INNOVATIONS
BBA is known for its innovative and multifaceted initiatives and campaigns that target the abolition of trafficking and forced labour.
Victims’ Assistance Database - A BBA initiative
BBA was first in initiating an organised and standardized approach to designing and developing a database for child labour in 2008. There was no predecessor to fall back on for reference and the scattered thoughts were painfully collated to finally come up with the present version that encapsulates the entire life cycle of children in need of care and protection, with special focus on child labour. The life cycle starts with the identification of child labour and goes on to capture complaints lodged with legal authorities, raid and rescue operations, short term and long term rehabilitation and case studies of the victims. Over 200 parameters are recorded for each child and in October 2013, the database comprised information on over 13,000 child/bonded laborers. This also includes information on