Is Ghana’s Law Against Human Trafficking a Success?

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dc.contributor.authorMohammed, A.K.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-27T09:25:42Z
dc.date.available2022-04-27T09:25:42Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article assessed the success or otherwise of the Ghana Human Trafficking Act (GHTA), 2005, in curbing human trafficking. On the basis of interviews and secondary information, the assessment was done along the program, process, and politics dimensions. The evidence showed that GHTA achieved fairly its program objectives. However, failures occurred in all the phases of the Act’s enactment process. In particular, agenda setting suffered from definitional ambiguity surrounding human trafficking and implementation was mired by resource constraints and financial impropriety. The findings also revealed that an integrated model of human trafficking has greater explanatory power than a single one, but there is inattention to this in extant literature. The article concludes that lessons should be drawn from the specific type as well as the overall program, process, and political failures of the Act. As in this case, an exclusive focus on technical learning to the neglect of potential process and political failures has increased rather than decreased the chances of policy failure. Moreover, the accent on legislative bans to the neglect of other interventions is futile.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0734016820971029
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/37982
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjecthuman traffickingen_US
dc.subjectpolicyen_US
dc.subjectsuccessen_US
dc.subjectfailuresen_US
dc.subjectprogramen_US
dc.subjectprocessen_US
dc.subjectpoliticalen_US
dc.subjectdimensionsen_US
dc.titleIs Ghana’s Law Against Human Trafficking a Success?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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