Table 3.8.2  

Percentage Distribution of Peer Group Respondents Who Can Protect Themselves 

from Traffickers within the Village 

Can protect self from traffickers

Baseline 

Endline 

Yes 

59.1 

97.7 

No 

31.8 

  1.7 

Don t know 

9.1 

  0.6 

Total 

        100.0 

         100.0 

N 

176 

176 

Ways to protect self from traffickers 

Not to trust a stranger 

68.3 

76.7 

Not to eat food given by a stranger 

59.6 

69.8 

Not to follow whatever friends say 

21.2 

66.9 

Not to accept gifts given by a stranger 

  6.7 

57.6 

Asks or threatens to runaway inform concerned authorities or 

  6.7 

16.9 

Inform senior member or concerned authorities  

  4.8 

43.0 

Try to find out more about the intended destination/employer 

  3.8 

21.5 

Consult any senior figure before making decision 

  2.9 

22.1 

Try to find out more about groom 

  5.2 

Question as to why someone is giving gifts 

  1.9 

42.4 

Register marriage 

  1.9 

  7.0 

N 

104 

172 

Percentage totals may exceed 100 due to multiple responses. 

Parent Group 

A higher percentage of parents in the endline survey were able to cite different preventing 

measures to protect their daughters from traffickers than in the baseline survey. The 

commonly cited responses were to facilitate an open discussion with their  daughters 

(70% in endline survey vs. 46% in baseline survey), check properly for employment 

offers to daughters (67% vs. 16%), not to discriminate between sons and daughters (59% 

vs. 26%), properly check out the stranger proposing to the daughter (58% vs.  18%), not 

to fall for any incentives that involve the daughter (52% vs. 29%) and not sending 

daughters out with strangers (28% vs. 16%) (Table 3.8.3).  

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