Following the Money II: IWT Capacity-Building, East and Southern Africa
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £254,900
WHERE Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya
Summary
This project addresses an insufficiently considered aspect of the fight against IWT. This concerns the lack of capacity to use financial-intelligence tools – techniques of proven value in investigating high-level organised criminals, including those driving IWT. This project builds capacity to detect and prosecute wildlife-linked money-laundering – which stalls development and entrenches poverty. It does so by expanding multi-agency training provided in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda under IWT Challenge Fund Round 2, and extending research and training to Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.
DLA Piper, Standard Chartered Bank, INTERPOL, Environmental Investigation Agency, Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Strathmore University Law School, Space for Giants
Over 600 arrests and more than 500 convictions in wildlife crime since 2017, alongside a decline in ivory trafficking cases and an increase in elephant and rhino populations.
