CBATN focuses on preventing internal and external trafficking in women and children at manned and un-manned cross border transit points, transport hubs, and cross border villages along Indo-Nepal border. Some of the major prevention programs initiated by CBATN are:

• Life Guard Center: LGC is a right based cross border monitoring mechanism and an embodiment of integrated partnership between NGO and Police, both dedicated to protect human rights of at risk cross border migrants.

The main focus of the initiative is to reduce significantly the vulnerability of migrants towards abuse, harassment, trafficking and HIV by empowering them through increased access to range of relevant and accurate information, services available and rescue/ provide care/support for  apparent victims trafficked under shadow of migration.

Currently the interventions are carried out in 8 major cross border transit points, 2 major transport hubs covering Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal State.

The following are the major actions carried out through the center:
(a) identifying victims and rescuing
(b) providing medical and legal assistance,
(c) right based repatriation, rehabilitation and reunification,
(d) educating migrants on legal rights and risk involved (trafficking & HIV/AID),
(e) information on safe migration channels,
(f) information of destination points including service providers and services available, and (g) orientation on health care and access to services.

Through rigorous advocacy among the law enforcing agency, we were successful in bringing the police into the forefront of campaign. Very recently the Inspector General of Police, Gorakhpur Zone had come up with an order to establish Anti Trafficking Cell in all the border districts and transit zones. The blue print of the Anti Trafficking cell has been prepared and the process of implementation is on at ground level.  

Till date the center has catered the needs of 39775 cross border migrants and rescued 1587 apparent victims at transit and successfully reintegrated in to their families or rehabilitated in NGO and government run rehabilitation homes.

Social Sentinel Surveillance and no mans land village development: There are many un-manned routes located in villages along no mans land in Indo-Nepal border, which are used to their advantage by traffickers to traffic women and children. The villages along the border are used a stopovers by traffickers by disguising poor and vulnerable villagers. During their stay the traffickers do identify vulnerable families, women and girls and mobilize their families through false promises of good livelihood opportunities in metros.

Given the sensitivity of the issue (women and child trafficking), CBATN and its members decided to approach human trafficking angle through the socio-economic problems within the community. CBATN identified the lack of community level leadership in the locations and alienation of socially backward communities. As the first step towards community participation in development, CBATN established community based organization (Seva Vikas Parishad) with equal representation of caste and gender in particular.

As of today 127 CBOs has been established and graduated into registered societies to spearhead community driven actions on critical issues that influence their development. 

Each CBO has five representatives
(a) Zero violence representative,
(b) women and child rights representative,
(c) health, water and sanitation representative,
(d) entitlement representative and
(e) livelihood representative. 

Currently CBATN and its members are actively involved with these representatives in each gram panchayats addressing violence, women and child rights (particularly education and rights to land and livelihood), social security, microfinance/sustainable agriculture and RCH/HIV. CBATN’s long term strategy is to develop Indo-Nepal border blocks into a zero-violence zone and simultaneously develop pool of knowledge and competence at the community level, on critical issues including human rights, education & health, water and sanitation, livelihood and natural resource management. MSS is moving forward to ensure competitive community driven organizations are in place in the border locations to takeover the ownership of self development in their respective locations.         

• Foundation education program for children at risk:  Community based awareness centers have been established in no mans land villages to provide basic foundation education for children especially girls and drop outs, which can lead to channelising them into formal schools. The education course focuses on reading, writing, math critical thing and problem solving. The education also include life planning & goal setting, values clarification and self awareness, personal safety and protective behavior, adolescent sexuality, child’s rights, substance abuse prevention, sessions on HIV/AIDS prevention and sexually transmitted diseases and various other topics of interest to them. The education given to these girls will naturally get transferred to their mothers and other women in the family, there by improving the over all awareness in the family

Working and living in the streets subject children to many risks and hazards, to their health, their personal safety, social and moral development, HIV and trafficking. CBATN and its members are involved in synchronized development program for at risk children that address education, nutrition and basic amenities, vocational training, social & moral development of children, advocacy for policy reforms and reducing the vulnerability of children towards trafficking & sexual abuse

• No mans land Mapping: Lack of statistics on the extent of migration, vulnerability in Indo-Nepal border areas of Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar limits the government's and NGOs ability to provide appropriate responses/ interventions. To address gaps of reliable information, CBATN and its members undertook mapping of all un manned routes and high risk villages along Indo-Nepal border of Uttar Pradesh.  An automated GIS of 1100 Km long Indo-Nepal border covering Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has been developed. A sample of the GIS is shown above. PLA & micro planning of over400 villages along these routes was also undertaken to identify and locate vulnerable/High risk families, village layout, infrastructure, demography, ethno-linguistic groups, health pattern, wealth and other etc. Community based monitoring systems and roster all migrants and their families are in place to track traffickers and their networks.
  
• Advocacy and networking: The program uses the effective model of Joined-Up-Approach (district level/ state level/national/ regional) with “inside” and “out side” Advocacy/Lobbying in coalitions/alliances of organisations. The model would use mediums like direct communication, Workshops, seminars, brain storming, print & mass media and other medium like drama, rally & petition. The project would ensure that "outside" Advocacy/lobbying activities be coordinated with "inside" lobbying activity, to assure that they make strategic sense in terms of timing, targeting, messages, etc. The organization is also representing in various committees formed by State, central Govt. to reinforce the anti trafficking campaign. Our presence in these committees helps us to influence policies that can benefit the vulnerable women and children and also the victims of trafficking.  

 To improve networking and coordination the organization has also formed Joint Cross Border Coordination Committee in the border districts. This committee represents all key stake holders from cross border districts of India and Nepal. This committee meets once in quarter to review the progress and develop strategies to accelerate the anti trafficking campaign in the region. Moreover the organization has also formed a “Cross Border Anti Trafficking Network” a collision of local NGOs from South Asia. The organization has also formed a Regional Anti trafficking task force, the task force would act as an instrument for coordination to encourage and strengthen co-operation among the countries of south central Asia in order to streamline and accelerate existing efforts to combat human trafficking in the region.