You're right to frame it as a limited resources question. It would be far more effective to create an office within the government charged with both intelligence gathering and the implementation of programs that will directly help trafficking victims and apprehend offenders. That would be a better use of the time.
In the ideal world, you would also have a national rapporteur, but as you point out, those countries don't have that. Their intelligence-gathering functions, though, are extremely high and effective.
The one that I can mention—