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Being dependent of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (governmental organism who tutelage the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality) it facilitates a boarding, transversal and including vision in terms of knowledge of the problem. This way it´s not circumscribed at only one area of intervention.
With effect, and based on Decree-in-Law no. 202/2006 dated 27th of October, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers is the central department of the Government that has for mission to give support to the Council of Ministers, to the First-Minister and to the other members of the Government integrated organically and to promote the coordination inter-ministerial of the diverse governmental departments.
Since the National Rapporteur is equally the coordinator of the 1st National Plan against Trafficking in Human Beings (2007-2010), it exists therefore a correspondence with the national referral mechanism. The NRM is an instrument with diverse components where we can detach the processes of identification of the victims of trafficking, and the cooperation between the Criminal Police Division and the NGO´s. It is conjugated equally in the creation of a shelter, specialized training, protection and social inclusion of the victims. Thus being, a National Plan against Trafficking in Human Beings is assumed as the most favorable context to establish this NRM.
Therefore, in virtue of the Coordinator of the National Plan being equally the National Rapporteur, such fact will allow to create synergies in the direction to promote a constant improvement of eventual gaps detected in the NRM.
Being dependent of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (governmental organism who tutelage the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality) it facilitates a boarding, transversal and including vision in terms of knowledge of the problem. This way it´s not circumscribed at only one area of intervention.
With effect, and based on Decree-in-Law no. 202/2006 dated 27th of October, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers is the central department of the Government that has for mission to give support to the Council of Ministers, to the First-Minister and to the other members of the Government integrated organically and to promote the coordination inter-ministerial of the diverse governmental departments.
The budgetary incumbencies are supported by endowments proceeding from the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality and from the General Secretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, as stipulated in the Resolution of the Council of Ministers no. 81/2007 dated 22nd of June.
The fact of the National Rapporteur being equally the Coordinator of the 1st National Plan against Trafficking in Human Beings, is assumed as an important aspect. With effect, the coordination of the National Plan is considered as an important instrument of acting in the combat of trafficking, always in narrow joint with the tutelage.