REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA COMBINED SECOND PERIODIC REPORT UNDER THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE`S RIGHTS and INITIAL REPORT UNDER THE PROTOCOL TO THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA protective measures of the Children’s Act, whilst organisations that provide services to adult victims must be accredited and must comply with certain norms and standards and must offer specific programmes to victims of trafficking. A set of guidelines have furthermore been developed to ensure that minimum norms and standards are in place when dealing with child and adult victims of trafficking. This will ensure the treatment of victims of trafficking with the dignity as enshrined in the Constitution. 395. The Act also provides for the establishment of the Inter-sectoral Committee on Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons. 396. Institutionally, South Africa has established a multi-sector alliance to combat trafficking. The alliance draws membership from government departments and relevant agencies, the IOM, NGOs both national and international and various UN and identified foreign missions in South Africa. A Trafficking in Persons Inter-sectoral Task Team has also been established. The Task Team has formulated a strategy to effectively address trafficking in persons. Elements of this strategy include – information sharing, capacity building and development; victim assistance and integration; policy and legislation development; liaison and consultation; and monitoring and evaluation. 397. The “Tsireledzani programme”,217 which means “Let us protect each other” in Tshi-Venda - one of the country’s official languages, is the name given to the initiative to combat trafficking in persons and to comply with international commitments. The programme was initiated in 2007, and relied on the input of a wide range of partners both within Government, civil society and international partners. The “Tsireledzani Programme” consists of various pillars of which the International Organization for Migration (IOM) was responsible for the area that focused on capacity building and its aim was to provide government officials with the necessary skills to adequately identify and respond to incidences of both, internal and international, trafficking in persons in South Africa. The IOM provided technical capacity building support through a designed, developed and tested curricular/ training modules tailored to selected government departments. The training modules are accredited by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). As part of the Tsireledzani programme, the IOM also compiled a ‘Handbook on CounterTrafficking for South African Government and Civil Society’. South Africa has signed a 3year funding agreement with the European Union in June 2006 to support the implementation of this strategy. 398. In the law enforcement sector, the National Prosecuting Authority’s SOCA Unit is responsible for the prosecution of persons accused of human trafficking. In anticipation of the legislation being passed the National Prosecuting Authority (SOCA Unit) in December 2012 established a Trafficking in Persons Task Team. The Task Team has since developed comprehensive policy directives, annexures to charge sheets, training manuals and data collection tools. The NPA has also during the 2013/14 financial year 217 This Programme, initiated by the National Prosecuting Authority, was funded by the European Union and started in 2007. It ran until the end of 2011 after which the South African government continued the anti-trafficking efforts with its partners (Input from the National Prosecuting Authority, January 2015) 110