Table 3.9.2  

Percentage Distribution of Peer Group Respondents Who Can Protect Themselves 

from Traffickers While Traveling 

Ways to protect self from traffickers while 

Baseline 

Endline 

traveling 

Not to eat food given by a stranger 

49.4 

77.8 

Consult with fellow travelers  

18.8 

64.8 

Tell the truth about the destination and relationship 

  7.4 

59.7 

Take help from fellow passengers 

  9.7 

14.2 

Inform police 

  9.1 

10.8 

Not to trust strangers  

  1.1 

Don t know 

  29.5 

  0.6 

N 

176 

176 

Percentage totals may exceed 100 due to multiple responses. 

3.10  Role of Adolescents, Peers, Parents and Community Members in Preventing 

Trafficking of Girls 

Adolescent Group 

Compared with the baseline survey, where nearly one  third (32%) of the respondents did 

not know how to play their role in preventing trafficking of girls, it was interesting to find 

that all 176 respondents in the endline survey expressed that they could play a vital role 

in preventing the trafficking of girls.   

Compared with the baseline survey, the respondents in the endline survey strongly 

emphasized their role in preventing trafficking of girls by teaching fellow people what 

they knew about trafficking of girls (45% in endline survey vs. 15% in baseline survey). 

However, other commonly cited responses were: to organize group meetings to make 

people aware of trafficking of girls (41%), to tell friends not to trust anybody 

immediately (21%), and to not eat food given by strangers (11%) (Table 3.10.1). 

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