Chapter 5 

AWARENESS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION ON TRAFFICKING   

This chapter deals with the awareness of different aspects of interpersonal 

communication that covers the perception of the target audience on:   

Appropriate person to communicate with 

Easiest person to communicate with 

Types of information to be communicated 

Frequency of communication by the adolescents and their peers 

Knowledge of training on interpersonal communication received by the 

adolescents and  

The importance of such training for the target audience to communicate 

essential information and messages. 

Furthermore, this chapter analyses the level of increase in knowledge for communicating 

information to others regarding trafficking of girls issues and the type of information 

communicated. The importance of and impact of IPC training on the target population 

and the distribution of 

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(thread of awareness) 

will also be highlighted in 

this chapter.  

5.1 

Preferred Person to Communicate with on Any Issue, including Trafficking 

of Girls  

Adolescent Group 

It was encouraging to find that as compared with the baseline survey responses, a higher 

percentage of the adolescents in the endline survey expressed that they felt ease in 

communicating with their friends (86% in endline vs. 80% in baseline), mothers (62% vs. 

56%) and sisters (48% vs. 19%). It was evident that the most preferred persons for the 

adolescents to communicate with on any issue were their friends, mothers and sisters. 

Fathers (68% in the endline survey vs. 76% in the baseline survey) and brothers (27% vs. 

32%) were still cited by the majority of the adolescents as difficult to communicate with 

(Table 5.1.2). 

The cultural belief that daughters should not interact and intermingle with the male 

members in the society, spending most of their time with their mothers, sisters and 

friends, was one of the barriers that hindered girls from communicating with the male 

members.  

Compared with the baseline survey, where only about half (52%) of the respondents 

communicated information on trafficking of girls to others, it was encouraging to find 

that all (100%) the respondents in the endline survey communicated information on 

trafficking of girls to others (Table 5.1.2). 

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