. Certificates for participants 10.00 1,750.00
10 pcs. Certificate for LSPs 20.00 200.00
Physical Arrangements
1 pc. Tarpaulin 5x6 feet 450.00 450.00
1 Sound System 2,000.00 2,000.00
Total Php 16,200.00

VIII. Evaluation and Recommendation:

The advocacy campaign for Alternative Parental Care and Anti-Human Trafficking is
very crucial and important in order to promote awareness to the townspeople of
Umingan and to form advocates and volunteers in every barangay to uphold the
programs regarding trafficking, foster care and adoption.

Based on the aforementioned, the undersigned respectfully recommends the

approval of the ALTERNATIVE PARENTAL CARE SEMINAR AND ANTI-HUMAN
TRAFFICKING ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN. Accordingly, the undersigned further
request for the release of SIXTEEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED PESOS ONLY (Php
16,200.00) under the Other Services (OS) Fund for the implementation of this
proposal.

Prepared by:

BAYANI P. MANAS, RSW

SWO II

Recommending Approval:

ELMA C. BEQUIO, RSW

MSWDO

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