NEPAL: Specialized Training Manual on Psychosocial Counselling for Trafficked Youth (2002)

A training manual on psychosocial counselling for trafficked youth developed by the Center for Victims and Torture (CVICT) in Kathmandu. This manual was offered to social workers and counsellors who help the children in rehabilitation centres in South Asia as part of the Trafficking in Children South Asia Project (TICSA) project of the ILO’s International Programme on the elimination of Child Labour (IPEC).

The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) launched a Time-Bound Programme (TBP) together with the Government of Nepal in 2000 with special focus on bonded
Child labour, domestic child labour and child trafficking. The ILO IPEC project titled Trafficking in Children South Asia Project (TICSA), which forms part of TBP, provided technical assistance to prevent and withdraw/rehabilitate children from trafficking. Through the implementation of the project, it was recognized that these children need special attention and emotional support after the rescue/withdrawal.
Experiences in psychosocial counselling provided in shelter homes and transit homes for traumatized children in most South Asian countries have been limited and, in part, inconclusive. It is essential to provide adequate support to the target children. TICSA, therefore, supported the development of the present Specialized Training Manual on Psychosocial Counseling for Trafficked Youth by the Center for Victims and Torture (CVICT) in Kathmandu. This manual was offered to social workers and counsellors who help the children in rehabilitation centres in South Asia.