Chapter 6 

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 

The endline survey assessed the impact of the  "Adolescent Girls Group Anti Trafficking 

Project"

with respect to the level of awareness on anti trafficking issues of adolescent 

girls, their peers, their parents and the community members. Primary beneficiaries of the 

project were 891 adolescent girls, and secondary beneficiaries were about 1,600 peers, 

1,150 parents and 2,000 community members.  The evaluation draws data from the 

baseline survey (September 2002) and endline survey (January 2003); each of them had a 

similar design, which collected data from a sample of 176 adolescents, 176 peers and 176 

parents of adolescents from four out of nine  project VDCs of AMK in Baglung district. 

Respondents for both the baseline survey and endline survey were randomly selected 

from the pre existing AGGs of the A GIFT for RH Project. Unlike the baseline survey, 

where the majority of the respondents (of all  the three categories) were from the Magar 

community, in the endline survey, the majority of the respondents represented KDS in the 

adolescent (46%) and parent (46%) groups, and BCT (47%) among the peers. Compared 

with the baseline survey where few (3%) adolescents and few (9%) peers were married, 

in the endline survey all the adolescents and almost all (99%) the peers were unmarried.  

Similar to the baseline, all the three categories of respondents primarily relied on 

agriculture as their source of income. At least one family member of 71% of adolescents, 

two thirds (66%) of peers and nearly two thirds (62%) of parents were working outside 

their village. Most of them had been to India.   

It is encouraging to know that the level of awareness of trafficking of girls increased 

among the adolescents (100% in the endline survey vs. 82% in the baseline survey), 

parents (100% vs. 86%) and peers (99% vs. 62%). Almost all (99%) the adolescents 

mentioned 

AMK 

as their source of information, a large majority (88%) of the peers cited 

AGG 

friends (AMK adolescent group)

 and a majority (70%) of parents cited their 

daughters

 as their source of information about trafficking of girls. Similarly, the 

community members also mentioned 

daughters

, 

AMK

 and 

training/workshops

 as sources 

of information.  

An increase in the knowledge of the definition of  trafficking of girls  is also seen in the 

endline survey compared with the baseline survey where the majority of the respondents 

in all three groups and the community members defined `trafficking of girls' as: 

selling 

girls for sexual exploitation,

selling girls for labour, taking girls

to work in circus, 

and

taking girls to work in carpet factories

. The proportion of respondents who were aware of 

 the incidence of girls being trafficked or disappearing from the village  in all the three 

groups increased in the endline survey compared with the baseline survey: adolescents 

(16% in the endline survey, vs.8% in the baseline survey), peers (12% in the endline 

survey vs. 4% the baseline survey) and parents (18% in the endline survey vs. 5% in the 

baseline survey).  

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