Table 3.1.3  

Percentage Distribution of Parent Respondents Regarding Knowledge of 

Trafficking 

Male 

Female 

Total 

Heard about trafficking of girls? 

Baseline 

End  

Baseline 

End  

Baseline 

Endline 

line 

line 

Yes 

86.6 

100.0 

85.1 

100.0 

85.8 

100.0 

No 

13.4 

14.9 

14.2 

Total 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0  

100.0  

100.0 

100.0 

N 

82 

56 

94 

120 

176 

176 

Source of Knowledge 

Daughters  

51.8 

78.3 

69.9 

Radio/TV 

84.5 

76.8 

80.0 

50.8 

82.1 

59.1 

AMK 

  1.4 

28.6 

10.0 

19.2 

  6.0 

22.2 

Neighbour/Friends 

32.4 

21.4 

35.0 

15.0 

33.8 

17.0 

Newspapers/Books 

21.1 

28.6 

  7.5 

  7.5 

13.9 

14.2 

Family member 

  7.0 

  8.9 

  2.5 

  9.2 

  4.6 

  9.1 

Relatives 

  5.6 

  1.8 

  2.5 

  0.8 

  4.0 

  1.1 

Others 

10.7 

  4.2 

  6.3 

N 

71 

56 

80 

120 

151 

176 

*Sister, Sister in law, Niece 

Percentage totals may exceed 100 due to multiple responses. 

Community Member Group 

All Community Member Group (CMG) respondents from all four VDCs were aware of 

trafficking of  girls. Unlike the baseline survey, the respondents cited a variety of sources 

of information in the endline survey. Radio and newspaper were the commonly 

mentioned sources of information in the baseline survey. It is interesting to find the 

increase in the ir sources in the endline survey. The sources that were new in the endline 

survey were AMK, their daughters, training, and cassettes on trafficking of girls.  

3.2 Definition of Trafficking  

Adolescent Group 

Though the definition of trafficking proposed  by the United Nations Special Rapporteur 

in a report to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights covers a range of issues, 

the AGGATP defines trafficking of girls as taking/selling girls for sexual exploitation.  

The project has been successful in educating adolescent girls regarding the definition of 

trafficking. It is clear from the table below that the adolescents learned to define 

trafficking of girls in one of its aspects. Unlike the baseline survey where only seven 

percent of respondents could define trafficking of girls, all the respondents were able to 

define trafficking of girls in the endline survey. The knowledge of the adolescents 

regarding the definition of trafficking of girls as taking girls for sexual exploitation 

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