Enhancing East-African Judicial Systems: Increasing Wildlife Crimes Asset-recovery and Convictions
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £519,836
WHERE Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya
Summary
SFG and the East African Association of Prosecutors (EAAP) will work in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and S.Sudan to:
- Improve wildlife crime legal capacity and convictions
- Tackle corruption
- Recover criminals’ assets
SFG will monitor and review wildlife case performance in all countries, produce baseline surveys of wildlife crime prosecutions in Rwanda & S.Sudan, and develop S.Sudan’s Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) Law & Prosecution Policy, and a regional MLA guide for trans-boundary collaboration on IWT across the region
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.
