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What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - By providing a status of protected citizenship for trafficked persons the state is now obliged to further protect them and their families.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - This is an innovative strategy because it is rare that trafficked persons are legally recognized both as victims of a crime and also victims of failure of the state in establishing and maintaining mechanisms to control trafficking and the oppressive economic and labor systems that is flourishing. Protected citizenship status must include barrier free access to welfare benefits, legal redress for victims and their families and stricter punishments for trafficker. By providing a status of protected citizenship for trafficked persons the state is now obliged to acknowledge a failure of its structures and take responsibility to further protect and provide a better quality of life for them and their families.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - Traffickers operate on the vulnerability of their victims before trafficking them and their voiceless-ness after being trafficked. An existing framework for protected status for trafficked persons will change the power balance completely. A combination of regional coalitions of nations and organizations striving to abide by this agenda can most effectively influence and evolve policies to correspond to this scheme.
How do you plan to grow your innovation? - Replication of this model needs enhancement and retouching of the already existing and functioning systems in each country, such as systems for protection of vulnerable populations such as the minorities, and persons and communities with special needs. With increased mobilization and coordination between countries within the existing international and regional forums, replication of this model is very much possible. The NGOs can play a very important role in enabling this replication because of their capacities, innovativeness, flexibility and close proximity to the victims of human trafficking. Present technological advancement, information sharing and connectivity will also enable replication.
Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them? - This field has not been completed. (166 words or less)
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - The most prominent systemic change this innovation brings is the enhanced sense of responsibility on states.
How many people have you served or plan to serve? - This field has not been completed. (166 words or less)
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Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation? - By providing a status of protected citizenship for trafficked persons the state is now obliged to acknowledge a failure of its structures and and take responsibility to further protect and provide a better quality of life for them and their families.
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Smita E. Dewan
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Protected Citizenship Status for Trafficked Persons
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Hello Smita,
We would love to learn more about the work that you are doing. Could you please complete the entry form to include information on your finances, partnerships, impact, origin and bio? Thank you.
Dana Frasz
Ashoka's Changemakers