Irregular migration and human trafficking especially of youths and children remain a concern in Edo State. The push and pull factors include poverty aggravated by unemployment, a high rate of inflation, and the devaluation of the naira. Many youths due to greed, peer pressure and ignorance of the knowledge of migration protocols are often eager to travel to foreign countries, especially Europe, thus making hasty decisions; preferring to risk irregular migration through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea rather than remain in poverty among others. Recent trends have also shown that traffickers exploit the lack of knowledge of migration protocols to prey on the vulnerability of their victims. They obtain fake travel documents for their victims, aid their travels successfully to Europe and then subject them to various exploitations. Technological advancement has worsened the situation as traffickers also use social media platforms, posting fake job adverts to lure their victims, especially young people. Uromi JDPCI has over the years made considerable efforts to address these issues through awareness creation campaign, engaging vulnerable households in skill acquisition and economic empowerment to reduce their susceptibility to human traffickers, dialoguing with communities to forge local solutions and way forward in curbing human trafficking and irregular migration and also engaging with the government to create local government response unit to the issue. Efforts have to be intensified by all concerned agencies to step up awareness creation and provide economic alternatives to vulnerable households as traffickers are constantly changing their mode of operations coupled with the increasing inflation and hardship in the country. Sexual and gender-based violence, and child early and forced marriage (SGBV/CEFM) Increased poverty has led to rising cases of sexual and gender-based violence and child early and forced marriages in the society. Poverty in the family makes the children vulnerable to abuse, neglect, abandonment or being forced into early marriage by those who are supposed to provide for their needs. The results of these include rape, teenage pregnancy, and sometimes vesicovaginal fistula (VVF). Edo state, like most other states is patriarchal by social norms. These norms have encouraged the practice of silence in the midst of spousal abuses, ill treatment of widows, child abuse and neglect, sexual assault, female disinheritance and the likes. What is more, most of the victims are economically dependent, hence are not able to fight for justice. There is no alternative welfare system put in place by government to address the psychosocial, medical and legal needs of survivors. The social works departments in the LGAs saddled with the responsibilities to tackle issues of SGBV and CEFM are not effective. Personnel with the technical knowhow to address the issues through ADR are limited. The cost of litigation is high and the security agents with the onus to collate evidence and transfer cases for prosecution do not do so with transparency, accountability, and due diligence. These factors and more lead to the poor management of cases and few victims of these violations who had the courage to speak up in the face of violation have suffered stigmatization. Uromi JDPCI through previous interventions have set up community structures to address issues around SGBV/ CEFM. These structures include community human rights clubs and adolescent human rights clubs in schools across the Senatorial District and the participants were trained on recognizing SGBV/CEFM cases, how to conduct dialogues and sensitizations in communities of the LGAs. Going forward, there is the need to intensify efforts and deploy new strategies to effectively address the issues around SGBV/ CEFM. These efforts and strategies include the identification of new partners; strengthening the capacity of new and existing partners; training of personnel whose duties cut across serving justice for survivors of SGBV/CEFM, the establishment of co-ordination links where cases are tracked and effectively managed; strategic advocacies; meaningful dialogues; sensitization campaigns using both the mainstream media and social media; as well as strategic empowerment of victims/caregivers of child victims of SGBV/CEFM.