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Open World Leadership Program
Since 2002, TraCCC has been hosting high-level delegations of emerging
government, business, NGO and academic leaders from the Russian Federation
as part of the U.S.Congress-sponsored Open World Leadership Program (www.openworld.gov).
TraCCC has hosted delegations on two major Open World themes:
economic development, with a particular focus on the challenges posed by
organized crime and corruption in this field, and the pressing issue of
human trafficking. TraCCC has received a 2007 grant to host delegations on the topic of "U.S. Methods to Combat Human Trafficking and Assist its Victims".
Open World Anti-Trafficking Program
Since 2006, TraCCC has hosted delegations of emerging Russian
leaders in the framework of the Open World Leadership Program
on the theme of “Anti-Trafficking Initiatives.” The program
participants meet with Federal-level agencies and legislative entities,
law enforcement
officials, scholars, and non-governmental organizations that
work to investigate, prosecute, and curtail human trafficking as well as
provide
assistance to victims.
Each of TraCCC’s five professional program days is dedicated
to meeting with professionals in each of the following fields:
U.S. Legislative
Response to Human Trafficking, U.S. Government Programs to Combat
Human Trafficking, Law Enforcement Efforts to Combat Human
Trafficking, Current
Research into Human Trafficking Crimes, and NGO Programs to Combat
Human Trafficking and Assist Victims.
Agencies and individuals visited during TraCCC's 2006 anti-trafficking program include:
Federal Agencies (Executive Branch)
• U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of Women in
Development: http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/
• U.S. Department of State, The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking
in Persons (G/TIP): http://www.state.gov/g/tip/
• U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Trafficking
in Persons and Worker Exploitation Task Force: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/tpwetf.htm
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Administration
for Children and Families: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
• The Office of Congressman Joe Pitts, Co-Author of the Victims
of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act and the Trafficking
Victims Protection Reauthorization Act: http://www.house.gov/pitts/
• The United States Helsinki Commission (the Commission on Security
and Cooperation in Europe): http://www.csce.gov/
Non-governmental Organizations
• The Protection Project at SAIS , Johns Hopkins University: http://www.sais-jhu.edu/centers/fpi/
• Project Hope International: http://phi-ngo.org/
• Shared Hope International: http://www.sharedhope.org/
• The Polaris Project: http://www.polarisproject.org/polarisproject/
• The International Organization for Migration (IOM): http://www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp
• The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC): http://www.missingkids.com/
• The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Migration and Refugee
Services: http://www.usccb.org/mrs/
• Ayuda, Inc.: http://www.ayudainc.org/pages/page.cfm?id=1
Open World Economic Development Program
From 2002-2005, TraCCC hosted Open World Leadership Program groups from Russia
under the theme of “economic development”, with a focus on how organized
crime and corruption act as impediments to a country’s economic development.
TraCCC Open World Program participants spent nine days in Washington, D.C. learning
about U.S. methods of achieving economic development at the local, county, state
and national levels. Meetings included site visits with the delegates' counterparts
at the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank, the U.S. Government
Accountability Office, the U.S. Exim Bank, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency,
the Washington, DC Office of Planning and Development, Maryland state government,
and local business incubators.
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