Mafaz Global Solutions (MGS) provides comprehensive services to prevent human trafficking and strengthen protection systems for people exposed to exploitation and abuse across the Horn of Africa. Human trafficking is a grave violation of human rights that affects vulnerable populations, particularly youth, women, and children, who are subjected to forced labor, sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, and other forms of modern slavery. Our services are designed to address the root causes of trafficking, improve identification and referral mechanisms, strengthen the capacity of relevant actors, and build protection systems that safeguard vulnerable people and hold perpetrators accountable. We work with governments, international organizations, civil society, communities, and survivors to design and implement responses that are rights-based, evidence-driven, and locally owned. Our approach recognizes that trafficking thrives where there is poverty, conflict, displacement, lack of opportunity, and weak protection systems, and that addressing trafficking requires coordinated action across communities, institutions, and borders.
Prevention and Awareness Services
MGS designs and implements prevention and awareness campaigns that inform communities, potential victims, and stakeholders about the risks of human trafficking. Our services include community awareness sessions and outreach campaigns, radio and digital information platforms, printed and visual awareness materials, peer-to-peer information networks, engagement with religious and community leaders, school-based awareness programs, and awareness campaigns targeting families and youth at risk. We serve potential victims of trafficking, youth at risk, women and girls, displaced populations, and communities in trafficking-prone areas. All information is culturally appropriate, linguistically accessible, and tailored to the needs of different audiences, ensuring that communities have the knowledge they need to recognize trafficking, protect themselves, and seek help.
Community Engagement Services
MGS works with communities to address the drivers of human trafficking and reduce vulnerability to exploitation. We engage community leaders, youth groups, women’s associations, and local institutions to raise awareness, build resilience, and create protective environments that reduce the risk of trafficking. Our services include community dialogue and engagement, youth empowerment and local opportunity creation, livelihood support and skills development, engagement of community and religious leaders, community-based early warning and protection systems, local awareness and prevention campaigns, support for youth-led initiatives, and community mobilization against trafficking. We serve communities in trafficking-prone areas, youth and women’s groups, community leaders and local institutions, and local civil society organizations. Community engagement is designed to be locally owned and responsive to context-specific needs, ensuring that interventions are relevant, credible, and sustainable.
Capacity Strengthening Services
MGS strengthens the capacity of institutions, frontline actors, and community organizations to prevent and respond to human trafficking. We provide training, technical assistance, and institutional support to government agencies, law enforcement, border officials, social workers, civil society organizations, and community-based organizations. Our services include training for law enforcement and border officials on victim identification, capacity development for civil society organizations, institutional strengthening for government agencies, development of standard operating procedures for victim identification and referral, support for referral pathways and protection mechanisms, training on trauma-informed care and survivor support, support for coordination mechanisms, and mentorship and technical assistance. We serve government institutions and officials, law enforcement and border agencies, social service providers, civil society organizations, and community-based organizations. Capacity strengthening is designed to improve coordination, enhance skills, and build systems that can effectively prevent trafficking and protect victims.
Identification and Protection Services
MGS supports the identification of trafficking victims and the provision of protection and assistance. We work to strengthen identification mechanisms, improve referral systems, and ensure that victims receive appropriate care and support. Our services include development of victim identification tools and protocols, training on identification and referral, support for referral pathways, access to appropriate services for victims, community-based support mechanisms, protection awareness, coordination among relevant stakeholders, and support for survivors of trafficking. We serve victims of trafficking, including women, children, and men, unaccompanied and separated children, and other at-risk populations. Our approach is rights-based, survivor-centered, and trauma-informed, ensuring that the needs and rights of survivors are at the center of all interventions.
Stakeholder Coordination Services
MGS facilitates coordination among stakeholders working on anti-trafficking in the Horn of Africa. We support information-sharing, joint planning, and collaborative action to ensure that anti-trafficking responses are coherent, effective, and protection-focused. Our services include facilitation of coordination meetings and platforms, information-sharing and knowledge management, joint planning and programme alignment, support for referral pathways and service coordination, engagement with regional and international networks, cross-border coordination and cooperation, documentation of good practices and lessons learned, and support for national and regional strategies. We serve governments and institutions, UN agencies and international organizations, civil society and community-based organizations, and regional and international networks. Coordination is essential to avoid duplication, maximize resources, and ensure that interventions reach those most in need.
Research, Advocacy and Policy Support Services
MGS generates evidence on human trafficking dynamics, trends, and protection risks in the Horn of Africa. Our research informs programme design, policy development, and advocacy at local, national, and regional levels. We use qualitative and quantitative methods to produce timely, actionable evidence that supports decision-making and improves anti-trafficking outcomes. Our services include research on trafficking dynamics and trends, policy analysis and development support, legal and institutional assessments, evidence generation and dissemination, advocacy for policy reform, support for national and regional strategies, knowledge products and dissemination, and engagement with policymakers and stakeholders. We serve governments and policy makers, international organizations and donors, research institutions and universities, and civil society organizations. We also provide policy support to governments and institutions seeking to strengthen legal frameworks, strategies, and systems to prevent trafficking and protect victims.
Protection and Assistance Services
MGS provides protection-oriented services for vulnerable migrants and victims of trafficking. We work to strengthen protection mechanisms, improve access to services, and ensure that victims of trafficking receive the assistance they need. Our services include protection mechanism strengthening, referral systems development, access to appropriate services, community-based support, protection awareness, coordination among relevant stakeholders, support for vulnerable migrants in transit, and assistance for women, children, and other at-risk groups. We serve victims of trafficking, vulnerable migrants in transit, women and girls, unaccompanied and separated children, and other at-risk populations. Our approach is rights-based, survivor-centered, and community-driven, ensuring that the needs and rights of survivors are at the center of all interventions.
Service Outcomes
Through our anti-trafficking services, MGS aims to achieve increased awareness of trafficking risks and prevention measures, strengthened protection systems for trafficking victims and survivors, improved identification, referral, and assistance mechanisms, enhanced capacity of institutions and frontline actors to prevent trafficking, strengthened legal and policy frameworks to prevent trafficking, improved protection and assistance for victims of trafficking, enhanced evidence base to inform anti-trafficking policy and programming, and reduced vulnerability of individuals to trafficking and exploitation. These outcomes are achieved through integrated, evidence-based, and protection-centered interventions that respond to the specific needs and realities of the Horn of Africa region.
Geographic Coverage
MGS delivers anti-trafficking services across the Horn of Africa, with operations in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and South Sudan. In Somalia, our focus includes awareness, community engagement, capacity strengthening, and coordination. In Ethiopia, we focus on prevention, awareness, research, policy support, and community resilience. In Djibouti, our services include transit migration support, coordination, capacity development, and protection. In South Sudan, we focus on community engagement, awareness, capacity strengthening, and policy support. This regional presence enables MGS to address trafficking challenges in a comprehensive and coordinated manner, recognizing that trafficking networks operate across borders and require cross-border responses.
Why Choose MGS
Mafaz Global Solutions brings deep local expertise and knowledge of Horn of Africa trafficking dynamics to every engagement. Our work is rights-based, grounded in a commitment to human rights, protection, and dignity for all people. We are evidence-driven, ensuring that research and data inform all interventions. We are partnership-oriented, working collaboratively with governments, UN agencies, NGOs, and communities. Our approach is protection-centered, with a focus on reducing vulnerability and preventing exploitation. We prioritize sustainable impact through capacity building for long-term change. We remain adaptive and responsive to rapidly changing trafficking dynamics across the region.
Contact Us
For inquiries about our prevention of human trafficking services, please contact Mafaz Global Solutions at info@mafazglobal.org or through our website at https://mafazglobal.org. We welcome partnerships and collaboration with governments, international organizations, donors, and communities committed to preventing human trafficking and protecting vulnerable populations in the Horn of Africa.
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