Both Ghana and Mexico passed domestic violence legislation in 2007. Yet, a decade later, Ghana has only one functioning shelter owned and run by an NGO and another run by the State. Services in these two shelters are generally ad-hoc and uncoordinated. Mexico, on the other hand, has many more shelters – 72 in all – and a coordinated system of service provision for survivors of domestic abuse. In seeking to explain these differences in implementation, a study conducted by the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) in Ghana and FUNDAR in Mexico found that a key difference between the two countries lies in the nature of the women’s caucus in parliament. While Mexico has a system where the women in parliament have entered into a pact to vote as a unit on women-friendly policies, Ghana has a women’s caucus that leaves issues of policy concern to women to the Gender and Children’s Committee of Parliament. In this policy brief, CEGENSA makes a number of recommendations directed at enhancing the likelihood that policies aimed at tackling domestic violence will be implemented in the Ghanaian context.