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It gathered twenty six high ranked officers of law enforcement and judiciary institutions from
Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti and the Federal Republic of Somalia’s region of
Somaliland. The high-level training focused on crosscutting skills applicable to many different
human trafficking and smuggling situations and included sessions on investigation, legal norms,
situation analysis, information gathering and communication among others.
The overall approach of the workshop deliberately went beyond purely technical skill building and
focused more on developing collaborative, cooperative, and complementary practices. The
workshop consciously looked at how to foster a more integrative and holistic thinking about human
trafficking and
smuggling with
protection lenses.
The training was
built on a variety of
methodologies,
stressing active
learning through a
range of small-
group, role-play,
presentations with
team and individual
activities.
Participants were
invited to look
through a lens of
inclusion and seek
opportunities of
collaboration rather than avoiding inter-agency relationships. The training methodology focused on
team skills, analysis, strategic planning, communication and coordination.
Moreover, one whole day out of five, was
dedicated to a simulation in which
participants confronted multi-faceted tasks of
investigating migrant smuggling and human
trafficking cases and identifying and
providing adequate assistance to trafficked
persons.
The fictitious case study set out a complex
situation of human trafficking in which
working groups had to identify a variety of
protection needs of diverse population
groups, find out the main needs to activate a
law enforcement investigation and enact
solutions, to be also elaborated as a
comprehensive proposal of anti-trafficking and protection strategies and response mechanisms.
The activities conducted so far have allowed to initiate the creation of a regional networks of
professionals involved in the fight against trafficking and smuggling, thus reinforcing information
sharing and regional cooperation. Concrete applications of this emerging cooperation are already
occurring. Expertise France will seize the opportunity for building-up a regional cooperation
dynamic and mobilize experts from the East Africa region in the next activities related to peer to
peer exchange.

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