MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Trafficking Survivors to Access Microfinance from NAPTIP of Nigeria

Nigeria’s National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) recently announced it is planning to offer microfinance to survivors of human trafficking as part of a set of “sustainable and evidence-based rehabilitation, reintegration and empowerment programs.” These programs also will include grants for micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as education services and “innovation hubs” to help survivors reintegrate into society. The agency’s other strategies include: (1) counteracting trafficking by furthering convictions of traffickers and prosecuting legal cases against them; and (2) enhancing public educational efforts on human trafficking.

Founded in 2003, NAPTIP is a unit of Nigeria’s federal government charged with carrying out the country’s “international obligation under the Trafficking in Persons Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons.” The definition of trafficking in persons includes using force, the threat thereof, deception or other means to exploit people for the removal of organs, sexual purposes or other forms of modern slavery.

By Arin Atluri, Research Associate

Sources and Additional Resources

The Punch Newspaper article
https://punchng.com/naptip-mulls-microfinance-initiative-for-human-traffick-survivors/

NAPTIP homepage
https://www.naptip.gov.ng/

UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/protocol.html

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