Trafficking in persons is real in Puntland; both internal and cross border. These guidelines provide a referral system for assisting victims of trafficking through which both state institutions non-state service providers will cooperate and collaborate to perform their responsibility and commitment to protect and provide right-based assistance to victims of trafficking in Puntland State. The aim of these guidelines is to provide the Puntland state and non-state actors engaged in victim assistance and protection with a standardized approach for assisting victims of trafficking (VoTs) in accordance with international standards. These guidelines only provide minimum standards to which stakeholders ought to adhere to while assisting victims of human trafficking. The United Nations Protocol to Prevent and Suppress Trafficking in Persons; the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air; the IOM Handbook on Direct Assistance for Victims of Trafficking provide a strong basis and foundational reference for these guidelines and therefore concepts and terminologies are adopted in line with those references documents. The implementation of these guidelines will be monitored by the Puntland Counter Trafficking Board (PCTB)