International Programs Overview

The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP) manages the only foreign assistance program dedicated solely to combating human trafficking outside of the United States. The Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report, published annually in June, provides a diagnostic assessment of the efforts of more than 180 governments to combat trafficking, slavery and exploitation, and is strategically linked to our anti-trafficking foreign assistance priorities. Our foreign assistance targets both sex trafficking and labor trafficking through implementation of the "3P" paradigm of Prevention(including demand reduction), Protectionof victims, and Prosecutionof traffickers. A fourth P, Partnership, is also a critical element in the majority of our programs.

The Office conducts an annual open and competitive grant application and review process. Last year, J/TIP received applications from NGOs requesting more than $107 million in assistance – far more than our funding could support. By the end of the FY 2014 competition for funding, we awarded a total of over $18 million to fund 41 grants.

We remain committed to funding cross-cutting programs—those that address multiple elements of the 3Ps—as well as favoring programs with a survivor protection component. We are focused on investing in the programs that hold the greatest promise for advancing the anti-trafficking movement around the world. Our funding supports the Department and USAID’s Joint Strategic Goal Framework and works toward the specific goals of advancing civilian security throughout the world, building up stable and democratic states through promoting rule of law and protection of human rights, and advancing U.S. interests and values through public diplomacy and programs that connect the United States and Americans to the world.

Anti-Trafficking Projects Funded in FY 2015

In FY 2015, the Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office) awarded over $18 million in grants and cooperative agreements to combat human trafficking. Nongovernmental and international organizations are supporting 27 projects that address prosecution, protection, and prevention in both sex and labor trafficking globally, regionally, and in the following countries: Bangladesh, Burma, Djibouti, Estonia, Ghana, India, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uruguay.

• Detailed descriptions of our FY 2015 projects»
• Detailed descriptions of our FY 2014 projects»
• Detailed descriptions of our FY 2013 projects»