Partners

The program’s inclusive stakeholder engagement strategy, which extends beyond the justice sector, supports ASEAN and ASEAN Member States to make systemic changes in their criminal justice and victim support processes.

By partnering and engaging with a broad range of regional and national stakeholders, ASEAN-ACT is capturing a wider range of opportunities to strengthen justice responses and advance the rights of victims.

The program works with the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC) and the ASEAN Heads of Specialist Anti-trafficking Units Process to assist these bodies to fulfil their mandate in implementing the ACTIP, and report on progress.

ASEAN-ACT works closely with the Lead Shepherd on Trafficking in Persons, who chairs the SOMTC working group to progress regional counter-trafficking cooperation. This work is guided by the Bohol Trafficking in Persons Work Plan 2.0 (2023–2028).

Building on Australia’s previous support, ASEAN-ACT assists the SOMTC with promoting, monitoring and reviewing ACTIP implementation, and reporting periodically on progress to the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime.

ASEAN-ACT’s work with ASEAN bodies is also informed by the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000. The protocol supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.