Learn how Visayan Forum integrates the use of Office 2010 in their work.

1. Ma. Cecilia Flores-Oebanda
President and Executive Director
Visayan Forum Foundation

2. •11 Regional offices
•2O Cities/Provinces Project
areas

3. Human Trafficking
 While slavery has been legally
abolished all over the world, thousands
of people live in slave-like conditions
because of human trafficking.
 Human trafficking is a serious crime, a
threat to every society, especially in
Third World countries

4. Human Trafficking
 Human trafficking is the illegal trade in
human beings for the purposes of
exploitation, prostitution, forced labor:
a modern-day form of slavery.
 It is the fastest growing criminal industry in
the world, and tied with the illegal arms
industry as the second largest, after the
drug-trade

5. Human Trafficking
 Next to trafficking of money, drugs, and guns,
trafficking in persons is among the most
profitable underground business worldwide
 US$ 31.6 billion are estimated to be the annual
profits from the exploitation (Patrick Besler,
2005)
 Trafficking is a crime that transcended borders
and does not care about age, gender or race of
victims.

6. Global Snapshot
12.3 million adults and children are in
forced labor (including sexual
exploitation) bonded labor , and forced
prostitution around the world; with 2.5
million as a result of trafficking; and over
50% in Asia and the Pacific
(ILO, 2005 Global Report on Forced Labour)

7. The US Trafficking in Persons
Report
An annual report submitted to
the US Congress on the foreign
governments’ efforts to
eliminate severe forms of
human trafficking

8. Philippine Tier Standing Record

9. Why Philippines is in the Tier 2
Watch list ?
•RP does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of
trafficking
•RP has never convicted any offenders of labor trafficking
•Government did not show evidence of significant progress in convicting
trafficking offenders ( 380 pending & only 18 conviction)
•Need serious effort to address the significant level of corruption that allows
human trafficking crimes to continue

10. The Philippines is a leading source of
migrant workers
 3rd of the top sending countries in the world
in terms of migration
 Remittances keep our economy afloat:
$16.4 billion, 12% higher than in 2007
 13% of the 9 million Filipinos working abroad
are professionals.

11. Making headways …
 December 2011, the Philippine President declared that Human
Trafficking is a priority issue of his administration. From 2003 to
2010 there were only 18 convictions but this total increased to 38
since the administration began.
 Numerous reforms have been introduced including revision of
line-agencies policies in order to prevent human trafficking
 The PPA and MIAA provided building space for Halfway houses
which operate in coordination with Task Forces
 VF and partners sited as an international best practice by the U.S.
State Department in its 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report.

12. VF anti-trafficking strategies
 Establish Community
Preventive mechanism and
programs
 Guard and Choke strategic
transit
 Mobilize multi-sectoral
partnerships (MSNAT)
 Providing services and
opportunities to trafficking
survivors and vulnerable
groups

13. FIVE PHASES OF TRAFFICKING
A person
is Withdrawal
recruited Period Phase Recovery
e.g. by and
or in being
escape, possible
moves transit exploited
agreement reintegration
away or outside
from intervention
home
13

14. step-
• Basic Orientation Life Skills • Communication &
Interpersonal Skills
Against human
trafficking and other Training • Critical Thinking &
vulnerabilities Decision Making Skills
•Self Management &
Coping Skills Information
Social Technology and
Entrepreneurship Other
•Job Preparation
•Enterprise Development
Technical Skills
• Microsoft Curriculum
• Vocational and
Technical Courses

15. How Office 2010 can help NGOs
work more effectively

16. Microsoft Office as a critical social
marketing tool
 Production of advocacy materials easier
because of the various desktop
publishing software
 Communication and networking via the
internet and Outlook is easier because
of the convenience in managing
contacts and information
 Trainings and orientations are easier
because of

17. Documentation of Trafficking Cases, Success
Stories, Good Practices through the use
Microsoft Word 2010

18. Microsoft Office and Information
Management
 Databasing and tracking of cases through
Excel.
 Microsoft Acess allows us to sort, analyze and
draw conclusions from data to aid
 Makes research easier and more efficient
because of the ease of sorting data.
 Databasing of partners, contacts and finances
 Word and Excel facilitate the creation of
proposals and making sure that reports are
backed by data

19. Data-basing of Trafficking Cases and Tracking of Survivors
through the use of Microsoft Access 2010

20. Thru VF-Microsoft step-UP Project which is a
Preventive and Protective Measure against
Human Trafficking, Office 2010:
 serves as a tool to empower migrant workers and vulnerable
groups, especially women and children by giving them
economic opportunities through I.T. skills trainings coupled
with Daily Living Skills and enterprise development trainings
 Hotspot communities are particularly targeted by the program.
It levels the playing field and gives vulnerable groups the
chance to catch up with the fast changing technology.
 Over 30% of STEP UP graduates have been gainfully employed

21. Contributes to the efficient
operations of Visayan Forum

22. This technology helps us in the WAR AGAINST HUMAN
TRAFFICKING (WAHT) campaigns which aims:
To create massive social awareness in the prevention of
trafficking in both the supply and demand side
To sustain public support and ownership among major
stakeholders, especially in the government , private sector
for policy development at the local and national level.
By streamlining VF operations, facilitating social marketing,
enabling communication, helping generate useful
information and empowering vulnerable communities

23. For more information about VF,
you may call + 63 2 709 0711/ 709-0573/911-3986
or visit our website
www.visayanforum.org