BURKINA FASO:

Grade-FRB (Le Groupe de Recherche-Action pour un Développement Endogène de la Femme Rurale du Burkina) is a development ngo organized in January 1998.
It was formed to promote the status of women and children, offer training, fight against child exploitation, assist vulnerable people with micro enterprises and promote good local governance. Its work is based upon human rights principles and involves education and research.

COTE D'IVOIRE:

Bureau International Catholique de l'Enfance (BICE) was formed in the Cote d'Ivoire in 1987. Its principles of operation are to encourage the participation of children in family and social life, to assist with the development of children, promote the rights of children and work with families of children. BICE works at the political, justice, civil society, media and national levels.

THE GAMBIA:

The Child Protection Alliance is new but effective in lobbying and advocacy. The Alliance is of the opinion that the child is a holistic person and all sectors must play their role and empower the child. The mission is to raise awareness on all forms of abuse against the child and advocate for redress. The organization in collaboration with its partners fights child pornography and trafficking.

NIGER:

The Association TIMIDRIA successfully represented a victim of slavery with the support of the International Human Rights Law Group. It has published a document called The Master-slave and conducted a research in 8 regions of Niger to discover that there are 800,000 people living as slaves in Niger. In 2003 TIMIDRIA spearheaded the criminalization of slavery. The organization is not part of any network.

NIGERIA

Global Rights (formerly International Human Rights Law Group) Global Rights is a human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge oppressive ideologies and power structures, channel international pressure to secure human rights protections, and amplify new voices within the global discourse. With offices in 10 countries, we help local activists create just societies through proven strategies for effecting change.

Women's Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON) is affiliated to various international and local coalitions. In 1996 WOCON carried out research and launched its campaign against human trafficking in 1997. They are engaged in advocacy, awareness campaigns, workshops, research and the reintegration of trafficked children into society.

Women's Rights Watch uses campaigning, media and the Internet as a tool for disseminating information. It has created a database of violations of women's rights, offers free legal representation to victims of violence, and has formed a network on trafficking. They offer free legal services to victims of human trafficking. There is also an ongoing micro credit scheme for women between the ages of 18 - 45 years who are most vulnerable to being trafficked. They lobbied for the passage of the Edo State Law on human trafficking. Most girls are lured with tales of a better life in Europe. The public only became aware of the truth when the deportations started. The situation is facilitated by poverty. There is a skills acquisition centre to encourage girls to stay away from prostitution.

Human Rights Centre (HRC) focuses on the people at the grassroots because they are the most vulnerable. In February 2003 the Centre organized an outreach programme on human trafficking at Juju Hills in Ebonyi State. The aim of the outreach was to sensitize the people on the issues involved in trafficking, child labour e.t.c and the dangers of giving away their children. At the outreach programme the Centre also encouraged greater enrollment of children in schools as a way of reducing child labour in the region. The Centre was handling the case of a 14 year old that had been trafficked with the aide of her parents who were ignorant. Unfortunately the trafficker jumped bail and the case could not continue. The Centre also received information of a syndicate notorious for recruiting children in Ebonyi State for traffic to urban centers but so far has not been able to trace the members of the syndicate. Ebonyi state is also a trafficking route favored by traffickers because of the laxity of security in the area.

Central Educational Service (CENDUSERVE) is an experiment through educational non - profit organization established in 1995 to act as a catalyst for the promotion of education, youth and Gender issues through multidisciplinary research, training, teaching, exchange of ideas and over all human development in Nigeria and Africa at Large. As a member of the NACATIP and WILDAF the Centre initiated the idea on the infusion of the issue human trafficking into the Nigerian schools curriculum.

TOGO:

WAO-Afrique coordinates a regional anti-trafficking network and has conducted research on the problem. It has organized seminars at regional and national levels and provided assistance to victims has been done at both regional and national levels through programmes and projects. It has welcome centers for child victims. At the regional level, the network has a programme against the trafficking of children with NGOs from the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Togo. Members of the network distribute information over a liaison bulletin called the tree.

International Partnership for the Protection of the Rights of the Child in Togo is a collection of NGO's working for the rights of the person. It is a network against the domestic abuse of children. The organization is working on two levels. The first is the national level that looks at the children as victims of trafficking. And the second is on the sub-regional level. WAO coordinates the war against child trafficking in 5 countries, Benin, Mali, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso. We have produced a training manual for security forces.