Jeanette L.

Ampog
Talikala/BTS NN
 Talikala. Incorporated
• Non-government organization formed in 1987, Davao City
• working with women and girls who are victims and
survivors of prostitution and sex trafficking
• started its campaign against sex trafficking in 1994
through the Purple Rose Campaign of GABRIELA
• trained on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Prevention by Stairway Foundation
• implementing a project on the anti-trafficking for the
purpose of sexual exploitation and OSAEC in partnership
with AWO International in selected nine barangays in
Davao City
• organizing and strengthening community-based
organizations of survivor/victims of sex trafficking,
children, parents and men advocates
 Lawig Bubai
• self-help organization of
victims and survivors of
sex trafficking and
prostitution of Davao City
• organized in 1993, SEC
registered organization
• 819 members who either
survivors or still in the
condition of prostitution
 Seminars/Trainings attended
• Sessions on women rights and women issues, child's
rights and child protection issues, reproductive health and
rights, prostitution framework, trafficking in persons, laws
protecting women and children
• Gender sensitivity trainings
• Trainings on peer education, life skills, community
education, public speaking, theater of the oppressed,
facilitation, para-legal, HRV documentation and reporting,
policy advocacy and alliance-building and organizational
management
Theater presentations on Trafficking in Persons
 Policy Advocacy
• document cases of trafficking and online sexual
exploitation
• one of the proponents which pushed for the passage of
the local ordinance on TIP in Davao City - 2012-2018
• signature campaign to declare vagrancy as
unconstitutional in the city submitted to the city council in
2006
Men in Valuable Partnership with
Women and Children
 MVPWC
• self-help organization of
men from 9 barangays in
Davao City
• Formed on Sept. 15, 2015
• SEC registered
• recognized by the city
council of Davao
 MVPWC
• Membership Composition
- fathers of trafficked and prostituted children
- fathers of vulnerable girls
- doer of violence
- concerned men in communities
 MVPWC
• Members' work/occupation
- drivers ( jeepneys, taxi, tricycle and traysikad)
- fishermen/ fish vendors
- construction workers
- laborers ( port, markets)
- purok leaders
- retirees
 Seminars/Trainings Received
• Seminars on children rights and child protection issues
such as child sexual abuse and exploitation, positive
discipline
• Gender-sensitivity trainings/sessions
• Seminars on women and children protection laws
• Trainings on Facilitation, Community Education, Public
Speaking, HRV Documentation and Reporting, Para-legal
trainings and Organizational Management
• Team building
Community Education
Public Speaking
Participation to Mobilization
 Policy Advocacy
• Barangay Level- proposed barangay ordinance on
PisoNet
 Challenges of the CBOs Advocacy initiatives
• Fear of being identified as prostituted and trafficked (LB)
• unnecessary disclosure ( LB)
• resources to conduct their own advocacy activities
• limited network ( MVPWC)
• availability of members during weekends ( MVPWC)
• lack of support from barangay officials (LB and MVPWC)
• turn-over of leaders