Prerana pioneered, standardized, and popularized several victim care services many of which were started for the first time globally e.g. Night Care Centre, Day Care Centre, Educational Support Programme, Institutional Placement Programme, Drop In Centre, Victim Collectives for civic rights, Anti CSE&T E mail News Service, Community Animators' Project, Sensitization of special functionaries, Anti trafficking Networking of voluntary sector organizations.
Some of the services started by Prerana were adopted by the Govt. of India in its Plan of Action 1998 the first national policy on child trafficking. The state government of Maharashtra consults Prerana on a number of issues pertaining to CSE&T from prevention to rehabilitation.
Prerana was presented before the U.N. Congress in April 2000 as the Best Practice of working with the victims of trafficking and organized crime.
Prerana is a National Affiliate of ECPAT International. Prerana was perhaps the first Indian agency to take care of the HIV affected children. Its CAA (Children Affected by AIDS) project supported by the FHI-USAID has been selected by SYNERGY-USAID as globally one of the best 7 approaches to help children affected by AIDS.
Prerana is aptly accredited with starting and running successfully a large number of activities and for socializing the process of intervention in CSE&T situation.
Its success lies in working together with the U.N. agencies, international organizations, victims' collectives, the central and the state governments, National and State Commissions for Women, state bureaucracies, professional associations, media, and a large number of voluntary sector agencies world over.
It has covered an incredibly large number of divergent groups under it sensitization programmes and published several books booklets and presented papers at all levels, global and local. The governments and Commissions usually invite Prerana on their various committees dealing with the issue of CSE&T.
This has not come in the way of Prerana challenging the decisions, practices and policies of the state in the court of law through a number of cases and Writs.
Prerana runs an Anti Trafficking Centre (ATC) a specialized centre for research, documentation, consultation, sensitization, training, clearing house of information and networking.
The ATC reaches out to most English speaking countries and attempts to fill the information gaps between the macro and the micro levels. The UNIFEM- SARO supports the ATC. It has impressive collections of documents on CSE&T.
Prerana took initiative in facilitating a network of voluntary sector organizations NACSET (Network Against CSE&T) that is very active on the anti CSE&T front in the state of Maharashtra.
NACSET has a large number of achievements to its credit and is supported by the UNICEF-Maharashtra, UNIFEM-SARO, USAID, and the Govt. of Maharashtra in a number of ways.
Prerana also facilitated NISHANT the Collective exclusively of the VOCSET women that has several achievements and success stories to its credit in its short career since inception.
EKTA the collective of children of red light areas is yet another platform Prerana has facilitated. |
