CARDET, the Family and Childcare Centre (Greece), Defence for Children International (Italy), and Centro de Estudos para a Intervenção Social (Portugal) launched in September 2012, the project “IMPACT- Improving and Monitoring Protection systems Against Child Trafficking and exploitation”. The project has been awarded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Home Affairs and its duration is 18 months.

The IMPACT project aims at improving and enhancing child protection and child welfare policies’ impact in better preventing and protecting particularly vulnerable categories of children from trafficking and exploitation.