Transit monitoring is a preventative approach used to identify possible cases of human trafficking while an individual is in transit or before one crosses a border. Transit monitoring is often conducted by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who train staff to identify and intercept suspicious activity. Love Justice International (LJI) is one such NGO that has been conducting transit monitoring for 14 years along the Nepal-India border at approximately 25-30 monitoring stations. In partnership with LJI, we developed a system that uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to help LJI decision-makers evaluate the performance of these stations and make specific operational improvement recommendations. We identified efficient stations, compared rankings of station performance, and recommended strategies to improve efficiency. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of DEA in the anti-human trafficking domain.

翻译：过境监测是一种预防性办法,用于查明在个人过境或过境之前可能发生的人口贩运案件;过境监测通常由非政府组织进行,这些非政府组织培训工作人员,以查明和拦截可疑活动;爱正义国际(LJI)是这样一个非政府组织,在尼泊尔-印度边境大约25-30个监测站沿尼泊尔-印度边界进行了14年的过境监测;我们与LJI合作开发了一个系统,利用数据渗透分析(DEA),帮助LJI决策者评估这些站的运行情况,并提出具体的改进运作的建议;我们确定了高效站,比较站业绩的等级,并提出了提高效率的战略建议;据我们所知,这是DEA在打击人口贩运领域的首次应用。