their friends  (adolescents) capable of teaching about trafficking of girls issues to others. 

Furthermore, all the peers expressed desire to receive the training on trafficking of girls 

and IPC.  

Possession of 

 Chetana ko dora 

 was almost universal among the adolescents. Almost all 

(98%) had received the 

Dora

. However, the proportion varied among the peers and the 

parents. Nearly half (46%) of the parents and 72% of the peers had received the 

 Chetana 

ko dora 

. Almost all members who received the 

Dora

 were aware of the criteria for its 

distribution.     

Conclusions 

The short term project (July December 2002) entitled "The Adolescent Girls Group Anti 

Trafficking Project"

implemented

by AMK in its  nine project VDCs of Baglung was 

successful in enhancing knowledge among the adolescent girls, peers, their parents and 

community members on different aspects of trafficking of girls such as signs indicative of 

trafficking, protection measures to prevent traffickers/trafficking and communicating 

trafficking related information to others. However, the target populations still lack 

sufficient knowledge regarding the legal aspects of trafficking. The primary target 

population, that is, the adolescents benefite d immensely by the project as evident from 

the higher increase in knowledge of different trafficking issues compared with the 

secondary beneficiaries such as the peers, parents and the community members.  

One of the limitations of the comparison between the baseline survey and endline survey 

of this short term project is the variance one can find in ethnicity make up, age, and 

marriage status in the respondent groups due to the fact that respondents for the endline 

survey and baseline survey were chosen through a random sampling process.  However, a 

random sampling method was chosen for the study to limit all biases in choosing the 

respondent samples. 

One indication that the project was able to enhance communication among the 

community people regarding trafficking was the presence of 

"Chetana Ko Dora

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"

 among 

adolescents, peers and parents. Comparatively, this was more widespread among peers 

than the parents as indicated by the fact that almost all of the peers had received the 

`dora'

 and just over one half  of the parents had possessed the 

 dora 

 at the time of the 

endline survey.  

The project has contributed towards increasing knowledge of trafficking of girls issues 

among all the beneficiaries as implied by the increased proportion of them being able to 

define trafficking of girls, cite signs indicative of trafficking, cite ways to identify 

possible traffickers and mention measures to protect girls from traffickers. They were 

also aware of the important role they could play in preventing trafficking in the 

community. The impact of training provided by AMK on trafficking of girls and IPC is 

obvious, as in the endline all the categories (adolescents, peers, parents and community 

members) communicated about trafficking of girls issues among themselves and with 

7

 Ibid 5 

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