National

• the development of a national youth committe in Austria has been successfully started: various get to know meetings have been held, as well as work distributed

• I am coordinating the YAC Austria (Youth Action Committee), which is currently working on developing workshops for schools on child pornography and related issues together with ECPAT Austria which will be conducted from September to December 2007

• coordinating the YAC Austria contact to a child rights network (various experts in different fields)

• attending all national board meetings, contributing to strategic discussions and main contact person for strengthening CYP within ECPAT Austria

• attending relevant national meetings for the Trafficking IV Project: meeting with ECPAT coordinators, national trainers • being main contact person for CYP within the Trafficking IV Project in Austria

• information sharing between ECPAT Bulgaria and Romania on the child care centers for trafficked children- ongoing!

• ressource exchange with ECPAT Ukraine for the national workshops (child rights postcards received!)

• ressource exchange with ECPAT Spain and ECPAT Italy on workshops material for workshops on child pornography- ongoing (not response so far!)

Regional

• information has been collected from various countries in my region ( Italy, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, etc.) on their level of CYP within ECPAT at the RNRE in Barcelona

• information has been collected on CYP outside ECPAT in various countries ( Netherlands, Swizerland, etc.)

• Email has been sent to establish contact concerning the collection of furhter information for the Data base- no response so far!

• attendance at the OSCE Conference "Alliance Against Trafficking in Persons- High- Level Conference on National Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism to Adress Trafficking in Human Beings” together with ECPAT Austria national coordinator (Arjen Bemmelmans) and ECPAT Netherlands (Theo Noten)

• meeting with ECPAT Netherlands ( Mirjam Blaak) when she was in Austria to discuss various issues such as the Trafficking IV Project, CYP in the Netherlands, etc.

EICYAC

• contributing to the selection of the EICYAC Logo

• starting to contribute to the development ot the new website together with Lotta and Michaela

• attending the RNRE Meeting for Europe in Barcelona: bringing CYP on the agenda wherever possible as well as conducting a workshop on the transfer of knowledge: sustainability of CYP (see Evaluation in Mission Report of Milica Petrovic)

• attending the Expert meeting of the Trafficking IV project together with Milica Petrovic- the East European Youth Representative: conducting a workshop on CYP in Evaluation as well as bringing on the agenda CYP in general wherever possible

ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Although there has been strong committment built up nationally in the past three months- which brings a lot of involvement of the youth representative and the YAC Austria in ECPAT Austria activities, the committment on a regional level has only been promised.

Talking to most of the ECPAT national groups in my region I understand that a lot feel that they lack the ressources to develop CYP within their national ECPAT groups.

Still, there has been committment, which needs to be followed up strongly and actively. It can not be expected from every ECPAT group to develop their own CYP, but what needs to be made clear is that the minimum committment (like answering to Emails, etc.) can and WILL be expected! Especially from those who already have active CYP in their country there needs to be more information exchange and networking within the various youth groups.

What I identify as one of the most important things so far in my work is to be present at important meetings and activities- to bring in CYP perspective and also to meet the people working in the field. Because there are already a lot of stakeholder in the various fields it is important for the youth work to be known and to know the relevant people. This is the starting point of profiting from various expertises and working together with main people in the field. Also, this avoids doing something that already has been done by somebody else, but instead working together and building on existing expertise. This has been possible through close work with the ECPAT Austria coordinators as well as other ECPAT Austria members, who were open and willing to let me participate and appreciated working together with me and the YAC Austria. My recommendations therefore are that all ECPAT members as well as experts in the field should be open and welcoming to show young people what they are doing and what they are working on and also appreciate and accept their help if offered.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT QUARTER

• The Pledge Sheet

• involvement of the YAC Austria in other ECPAT Austria projects (code of conduct, etc.)

• attendance at the Serbia meeting of the eastern european youth groups to learn from their experience and strong network.

• collecting more information on CYP within my region

• having one person assigned to be responsible contact person for CYP work within each national ECPAT group!!

• establishing contact to existing ECPAT youth groups

• attendance at the annual meeting in July in Nepal

• developing ideas for micro projects for next year: between east and western europe as well as within western europe

• completing work on the EICYAC website

• organizing (together with the national ECPAT coordinator) the ECPAT Europe Meeting and the Trafficking IV Expert meeting in November

• involvement in the development of evaluation criteria (indicators, etc.) in the Trafficking IV Project together with Milica Petrovic

• attending the national trainings of the Trafficking IV project in Austria

• continuing project of child pornography workshops in schools- conducting 2 workshops in September

• updating the ECPAT Austria youth section on the website together with national coordinator

• writing micro project proposal for the further development of the YAC Austria to make its development sustainable

• continuing networking with ECPAT groups and involvement at ECPAT Austria

• writing strategic plan for the following years