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# 									Enhancing J/TIP Grantees’ Ability To Collect Performance Measurement Data: Final Report							

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Beth Rabinovich, Ph.D.

December 16, 2016

Prepared for:

Mr. Mark ForstromOffice to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in PersonsU.S. Department of StateWashington, DC

Prepared by:Westat*An Employee-Owned Research Corporation*1600 Research BoulevardRockville, Maryland 20850-3129(301) 251-1500

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## 1. Introduction

This document is the final report for the cooperative agreement between the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking Persons (J/TIP) and Westat (contract #S-SGTIP-11-CA-0026).  The project had several goals:  (1) evaluate Vital Voices Global Partnership’s (Vital Voices) J/TIP-funded Project:  Improving Cameroon’s Criminal Justice Response to Human Trafficking, (2) conduct baseline assessment of the U.S. – Ghana Child Protection Compact Partnership, (3) develop a performance measurement toolkit, and (4) provide technical assistance on monitoring and evaluation to the Coalition to Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), a J/TIP grantee.  The following sections describe the background of each project task, the activities, findings, and lessons learned.[1]

## 2. Evaluation of the Vital Voices J/TIP-funded project: Improving Cameroon’s Criminal Justice Response to Human Trafficking

### 2.1  Background

J/TIP awarded a grant to Westat in September 2011 to provide evaluation services that included conducting an outcome evaluation of Vital Voices’ J/TIP-funded project to strengthen the response to human trafficking. The following paragraphs briefly describe the Vital Voices project.  Section 2.2 describes the evaluation activities, followed by sections on the findings, and lessons learned.

In October 2010, J/TIP awarded a two-year cooperative agreement to Vital Voices and its partners, Nku”mu Fed Fed  (NFF) and AEquitas, to support the development of training materials to increase collaboration among investigators, prosecutors, and victim advocates who deal with trafficking victims and traffickers.  The grant also provided information on how to work within existing legislative frameworks in Cameroon.   J/TIP subsequently awarded another grant to Vital Voices in 2012 to again partner with NFF, AEquitas, Cross Sector Solutions, and STRATEGIES! This second grant was a continuation of the earlier work developing materials, along with conducting regional training institutes, launching anti-trafficking task forces, and supporting the development of a design for a data collection system in Cameroon.

The Vital Voices project had two objectives:
        - Enhance the capacity of criminal justice practitioners, government officials, and civil society to effectively identify, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking cases; and
        - Enhance the capacity among government ministries, justice sector officials, and civil society to help combat human trafficking.

Activities for the first objective included refining the curriculum for the Institutes, conducting three regional institutes, and providing case consultation and technical advice to the participants.  For the second objective, activities involved creating three regional task forces, developing standard operating procedures for the task forces, and developing a unified system for data collection and reporting.

### 2.2 Evaluation Activities

Westat’s evaluation consisted of developing evaluation questions in collaboration with Vital Voices’ project staff (see Exhibit 1).  The data collection tasks included conducting key informant interviews with U.S. project staff, Cameroonian faculty, participants, and other Institute attendees, a review of documents from Vital Voices and AEquatas as well as a review of institute participant’s individual action plans and two site visits:  one to observe Institutes and to conduct individual interviews with participants.  During the Institutes, the Westat researcher administered pre- and post-Institute surveys of participant knowledge of human trafficking and assessment of the Institutes.   Exhibit 1 shows the evaluation questions that guided Westat’s work.