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# 									Child Protection Compact Partnership Between the United States of America and Mongolia							

Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

April 2, 2020

The United States of America (“the United States”) and Mongolia, hereinafter the “Participants,”

*Recognizing*the July 31, 2019 Joint Declaration on the Strategic Partnership between the United States of America and Mongolia as well as the joint designation by the United States and Mongolia of 2019 as the “U.S.-Mongolia Year of Youth;”

*Acknowledging* the respective leadership roles and responsibilities of the United States Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) and Mongolia’s Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs (MOJHA), Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG), Ministry of Labor and Social Protection (MLSP), and the other agencies of the National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons in the fight against human trafficking;

*Reflecting* on Mongolia’s commitment to achieve the protection, prosecution, and prevention objectives of its 2017-2021 National Program to Combat Trafficking in Persons and the findings and recommendations of the 2019 *Trafficking in Persons Report*;

*Noting our shared concern* about the lasting psychological, physical, and developmental consequences of sex trafficking and forced labor for child victims; the increasing reports of commercial sexual exploitation of Mongolian children; the recognized risks associated with children’s increasing use of the internet; and our interest in partnering to improve efforts to prevent traffickers from exploiting children;

*Seeking to complement*existing and ongoing cooperation between the United States and Mongolia on matters related to child trafficking, including programs funded by the TIP Office to improve victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of trafficking in persons cases in Mongolia, and programs funded by the Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs to improve the multidisciplinary response to domestic violence, police enforcement, and border security action to prevent and interdict human trafficking cases;

*Desiring* to conclude this Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership in a manner that builds on the strong foundation of the Mongolian government’s anti-trafficking efforts to achieve improved, sustainable policies and practices that ensure effective interagency coordination and collaboration on child trafficking protection and prosecution efforts, hold perpetrators of child trafficking criminally accountable, provide comprehensive protective services for child victims, and prevent child trafficking from occurring in Mongolia;

Have reached the following understandings:

**I.  Context for a potential partnership on child trafficking**

A.  While Mongolia has increased its efforts to prosecute traffickers and identify and assist trafficking victims, few child victims of trafficking have been identified and protected and few cases of child sex trafficking – and even fewer cases of forced child labor – have been investigated and prosecuted.

B.  Agencies responsible for responding to reports of suspected child trafficking in Mongolia and providing protective care have reported a shortage of specialized shelter space, psychological counseling, and comprehensive services for child victims of trafficking, as well as challenges to the provision of timely victim and witness protection.

C.  Agencies have also acknowledged that increased interagency/multidisciplinary coordination of efforts is needed to effectively investigate and prosecute cases of child trafficking while ensuring the provision of comprehensive protective services from the time a child victim is identified through community reintegration.

D.  Criminal justice professionals have requested advanced training on implementing Mongolia’s new anti-trafficking legislation, specialized techniques for victim-centered investigations and prosecutions in child trafficking cases, and investigation of cyber-facilitated human trafficking.

E.  The lack of a sufficient number of labor inspectors and child rights officers, labor inspectors trained on laws related to the worst forms of child labor, and a legal framework that does not permit unannounced inspections has impeded the identification of child victims of forced labor.

F.  Members of the Mongolian National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons have expressed the need for greater public awareness of the indicators of child trafficking, including child sex trafficking, forced child labor, and online enticement and recruitment of children, as well as increased community understanding of how to respond when a suspected case is identified in a community.

G.  Numerous civil society, international, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) with expertise in child protection and combating human trafficking currently operate within Mongolia and contribute substantially by identifying trafficking victims and providing services.

H.  Although Mongolia has established one-stop service centers for victims of domestic violence in Ulaanbaatar and several provinces, timely multidisciplinary treatment and medical forensic services are often not available for child trafficking victims.

**II.  Benefits, Intentions, and Commitments of a CPC Partnership between the United States and Mongolia**

This CPC Partnership between the United States and Mongolia is a jointly developed and jointly implemented four-year plan intended to strengthen the capacity of the Mongolian government as well as NGO and civil society organizations to address child sex trafficking and forced child labor in Mongolia and thereby strengthen existing efforts to eradicate these crimes.  With the signing of this CPC Partnership, the Participants commit to the following over the four-year duration of the Partnership.

A.  The TIP Office intends to provide approximately $5 million in U.S. foreign assistance to nongovernmental and/or international organizations that will collaborate and cooperate with relevant agency members of the National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons to support implementation of activities under the objectives described in Section IV and in Appendix B: S.-Mongolia CPC Partnership Implementation Plan. The TIP Office will select implementing partners through a competitive grant process after the signing of the CPC Partnership, will support the start-up of activities described in Appendix B later in 2020, and will facilitate communication between the implementing partners and participating Mongolian agencies.  The TIP Office will also collaborate and coordinate its funding with other U.S. government agencies and State Department bureaus that support related work.

B.  Mongolia intends to make addressing human trafficking a higher priority within its budgetary and resource allocation processes going forward. This would include support for anti-trafficking activities in fulfillment of the CPC Partnership’s objectives and activities as described in Section IV and in Appendix B: S.-Mongolia CPC Partnership Implementation Plan, expanded support for shelters and other direct services for child victims of human trafficking, and the necessary equipment for investigations and victim protection.  In addition, Mongolian agencies and prosecutors participating in the CPC Partnership intend to increase the number of law enforcement, prosecutor, social welfare, mental health, and labor inspection personnel designated to prioritize child trafficking and to work collaboratively on victim-centered investigation and prosecution of child trafficking cases. The National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons will work with prosecutors, police, and child protection officers to establish, provide support for, and maintain an operational Multidisciplinary Task Force (MDTF) focused on interagency coordination in the identification and protection of child trafficking victims and the investigation and prosecution of child trafficking crimes.  Participating agencies and prosecutors will also cooperate with the implementing partners to support the objectives and activities.

C.  The Participants concur that the development and implementation of enhanced strategies for addressing child trafficking is intended to be focused in selected districts in Ulaanbaatar, for example, Songinokhairkhan, Bayanzurkh, Chingeltei, Bayangol and Sukhbaatar districts.

**III.  CPC Partnership Purpose**

The purpose of this CPC Partnership is to strengthen the efforts of the Mongolian government, NGOs, and civil society organizations to effectively prosecute and convict child traffickers, to provide comprehensive, trauma-informed care for child victims of these crimes, and to prevent all forms of child trafficking in Mongolia.

**IV.  CPC Partnership Objectives and Activities**

Objective 1: Improve interagency coordination and collaboration of child trafficking investigation, prosecution, protection, and prevention efforts by establishing and maintaining an operational MDTF under the National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons.

In order to achieve this objective, the Participants identify the following areas of cooperation and activities:
        - Participating agencies and the OPG will appoint members who will participate regularly in a MDTF that will meet at least monthly to share information and promote interagency collaboration on anti-trafficking investigation, prosecution, protection, and prevention activities. Members of the MDTF will include, but not be limited to, representatives from:  the OPG; the MOJHA, including the National Forensic Institute (NFI) and the National Police Agency (NPA)’s Organized Crime Group (OCG), Anti-Trafficking Police Unit (ATPU), and Witness and Victim Protection Division (WVPD); the MLSP, including the Family, Child, and Youth Development Agency (FCYDA); the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA); the General Agency for Specialized Inspection (GASI); the Ministry of Health (MOH); and NGOs.  Relevant ministry leaders and OPG will ensure designated MDTF members have the time and facilities necessary to participate in MDTF meetings.
        - MDTF members will cooperate and collaborate with an experienced human trafficking multidisciplinary task force operating in the United States (to be identified by the TIP Office) that will provide mentorship on enhanced interagency case coordination and collaboration throughout the identification and protection of child trafficking victims, investigation and prosecution of child trafficking cases, and prevention of child trafficking.
        - The National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons will oversee the MDTF members’ work to formalize its mission and goals and to establish structure and processes necessary for effective operation, including standard operating procedures with defined roles and responsibilities and partnerships.
        - MDTF members will coordinate to effectively handle child trafficking cases to ensure a multidisciplinary victim-centered approach from case identification to case disposition.
        - MDTF members will collect and analyze investigation, prosecution and protection case statistics in order to expand and improve its data-driven decision-making capacity.

Objective 2: Improve the quality of victim-centered investigations and prosecutions with the goal of increasing the number of effective prosecutions and convictions of child trafficking cases.

In order to achieve this objective, the Participants identify the following areas of cooperation and activities:
        - Improve methods for ensuring victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of child trafficking cases through advanced training and technical assistance for investigators and prosecutors, including specialized training in conducting interviews with potential child victims, the use of child-friendly spaces for such interviews, as well as the timely provision of multidisciplinary services and coordination of services through criminal justice proceedings.
        - Ensure that participating criminal justice and protection agencies dedicate increased personnel and other resources to human trafficking cases, including assigning more investigators to the NPA OCG and ATPU and providing them with the tools (e.g., vehicles, equipment, and supplies) needed for effective investigations; designating at least two prosecutors who will make human trafficking a priority within their caseload; and designating at least two FCYDA social workers who will develop increased expertise in comprehensive services for child trafficking victims and participate in protection activities related to trafficking cases.
        - Provide specialized training on the detection and investigation of cyber-facilitated human trafficking, including child trafficking, and expand the technical resources dedicated to forensic investigation of phones, computers, and other devices used by traffickers.
        - Ensure the timely provision of protective services provided by the NPA Witness and Victim Protection Division (including physical safety and psychological assistance) for child victims who may be witnesses in criminal proceedings and coordination of such services with designated FCYDA personnel.
        - Develop, maintain, and share statistical data on reports of suspected trafficking, investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and sentences in a manner that disaggregates the number of defendants, criminal offense charged, type of exploitation, and age and gender of trafficking victims.

Objective 3: Strengthen Mongolian and civil society capacity to identify victims of child trafficking and to provide comprehensive specialized services to victims of child sex trafficking and forced child labor.

In order to achieve this objective, the Participants identify the following areas of cooperation and activities:

3.1 Increase the capacity of frontline responders, including but not limited to police, social workers, child protection officers, inspectors, medical and mental health professionals, forensics experts, teachers, civil society, and other relevant stakeholders, to identify and refer cases of suspected child trafficking for assessment and specialized care.

3.2 Increase the availability of specialized residential facilities for child victims through increased Mongolian funding for comprehensive services and cooperative agreements between MLSP, FCYDA, and NGOs with expertise in providing care for child trafficking victims.

3.3 Expand the capacity of social workers, forensics and mental health professionals (including psychologists in the NPA Witness and Victim Protection Division) to conduct risk assessments and assess psychological needs, and to provide specialized psychological counseling and emotional support for child victims of sex trafficking and forced labor throughout legal proceedings.

3.4 Develop and strengthen comprehensive services for child trafficking victims that prioritize safety, wellbeing, and best interests of the child, and include case management to ensure provision of medical care, mental health care, shelter, legal assistance, education and/or vocational training, family/community reintegration, and other services described in Appendix A: Definitions.

3.5 Develop and maintain systems for collecting and analyzing data on identified victims of trafficking and services provided, in a manner that disaggregates type of exploitation, and age and gender of trafficking victims.

Objective 4: Increase efforts to prevent child sex trafficking and forced child labor through school, community, and online mechanisms that educate relevant stakeholders of the risks and indicators of child trafficking and increase the capacity of public officials, civil society, and private sector stakeholders to take appropriate action.

In order to achieve this objective, the Participants identify the following areas of cooperation and activities:

4.1 In coordination with the MDTF, NPA police crime prevention unit, and other local stakeholders, including but not limited to local municipal police and Legal Committees on Children’s Rights in Ulaanbaatar, develop and implement innovative strategies on prevention of child trafficking and identification of the indicators of child trafficking and what action to take when a suspected case is identified.

4.2 Train and provide adequate resources for all labor inspectors to recognize and take appropriate action on human trafficking cases, including forced child labor, and pursue amendments to the respective laws to permit unannounced inspections.

4.3 MDTF members work with relevant officials to prosecute traffickers and take timely action to close entertainment establishments, including massage parlors, where child trafficking victims have been exploited.

**V.  Departments and Offices Participating in the CPC Partnership**

A.  The United States:

Department of StateOffice to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office)
        - The TIP Office leads the United States’ global engagement to combat human trafficking. The Office partners with foreign governments, international organizations, and civil society to develop and implement effective strategies for confronting trafficking in persons, including through targeted foreign assistance implementing the “3P” paradigm: Prosecuting traffickers, Protecting victims, and Preventing human trafficking, along with the fourth “P” – Partnerships – to promote effective collaboration.

Embassy of the United States in Mongolia
        - The United States Embassy in Mongolia is committed to advancing the principles set out in the Declaration on Strategic Partnership between the United States of America and Mongolia, and to creating a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American and Mongolian people.

B.  Mongolia:
        - The National Sub-Council on Prevention of and Combat Against Trafficking in Persons Crime (National Sub-Council) is responsible for the implementation of Law on Combating against Trafficking, providing of professional guidance and coordination of prevention activities and operates within the Crime Prevention and Coordination Council (CPCC). 1  The National Sub Council is committed to:           - Coordinate the work of relevant organizations to ensure the implementation of laws and regulations on combating human trafficking, consider and review their activity reports, carry out inspection and submit recommendations.
          - Initiate studies on conditions of human trafficking crimes by professional and research organizations, elaborate proposals on further actions and submit them to the Government for consideration through the Council on Crime Prevention.
          - Identify areas of cooperation with relevant organizations of other countries on combating human trafficking and promote cooperation.
          - Involve citizens, economic entities and organizations in combating human trafficking crimes, promote cooperation with them, provide support for their initiatives and organize crime prevention training and awareness-raising campaign for the public.
          - Elaborate proposals on allocating in the state budget of the funds required for financing the implementation of the legislation and program on combating human trafficking crimes.
          - Organize trainings to increase professional capacity of those working at organizations, charged with combating and preventing human trafficking. 
        - The National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons is composed of representatives from MOJHA, CPCC, General Intelligence Agency (GIA), PGO, Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), MFA, MLSP, MOH, MECSS, NPA, CPD, Immigration Agency, General Executive Authority for Court Decision (GEACD), University of Internal Affairs (UIA), General Agency for State Registration (GASR), International Organization for Migration (IOM), Gender Equality Center NGO (GEC), Human Security Policy Studies Center NGO (HSPSC), and ECPAT Mongolia NGO.

**VI.  Communications**

Communications specified under this CPC Partnership will be in writing and submitted to the Point of Contact (POC) designated by each Participant as indicated below.  Notice of a change in POC should be provided in writing to the other POCs within 30 days of such change.  The POCs will facilitate intra- and interagency communication regarding CPC Partnership activities, monitor progress toward meeting the objectives and completing activities of the CPC Partnership, and assist the National Sub-Council to report annually on progress.

**Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons POC:**Name: Jane Nady Sigmon, PhDTitle: Senior Advisor to the DirectorOffice: Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in PersonsEmail address: SigmonJN@state.govTelephone: +1-202-453-8503

**Embassy of the United States in Mongolia POC**:Name: Nomintsetseg MunkhbayarTitle: Political AssistantOffice: Embassy of the United States in MongoliaEmail address: CPCUlaanbaatar@state.govTelephone: +976 7007 6224

**Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs POC**:Name: Nyamgerel LkhamtogmidTitle: Chief of Staff of the Crime Prevention and Coordination CouncilOffice: National Sub-Council on Trafficking in PersonsEmail address: nyamgerel@mojha.gov.mnTelephone: +976 11 315539

**National Police Agency POC**:Name: Batzorig BaatarsurenTitle: Head of the Child Crime Prevention DepartmentOffice: Metropolitan Police DepartmentEmail address: yeszorig@gmail.comTelephone: +976 9666 3540

**National Police Agency POC**:Name: Nyamdavaa OchirTitle: Chief of the Organized Crime Group and Human Trafficking Investigations DivisionOffice: Criminal Police Department’s Organized Crime Group and Human Trafficking Investigations DivisionEmail address: nyamkaa2004@yahoo.comTelephone: +976 51 264104, +976 88091166

**Office of the Prosecutor General POC**:Name: Ariunbold Tsend-AyushTitle: Acting Assistant Prosecutor GeneralOffice: Office of the Prosecutor GeneralEmail address: arii_prosecutor@yahoo.comTelephone: +976 99097350

**Ministry of Labor and Social Protection POC**:Name: Bayarmaa NarantuyaTitle: Head of the Ministry of Labor and Social ProtectionOffice: Children, Youth, Elders and Family Development DepartmentEmail address: bayarmaa@mlsp.gov.mnTelephone: +976 51 262617

**Family, Child, and Youth Development Agency POC:**Name: Azjargal JantsandorjTitle:  Senior Protection OfficerOffice: Family, Child, and Youth Development AgencyEmail address: azjargal.j@fcy.gov.mnTelephone: +976 51 262209

**Ministry of Foreign Affairs POC**:Name: Oyu VashaTitle: Head of the Human Rights DivisionOffice: Department of the Law and TreatiesEmail address: dep09-9@mfa.gov.mnTelephone: +976 51 262179

**Ministry of Health POC**:Name: Buyanjargal YadamsurenTitle: Director of the Medical Assistance DepartmentOffice: Ministry of HealthEmail address: buyanjargal@moh.gov.mnTelephone: +976 51 260474

**General Agency for Specialized Inspection POC**:Name: Battsengel BatjargalTitle: Senior Labor InspectorOffice: Department of Labor, Social Protection and Special OversightEmail address: battsengel.b@inspection.gov.mn; btsengel2005@gmail.comTelephone: +976 51 260147

**National Forensic Institute POC**:Name: Enkh-Amgalan BaljinnyamTitle: Head of Monitoring, Assessment and Internal Audit DepartmentOffice: Monitoring, Assessment and Internal Audit DepartmentEmail address: t.nurmaa@nifs.gov.mnTelephone: +976 51 266342, +976 99157203

**Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports POC**:Name: Nyam-Ochir Tumur-OchirTitle: Director of the Education Policy DepartmentOffice: Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and SportsEmail address: nyamochir@mecs.gov.mnTelephone: +976 51 262424

**VII.  Sustainability**

The Participants intend for the policy and operational improvements in Mongolia’s response to child trafficking adopted with the support and during the course of this CPC Partnership to continue after the end of this Partnership. The National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons will develop a plan for sustaining such improvements, including any additions to Mongolia’s legal framework that may facilitate continuation of MDTF operations.

**VIII.  Marking Progress in Achieving CPC Partnership Objectives**

A.  The National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons on behalf of the participating Mongolian agencies will provide an annual report to the U.S. Embassy and the TIP Office, including a narrative report describing progress toward meeting the CPC Partnership objectives and completing the activities in the U.S.-Mongolia CPC Partnership Implementation Plan and data for the performance indicators for measuring progress in Appendix C.  The reporting format will be jointly developed by the Participants within six months of the effective date of the CPC Partnership.

B.  The TIP Office will monitor the progress of implementing partners and progress toward meeting the CPC Partnership objectives and completing the activities.

C.  Beginning one year from the start-up of Partnership activities, the Participants and the implementing partners will meet annually to highlight CPC Partnership accomplishments, note challenges, and discuss planned activities for the coming year.

**IX.  Modification**

This CPC Partnership may be modified or extended in writing with the mutual consent of the Participants.

**X. Effective Date and Limitations**

This CPC Partnership will become effective on the date of the last signature by the representatives signing for each Participant and remain effective for four years from that date.****The representatives signing for each Participant are jointly signing to acknowledge their individual agency commitments and the collaborative spirit of this Partnership.  This Partnership does not constitute an international agreement and does not create any binding obligations between the Participants under either international or domestic law; activities of each Participant are subject to the availability of appropriated funds.

**Signed in Ulaanbaatar in eight originals, four each in the English and Mongolian languages.**

**For the****United States**

_________________________________________U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia

_________________________________________Date

 

**For Mongolia**

_________________________________________Minister of Justice and Home Affairs

_________________________________________Date****

_________________________________________Prosecutor General

_________________________________________Date****

_________________________________________Minister for Labor and Social Protection

_________________________________________Date

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**Appendix A: Definitions**

**Definitions for the Purposes of the****U.S.-Mongolia Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership**

**“Trafficking in persons”** and **“human trafficking”** are used as umbrella terms to describe when a trafficker recruits, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.  This compelled service includes involuntary servitude, slavery or practices similar to slavery, debt bondage, and forced labor.  Human trafficking can include, but does not require, movement from one place to another.  At the heart of this crime is the traffickers’ goal of exploiting and enslaving their victims, and they use myriad coercive and deceptive practices to do so;

**“forced child labor”**is a form of human trafficking in which a trafficker forces a child to work.  Any person who recruits, harbors, transports, provides or obtains a child for the purpose of forced labor has committed this crime.  Forced child labor includes situations in which the child is in the custody of someone other than an immediate family member who requires the child to perform work that financially benefits that person.  It also includes a situation in which a parent provides a child to another person who subjects the child to forced labor.  Child victims of forced labor do not have the option of leaving the exploitative work situation.  Traffickers who subject children to forced labor usually do not adequately cared for the child, do not allow the child to attend school, and may be physically and emotionally abusive;

**“child sex trafficking”** is a form of human trafficking that occurs when a trafficker recruits, harbors, transports, provides, advertises, solicits, patronizes, obtains, or maintains a child for the purpose of performing a commercial sex act.  Force, coercion or deception are not required in cases of child sex trafficking.  When traffickers use a live webcam or other device to broadcast over the Internet children performing commercial sex acts or other explicit sexual acts it is a form of sex trafficking often referred to as online sexual exploitation of a child;

**“child trafficking”**encompasses forced child labor and child sex trafficking; and

**“child**” is a person under the age of 18.

**Victim-centered approach:**Placing the crime victim’s priorities, needs, and interests at the center of the work with the victim; providing nonjudgmental assistance, with an emphasis on client self-determination, where appropriate, and assisting victims in making informed choices; ensuring that restoring victims’ feelings of safety and security is a priority and safeguarding against policies and practices that may inadvertently re-traumatize victims; ensuring that victims’ rights, voices, and perspectives are incorporated when developing and implementing system- and community-based efforts that impact crime victims.

**Comprehensive services:**An array of services that should be made available to a trafficking victim. At a minimum, these services include shelter; intensive case management; safety planning; crisis intervention; victim advocacy; legal assistance; mental health treatment, including individual and group counseling; support in family reunification and community reintegration; medical care; dental care; substance abuse treatment; assistance with educational and/or vocational needs; life skills training; transportation; and other necessary services. These services should be made available for victims identified under this initiative in coordination with other existing governmental resources.

**Trauma-informed approach:**A trauma-informed approach includes an understanding of the vulnerabilities and experiences of trauma survivors, including the prevalence and the physical, social, and emotional impact of trauma.  This approach recognizes signs of trauma in individuals and the professionals who help them and responds by integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, practices, and settings.  Trauma-informed approaches place a priority on restoring the survivor’s feelings of safety, choice, and control.  Programs, services, agencies, and communities can be trauma-informed.

**Characteristics of Multidisciplinary Task Forces focused on Human Trafficking:**

1. Task Forces implement victim-centered, collaborative, and sustainable approaches that will:
        - Ensure identification of victims of all types of human trafficking.
        - Engage in coordinated approaches for proactive victim-centered investigations and effective prosecutions of both sex trafficking and forced labor.
        - Address the individualized needs of trafficking victims through referrals and the provision of a comprehensive array of quality services.

2. Task Force members include, but are not limited to the following:
        - Police agency
        - A designated Prosecutor
        - Social service agencies, including child welfare agency
        - Criminal justice system victim/witness coordinators
        - At least one nongovernmental victim service organization that serves victims of trafficking, including social or legal service providers and those with expertise in serving vulnerable communities, e.g., migrants, runaway and homeless youth
        - Civil labor enforcement agency

3. Task Forces operate and function effectively when the following core elements are regularly maintained and implemented:
        - Partnership and collaboration
        - Data-driven decision-making
        - Leadership and management
        - Active investigations and prosecutions
        - Peer-to-peer mentoring
        - Advanced training

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**Appendix B: U.S.-Mongolia CPC Partnership Implementation Plan**

**Objective 1: Improve interagency coordination and collaboration of child trafficking investigation, prosecution, protection, and prevention efforts by establishing and maintaining an operational MDTF under the National Sub-Council on Trafficking in Persons.**