labor or services, including forced prostitution, domestic servitude, debt 
bondage or other slavery like practices (USAID 1999). 
The effort to abolish trafficking in Nepal intensified after the restoration of democracy in 
1990. Since then, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and community based 
organizations have started initiating programs to address and combat trafficking of girls.  
1.2 Background 
Aamaa Milan Kendra (AMK) is a national level nongovernmental organization 
established in 1975. The prime concern of AMK is the empowerment of women in all 
aspects of life: social, economic and health. It has implemented programs in areas such as 
population and health, adolescent health, youth development, income generation, 
education, gender sensitisation by mobilizing its mothers group and through networking 
with other local line agencies and organizations at the district level. AMK has an 
extensive network of 59 local branches spread out in the 19 districts of the country and a 
huge resource of 5,000 volunteers. Since 1999 it has also shifted its focus to adolescent 
girls through its reproductive health and other programs to empower their lives in 
preparation for adulthood. 
AMK implemented the  
A
dolescent 
G
irls 
I
nitiate 
f
or 
T
heir (A GIFT) for Reproductive 
Health (RH) Project  in nine village development committees (VDCs) of Baglung district 
from 1999 to 2001 under the 
Better Life Option Program
 and in 2002 continued for six 
months with ENABLE funding. Under this project one adolescent girls group (AGG) was 
created in each ward forming a total of nine AGGs in one VDC (each VDC in Nepal is 
comprised of nine wards).  The project supports a total of 891 adolescent girls between 
the ages of 10 19 to increase their ability to make and act upon informed decisions 
regarding their social, economic and health needs and rights.  A baseline survey of the 
project was conducted by CREHPA towards the end of 1999 to examine the existing 
knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) regarding sexual and reproductive health of the 
illiterate and out of school adolescent girls to be enrolled in the groups.  
Building upon the  A GIFT for RH Project,  AMK then launched
the Adolescent Girls 
Groups Anti Trafficking Project (AGGATP) supported by CEDPA/Nepal.  This program 
aims to increase the ability of the 891 members of AGGs to resist trafficking attempts 
and to be able to help other girls and women protect themselves against traffickers.   
This project goal falls within the purview of CEDPA/Nepal s anti trafficking strategic 
framework that is designed to support the strategies and goals of His Majesty s 
Government s (HMG) National Plan of Action against Trafficking of Children under the 
Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MWCSW). Activities under this 
framework focus primarily on prevention, one of the three specific areas targeted by 
USAID Asia's Regional Anti Trafficking Initiative. 
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