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The Four-pillar approach provides a comprehensive framework of addressing trafficking in persons by looking at both the causes and consequences of exploitation. It focuses on Prevention, Protection, Prosecution, and Partnerships. Each pillar is essential to create a holistic, sustainable, and victim-centred response.
Prevention is the first line of defence against trafficking in persons. It focuses on reducing vulnerability, increasing awareness, and building strong systems that protect individuals and communities from exploitation.
Prevention efforts include public awareness campaigns in communities, schools, and media platforms, ensuring that people understand the risks of trafficking and how to stay safe. Vulnerable groups are empowered with information by promoting education, livelihood opportunities, and safe migration practices, helping them make informed decisions that reduce their risk of being trafficked.
The capacity of law enforcement and frontline officers, Civil Society Organisations (CSO’s), community leaders, and Faith-Based Organisations (FBO’s) is built to ensure they can identify trafficking indicators, refer victims, and respond appropriately. Policy advocacy is another key area, the need to support strong laws, child protection frameworks, and social safeguards that enhance national resilience is emphasised.
Prevention is a shared responsibility, government agencies, CSOs, FBOs, community structures, the private sector, and international partners all play a role in building safer environments. Through research, monitoring, and collaboration, the general public remains informed of emerging trends and adjust strategies to protect at-risk populations.
By spreading knowledge, strengthening systems, and reducing the conditions that enable trafficking, prevention helps stop exploitation before it starts and contributes to safer, empowered, and resilient communities.
Protection focuses on safeguarding the rights, dignity, and wellbeing of victims of trafficking in persons. Working closely with the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, the Anti-Human Trafficking Department (AHTD) ensures that victims are identified, rescued, and they have access to comprehensive support services such as shelter, medical care, counselling, legal assistance, and reintegration.
This is so that a victim-centred approach is upheld, ensuring compassion, confidentiality and respect throughout the recovery journey. Through coordination with shelters, health institutions, law enforcement agencies and social welfare services, the provision of safe pathways for healing, empowerment, and the restoration of hope is achieved.
Protection of victims of trafficking is essential to restoring dignity, preventing re-victimisation, and giving them the confidence to rebuild their lives and seek justice.
Prosecution is central to ensuring accountability and strengthening deterrence. Working closely with the Zambia Police, Department of Immigration, National Prosecution Authority, the Judiciary and all other institutions in the Criminal Justice System, investigations and prosecution of trafficking in person’s cases is coordinated.
The role of AHTD includes, coordination of investigations on trafficking in persons cases within and outside the country, case management and training for officers to conduct investigations on trafficking in persons cases. Successful prosecution not only holds traffickers responsible but also reinforces public trust in the Criminal Justice System and reduces future exploitation by dismantling criminal networks.
Prosecution ensures that those who exploit others face consequences and supports a justice system that protects vulnerable populations.
The Partnership Pillar recognizes that combating human trafficking requires strong, coordinated collaboration across multiple sectors. No single institution can address the complex social, economic, legal, and security challenges of trafficking alone. Through strategic partnerships, the Anti–Human Trafficking Department brings together government agencies, civil society organizations, the private sector, international partners, and community stakeholders to protect vulnerable populations, prevent exploitation, and support survivors.
We engage organizations across sectors including law enforcement, social services, education, technology, health, faith-based institutions, and private companies—to create unified action against trafficking.
The Department works to enhance coordination between national institutions and local community structures. This ensures that prevention programs, victim support services, referrals, and reporting mechanisms are accessible and effective at all levels.
Partnerships support training, resource sharing, and knowledge exchange to improve the ability of partners to identify trafficking, respond to cases, and protect vulnerable individuals.
We work closely with organizations that provide shelter, psychosocial support, legal assistance, reintegration services, and economic empowerment programs to ensure survivors receive comprehensive, dignified, and trauma-informed care.
Strategic partnerships help mobilize financial and material resources that strengthen national anti-trafficking initiatives, ensure sustainability, and support innovation.
Human trafficking is a cross-border, organized crime that exploits vulnerabilities. Effective prevention and response require:
Partnerships help Zambia build a strong, integrated system capable of protecting its citizens, supporting survivors, and dismantling trafficking networks.
The Anti–Human Trafficking Department is committed to fostering transparent, ethical, and impactful partnerships that uphold human rights, strengthen national security, and safeguard the dignity of every person in Zambia.
Organizations interested in collaborating are encouraged to fill in the partnership request form provided.
The Anti-Human Trafficking Department was established by the Anti-Human Trafficking (Amendment) Act No. 16 of 2022. The Department was fully operationalized on 1st March 2024.
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