Community Initiatives are a space for GLC members to share their expertise around a topic they are passionate about with the wider GLC community. 

The member-led initiatives can run as standalone events or as longer projects which might take the form of workshops, webinars, discussion groups or other creative formats that engage the GLC community. 

Current Initiatives

• ARAT a Community Initiative of the GLC, is an annual conference that brings together speakers on topics with relevance to the Asia region and members of organisations from across the region for networking, knowledge sharing and learning.

• Survivor Organisation Mapping, a research project globally surveying survivor-led organisations to define and explore their role in the movement led 

• Lifemap Community Initiative: The Global Learning Community and EverFree have partnered together in the Lifemap Community Initiative, a network of innovation partners from 7 organisations piloting the Freedom Lifemap. The Freedom Lifemap is a participatory, strengths-based need assessment that puts the power back in the hands of survivors so they can identify their strengths and vulnerabilities, access the support they need, and attain lasting freedom. Upon intake into an anti-trafficking support program, survivors assess their strengths and vulnerabilities across six dimensions. The tool aims to help both survivors and organisations providing aftercare services in understanding and improving survivor care services.

  The GLC community has been supportive of this project since the first Coffee Corner Call led by Kelsey Morgan, the co-founder of EverFree and a GLC Equity Partner. From this call GLC members were made aware of the project and became involved in the pilot. The objective of the network is to create a space for learning, growth, and development to improve the quality, effectiveness, efficiency, and inclusion of survivors in anti-human trafficking work.

  For more information about the Freedom Lifemap please contact: krishamae@everfree.org

Past Initiatives

•  9 GLC Members signed a joint letter to the US Department of State Office to Monitor & Combat Trafficking in Persons on trafficking in key transit points.

• A monitoring and evaluation short course was held for three sessions.

• The Wordsmith Group of GLC Members developed a GLC tagline for the website. This group collaboratively sharpens concepts developed by the broader GLC for internal and external communications, policy and practice. The group draws from their collective experiences as survivors, coalition leaders, frontline practitioners and academics.

• The Burnout Resource Group held a group call to identify and collate relevant burnout resources for the community. A blog post summarising the findings of the meeting and material review was published in the GLC newsletter.

• The GLC Tech platform project was established to explore platforms and systems that could be used, across the GLC, to house our resources, our directory and people library, and our community projects. The international group researched global markets to identify products that would enhance the GLC community’s experience, data sharing and networks.