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Equity in Evidence: Final Report of the Conference

The conference “Equity in Evidence: fusing lived experience and community knowledge into research to end human trafficking” brought together 93 anti-trafficking experts from around the world. This group included people with lived experience of modern slavery, researchers, policymakers, donors and other professionals in the global movement to tackle modern slavery. The event aimed to address …

A Funders Toolkit for Lived Experience Inclusion in Modern Slavery Research (v1.0)

Guidelines for supporting peer engagement of people with lived experience in modern slavery research GFEMS believes that progress will best be achieved when those how have been most affected are positioned to lead. As such, we developed this toolkit to guide its own practices for the meaningful inclusion of people with lived experience in our …

Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience

Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience: a framework and assessment for measuring and increasing lived experience leadership across the spectrum of engagement is a first-of-its-kind resource that offers guidance and tools to support organizations’ progress toward meaningful survivor engagement. This toolkit was developed by people with lived experience and allies, in a collaboration between …

2021 Impact Report

2021 saw the Fund continue its programming in Kenya, Uganda, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Vietnam and launch a new project focused on coffee production in Brazil. Through it all, the work was first and foremost about the difference it made for those most affected by modern slavery. For this Impact Report, we focused on …

What do they need to know? Talking to different stakeholders about forced labor in Bangladesh's apparel sector

Different stakeholders need to take different actions to end forced labor in Bangladesh’s apparel sector Different stakeholders need different types of information. What governments need to know vs. what brands need to know may be worlds apart. As an anti-slavery leader working to end forced labor in Bangladesh’s informal apparel sector, the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery seeks to empower …

Three Promising Forced Labor Risk Detection Tools

The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery invests in developing a range of tools to help brands, buyers, and suppliers prevent, detect, and remediate forced labor in their operations. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased workers’ vulnerability to modern slavery across global apparel and manufacturing supply chains. In addition to exacerbating risks to workers, the pandemic …

Practitioner note: Supporting victims and survivors of sex trafficking

In August 2020, GFEMS commissioned the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham to conduct policy and practices to address commercial sexual exploitation in India and Bangladesh. This summary examines and documents current CSE policy in India and Bangladesh across three specific areas: Repatriation of victims Survivor rehabilitation Livelihood support. This summary also aims to …

First Look: Intervention Effectiveness in Bangladesh

Under a partnership with the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, GFEMS funded three individual interventions, led by implementing partners ELEVATE, aimed at disrupting the prevalence of forced labor in India and Bangladesh. For each of the three interventions, GFEMS partnered with Athena-ITAD to conduct “First-Look” case studies. These case studies represent a snapshot of …

Law and Policy Compendium on Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Bangladesh and India

A GFEMS-funded law and policy review conducted by The Rights Lab, University of Nottingham has been produced as a precursor document to upcoming notes and manuals on rehabilitation, livelihoods, and cross-border coordination for return and repatriation of CSE survivors.  The compendium provides an overview of legislative and policy frameworks on rehabilitation and reintegration in India …