Situation Analysis of Hard-to-reach Groups at Raksirang Municipality of Makwanpur District

Abstract

Background: Nepal is known as a source country for the trafficking of young girls and women. Almost 2 million Nepalese migrant laborers are working in India and some of them engage in unprotected sex, often with female sex workers, and get infected with HIV. This research aims to identify the current situation of human trafficking survivors, sexual and gender-based violence survivors, and migrant workers including barriers to the re-integration of survivors and their access to care and services.

Methods: This cross-sectional study enrolled around 127 participants from the mobile population of 1000 research participants for the quantitative survey. Similarly, 59 key participants (52 from focus groups and seven for key informant interviews) were enrolled in the qualitative study. A purposeful snowball sampling technique was used to identify the study participants. Furthermore theories of saturation were used to analyse the data for meaning and code saturation that was supposed to be included for analysis. It was focused on barriers to the reintegration of survivors and their care access.

Results: The survivor experiencing a physical and mental overload impedes them from defending themselves and seeking help. The majority (61 percent) participants were facing sexual harassment. Only 19 percent of the participants were involved in the social decision with community people and 16 percent were financial decisions. Very few (14 percent) participants know the legal provisions against GBV. Only 8 percent of the participants were knowledgeable about the local government support system against GBV and Trafficking in Person (TIP). A relatively few (11 percent) participants mentioned that TIP and GBV awareness programs were conducted in their community. Most of the survivors stated they had never taken part in the decision-making process at the local level.

 Conclusion: There was a distinct gap shown by this research study about the thinking, behavior, program conduction and assistance that were supposed to be provided to the survivor by the local government. Until and unless the survivors fully engage in the policy formation in the government, the barriers and challenges faced by survivors will never end.