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CETHCam Plans to Pilot CCM in Costal Provinces
The CCM project, funded by the European Union, is a national coordinated system for decentralized services to victims of exploitation and violence. The project has ten stages for assisting the victims: identifying victims, registration, social assessment, initial case-conference, the client case plan, referral, service provision, reintegration and follow-up, case closure, and evaluation. During the feasibility study at the end of June 2010, CETHCam Technical Coordination Unit (TCU) Coordinator, Mr. Chum Phally, met officials from the department of social affairs, veterans and youth rehabilitation. He also met representatives of nongovernmental organizations—including M'Lop Ta Pang, Action pour les Enfants (APLE), ADHOC, and Community Child Based Organization (CCBO)—all of which work in the field of human trafficking suppression, child protection and victim assistance. The meeting was aimed at garnering their support and cooperation once the project is ready to be piloted in their respective provinces and to get a better understanding of the situation of human trafficking, rape, and sexual/ labor exploitation in the provinces. CETHCam TCU Coordinator, Mr. Chum Phally, said the pilot project is expected to begin mid-August and has planned to set up its office at the Department of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation in Sihanouk.
Mr. Phally went on to say that the pilot will be more successful there since there are more NGOs and NGO shelters; adding that more and more victims have been trafficked through the province to Thailand and Vietnam. "There are NGO shelters like M'Lop Tapang that can easily be used as a CCM temporary referral case," Mr. Phally said. Government officials and the NGO representatives in the province have welcomed the project and look forward to it being piloted in their areas. "It's a good idea. It would be great to have such a project in this province. I look forward to seeing the progress and results of the study," said Mr. Eve Sao Sarin, Executive Director of M'Lop Tapang in Sihanouk.
He said, "In reality, the cases increase. Our province faces more difficulties and has more cases and we are working our best to address the problem. We are happy that COSECAM wants to open its office here. We have the same concerns as COSECAM—we want to have a shelter for victims in our province." Director of Kampot Provincial Department of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation, Mr. Tep Chhem, said the department would cooperate closely with CETHCam in addressing the problem. "If there is such cooperation, I will be happy and it will be a little easier for us. We have a lot of work and it’s great that you can come to help us," said Mr. Tep Chhem. Currently, CETHCam has been piloting the CCM project in two provinces. The first pilot began in January 2009 in Battambang and is being expanded to the neighboring provinces of Banteay Meanchey, Pailin and Pursat. The second pilot began in October 2009 in Svay Rieng province, which borders Vietnam, and the project is going to be expanded to its neighboring provinces as well. |
CETHCam is conducting a feasibility study for the pilot of its Coordinated Case Management (CCM) project in Cambodia's coastal province of Sihanouk, while looking at the possibility of expanding it to the following three provinces of Koh Kong Kampot and Kep.
He also said CETHCam chose to pilot the CCM in Sihanouk due to its geographical location, the presence of the Provincial Committee to Lead the Suppression of Human Trafficking, Smuggling, Labor Exploitation and Sexual Exploitation in Women and Children, and the prevalence of human trafficking, rape, and sexual/labor exploitation. 
The department Director, Mr. Sarin, said the province is facing constantly increasing problems concerning rape and trafficking. Phone: (855) 23 224 801 / 993 675 | E-mail: office@cosecam.org | Website: www.cosecam.org