End Exploitation. Restore Dignity. Create Opportunity.
We work across prevention, survivor reintegration, livelihood, and systems change to help vulnerable communities rebuild with dignity and resilience.
Why NGI Exists
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Why NGI Exists ---
Across Ethiopia and beyond, people continue to face trafficking, unsafe migration, forced labour, and emerging forms of exploitation, including forced criminality in cyber scam compounds.
Nigat Global Initiative was founded to build survivor-centered and evidence-driven responses that restore dignity, strengthen livelihoods, and improve the systems meant to protect vulnerable communities.
Our Impact : building survivor-centered responses across prevention, livelihood, reintegration, and systems change.
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650,000+ People Reached Through Prevention Campaigns
Awareness campaigns on trafficking risks, safe migration, and exploitation prevention.
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25+ Survivors Safely Repatriated
Supporting return and recovery from scam compounds and exploitative environments in Southeast Asia.
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76+ Survivors Supported
Providing reintegration, psychosocial support, referrals, and case management services.
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9 Policy & Systems Engagements
Advancing prevention, survivor protection, cross-border coordination, and reintegration frameworks.
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3 Research & Evidence Initiatives
Generating survivor-informed insights to improve policy and protection systems.
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44 Cases Documented
Strengthening evidence, prevention efforts, and response systems on trafficking and forced criminality.
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300+ Youth Reached Through Safe Migration Education
Six rounds of intensive youth education sessions conducted in Addis Ababa focused on trafficking risks, informed migration decisions, and resilience.
What We do
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NGI works across prevention, survivor reintegration, livelihood, and systems change to address trafficking, unsafe migration, and exploitation.
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We work to prevent trafficking and unsafe migration through community awareness, youth engagement, media partnerships, and safer migration education. NGI helps individuals and communities make informed decisions before exploitation occurs.
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NGI supports survivors of trafficking and exploitation through psychosocial support, case management, skills development, and livelihood pathways that help individuals rebuild their lives with dignity, resilience, and long-term stability.
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We strengthen systems that protect vulnerable communities through policy engagement, research, cross-sector collaboration, media engagement, and advocacy aimed at improving survivor protection and accountability mechanisms.
Across Ethiopia and beyond, trafficking and exploitation are becoming more organized, more digital, and more global. From unsafe migration routes to cyber scam compounds in Southeast Asia, vulnerable communities are facing increasingly complex risks.
At NGI, we work to prevent exploitation before it happens, support survivors to rebuild their lives with dignity, and strengthen systems so protection is not the exception, but the standard.
We believe survivors are leaders, communities are powerful, and lasting change begins with local realities.
WHY THIS MATTERS NOW?
News & Insights
Field updates, insights, and reflections from NGI’s work across prevention, survivor reintegration, migration, and systems change.
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Together with the Ministry of Labour and Skills and members of the Media Advisory Group on Migration and Trafficking (MAG-MT), NGI brought together media professionals to strengthen informed reporting on migration, trafficking risks, and public awareness.
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NGI, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Justice National Partnership Coalition, convened a national consultation bringing together justice institutions, security actors, UN agencies, and civil society to examine the growing risks of cyber-enabled trafficking and forced criminality affecting Ethiopians.
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NGI established the Media Advisory Group on Migration and Trafficking (MAG-MT), bringing together national media leaders to strengthen ethical, evidence-based reporting on migration and trafficking.
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NGI launched the RR-TIP Project to strengthen prevention, survivor reintegration, and coordinated responses to trafficking in Ethiopia, in partnership with government and key stakeholders.
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At the UNODC Constructive Dialogue, NGI brought frontline insights from Ethiopia to shape global discussions on migrant protection, trafficking, and transnational organized crime.
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Responding to the 2025 TIP Report, NGI highlights urgent protection gaps and calls for bold, survivor-centered action to strengthen prevention, reintegration, and justice systems.
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NGI launched Siket Ethiopia to lead survivor-centered reintegration for Ethiopians returning from scam centers, providing psychosocial support, livelihoods, and pathways to dignity.
Nigat means Dawn!
Illuminating Hope, Dignity, & Opportunity.
In Amharic, “Nigat” means dawn — a new beginning after darkness.
We stand with survivors and vulnerable communities to restore dignity, strengthen livelihoods, and build pathways toward long-term freedom and resilience.
We believe lasting change begins locally, grows collectively, and protects human dignity at every level.