The IIJ - Uganda

1. Program: Investigation and Prosecution Counter-Terrorism Academic Curriculum (IP CTAC) / Ugandan Practitioners Anglophone Edition
2. Date: 13/03/2024- 24/03/2024
3. Funder: UNOPS
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Description: The course aims to deepen the skills, knowledge and networks of mid to senior level who either have current responsibilities for counterterrorism cases or are likely to have such responsibilities in the near future. This course is set to bring together investigators, prosecutors and examining magistrates from Uganda.

The IIJ - Uganda

1. Program: Regional Workshop on Enhancing the Prosecution of Terrorism-Related Sexual Violence
2. Date: 14/02/2023 - 16/02/2023
3. Funder: Australia
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Description: Capacity-building workshop to discuss the recognition and understanding of Sexual Terrorism Prosecutions, introduction of cumulative prosecutions for sexual violence crimes, study of different elements of the crimes of sexual violence in light of different national jurisdictions and enhancing the understanding of various prosecutions of sexual violence in statutory, communal and or religious tribunals.

Hedayah- Tunisia

GCERF - Tunisia

GCERF - Tunisia

GCERF - Tunisia

The IIJ - Togo

1. Program: Investigation and Prosecution Counter-Terrorism Academic Curriculum (IP CTAC) / Fifth Francophone West African and Sahel Edition
2. Date: 10/06/2024 - 14/06/2024
3. Funder: USA
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Description: This course aims to deepen the skills, knowledge and networks of mid to senior level who either have current responsibilities for counterterrorism cases or are likely to have such responsibilities in the near future. This course is set to bring together investigators, prosecutors and investigating judges from Francophone West African countries

The IIJ - Tanzania

1. Program: CT PHARE Capacity Building Activity - Human Rights-Based Decision-Making Model (DMM) – Anglophone African countries
2. Date: 21/05/2024 - 24/05/2024
3. Funder: EU
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Description: The activity strengthened the understanding and accountability of the Human Rights-Based Decision-Making Model by justice practitioners and policymakers. This activity will also assist with the development of an IIJ Tool Kit for practitioners and policymakers on the use of Human Rights-Based DMM in counter-terrorism operations

GCERF - Somalia

GCERF - Somalia

GCERF - Somalia

GCERF - Somalia

Hedayah- Nigeria

1. Program: Supporting Nigeria’s Office of National Security Advisor (ONSA) on National Action Plans for Countering Extremism
2. Date: 09/01/2024
3. Funder EU, STRIVE II Global Program
4. Thematic Intervention: Counterterrorism policies and strategic communications
5. Description: In cooperation with Nigeria’s Office of the National Security Adviser, Hedayah is developing a three-day workshop aimed at reviewing the Nigerian Policy Framework and National Action Plans. The workshop, aimed to be held in September 2024, seeks to address evolving security threats, incorporate lessons learned, and develop a comprehensive strategic communication plan to enhance the effectiveness of Nigeria's
6. counter-extremism efforts.

Hedayah- Nigeria

1. Program: Supporting Families in Countering Extremism and Violent Extremism
2. Date: 05/01/2024
3. Partner: Neem Institute
4. Funder EU
5. Thematic Intervention: De-radicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration
6. Description: In partnership with Neem Institute and funded by the European Union under the STRIVE 2 Global program, Hedayah conducted a series of National-led Training workshops in Northeast Nigeria (Borno and Maiduguri). These workshops were built under the “Supporting Families in Countering Extremism and Violent Extremism” program, which aims to assist in the disengagement, rehabilitation, and reintegration of individuals radicalized or recruited into extremism and violent extremism. Two workshops were conducted to support 15 civil society organizations with more the 25 participants. To ensure sustainability of the program and national ownership, Hedayah provided mentorship, support, and cemented the establishment of a pool of national trainers building their capacity to continue to carry and transfer the program’s knowledge to other practitioners and relevant stakeholders.

The IIJ- Nigeria

GCERF - Nigeria

GCERF - Nigeria

GCERF - Nigeria

GCERF - Niger

GCERF - Niger

Hedayah - Mozambique

GCERF - Mozambique

GCERF - Mozambique

GCERF - Mozambique

Hedayah- Morocco

1. Program: Supporting the Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Women
2. Date: 2024 - 2025
3. Partner: Mohammed VI Foundation
4. Funder: UK Embassy in Morocco
5. Thematic Intervention: De-radicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration
6. Description: Hedayah continues to partner with Mohammed VI Foundation to support the reintegration of women returnees vulnerable or exposed to extremism and violent extremism. In 2023-2024, Hedayah provided capacity building training to 21 social workers and distributed 29 mini grants for income-generating activities to support the reintegration process of women affected by extremism. In 2025, Hedayah will keep working with the foundation on effective civil society engagement to operationalize successful reintegration.

The IIJ- Morocco

1. Program: CT PHARE Capacity Building Activity - Oversight and Accountability Mechanisms: Roles and Responsibilities in Countering Terrorism (Francophone African countries)
2. Date: 03/10/2023 - 05/10/2023
3. Funder: EU
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Description: The activity’s goal is to enhance the oversight and accountability mechanisms in counterterrorism operations in Francophone African countries. The capacity building activity will consist of working sessions and interactive discussions to address gaps, vulnerabilities and good practices in the national judicial responses to human rights violations in the context of counter-terrorism. Participants will involve justice practitioners (prosecutors, judges, defence counsels and law enforcement), representatives of National Human Rights and Ombudsman Institutions, as well as Civil Society Organisations.

GCERF - Mauritania

1. Program: Projet de Promotion du Modèle mauritanien de la PEV et Soutien à la résilience des communes SELAM
2. Date: 2023 - 2026
3. Funded: ECO-Développement (ECODEV)
4. Thematic Intervention: De-radicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration
5. Description: https://www.gcerf.org/mauritania/

GCERF - Mauritania

1. Program: Actions Citoyennes pour la Paix en Mauritanie (ACP)
2. Date: 2023 - 2026
3. Funded: Initiatives pour le Développement (ID)
4. Thematic Intervention: De-radicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration
5. Description: https://www.gcerf.org/mauritania/

GCERF - Mauritania

1. Program: Projet NAJAH d'insertion professionnelle des jeunes vulnérables pour la résilience communautaire dans le Hodh El Chargui et le Hodh El Gharbi
2. Date: 2023 - 2026
3. Funded: Appui au Développement Intégré des Communautés Rurales (ADICOR)
4. Thematic Intervention: De-radicalization, rehabilitation, and reintegration
5. Description: https://www.gcerf.org/mauritania/

GCERF -Mali

GCERF -Mali

GCERF -Mali

The IIJ - Malawi

1. Program: IIJ Evaluation Workshop Counter-Terrorism Strategy Development and Multi-Agency Investigation Capacity-Building in Malawi
2. Date: 06/02/2023 - 07/02/2023
3. Funder: UK
4. Thematic Intervention: Counterterrorism policies and strategic communications
5. Decription: Evaluation workshop to assess the success in implementing the counter-terrorism strategy, measure knowledge retention, application of learning and skills from training to the workplace and to make further recommendations for current and future training programmes

The IIJ - Malawi

1. Program: Regional Workshop on Enhancing the Investigation of Terrorism-Related Sexual Violence for Countries of Common-Law Legal Systems
2. Date: 01/02/2023 - 03/02/2023
3. Funder: UK
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Decription: Capacity-building workshop focused on Sexual Terrorism Investigative techniques, enhancing victim interviewing techniques, evidence gathering and analysis, forensic investigations, and using case studies from conflict zones to mainstream the successful investigation of Sexual Violence crimes in a survivor-centric approach.

The IIJ - Kenya

1. Program: CT PHARE Capacity Building Activity - Oversight and Accountability Mechanisms: Roles and Responsibilities in Countering Terrorism (Anglophone African countries)
2. Date: 06/06/2023 - 09/06/2023
3. Funder: EU
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Description: The activity’s goal is to enhance the oversight and accountability mechanisms in counterterrorism operations from Anglophone East and West African countries. The capacity building activity consisted of working sessions and interactive discussions to address gaps, vulnerabilities and good practices in the national judicial responses to human rights violations in the context of counter-terrorism

The IIJ - Kenya

1. Program: IIJ Global Central Authorities Initiative: National Consultation for Somali Stakeholders on Building Strong Procedural Mechanisms for Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA)
2. Date: 04/03/2023 - 07/03/2023
3. Funder: Canada
4. Thematic Intervention: Domestic, regional, and international cooperation in counterterrorism
5. Description: The IIJ continues supporting the Somali Federal Government with its efforts to draft a full-fledged international judicial cooperation law. The IIJ will assist the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Somalia in hiring a law drafting team, a comparative law specialist and organize an initial drafting workshop which will also serve as a consultation of key federal institutions in Somalia.

The IIJ - Kenya

1. Program: IIJ Global Central Authorities Initiative: National Consultation for Somali Stakeholders on Building Strong Procedural Mechanisms for Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA)
2. Date: 30/05/2023 - 01/06/2023
3. Funder: Canada
4. Thematic Intervention: Domestic, regional, and international cooperation in counterterrorism
5. Description: This consultation aims to build on themes and processes discussed during the national workshop of November 2022 and addressed in the resulting Road Map, the Somali working group will identify concrete ways to translate Road Map recommendations into reality by integrating them into existing institutional, financial, planning, political and legal frameworks and strategies related to MLA and counter-terrorism.

The IIJ - Kenya

1. Program: IIJ Global Central Authorities Initiative: National Consultation for Kenyan Stakeholders on Building Strong Procedural Mechanisms for Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA)
2. Date: 12/04/2023 - 14/04/2023
3. Funder: Canada
4. Thematic Intervention: Domestic, regional, and international cooperation in counterterrorism
5. Description: This consultation aims to build on themes and processes discussed during the national workshop of November 2022 and addressed in the resulting Road Map, the Kenyan working group will identify concrete ways to translate Road Map recommendations into reality by integrating them into existing institutional, financial, planning, political and legal frameworks and strategies related to MLA and counter-terrorism.

The IIJ - Kenya

1. Program: IIJ Global Central Authorities Initiative: National Workshop for Somalia Stakeholders on Building Strong Procedural Mechanisms for Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA)
2. Date: 06/02/2023 - 09/02/2023
3. Funder: Canada
4. Thematic Intervention:Domestic, regional, and international cooperation in counterterrorism)
5. Description: The activity strengthened the understanding and accountability of the Human Rights-Based Decision-Making Model by justice practitioners and policymakers. This activity will also assist with the development of an IIJ Tool Kit for practitioners and policymakers on the use of Human Rights-Based DMM in counter-terrorism operations.

GCERF- Chad

GCERF - Burkina Faso

1. Program: Prévenir la radicalisation et l’extrémisme violent par l’amélioration de la résilience des communautés locales dans les régions du Sahel et du Nord (Projet Prévenir)
2. Date: 2022 - 2024
3. Funded: Union Fraternelle des Croyants de Dori (UFC-Dori)
4. Thematic Intervention: Resilience-building for preventing violent extremsim conducive to terrorism (PVE)
5. Decription: https://www.gcerf.org/burkina-faso/

GCERF - Burkina Faso

1. Program: Projet de Renforcement de l’Entente et de la Prévention de l’Extrémisme Violent (PREPEV)
2. Date: 2023 - 2025
3. Funded: Réseau de Communication sur le Pastoralisme
4. Thematic Intervention: Resilience-building for preventing violent extremsim conducive to terrorism (PVE)
5. Decription: https://www.gcerf.org/burkina-faso/

GCERF - Burkina Faso

1. Program: Protection des enfants à risque et enfants victimes de violence dans le cadre de la prévention de l'extrémisme violent dans les régions du Nord et du Sahel au Burkina Faso
2. Date: 2023 - 2025
3. Funded: Association KEOOGO
4. Thematic Intervention: Resilience-building for preventing violent extremsim conducive to terrorism (PVE)
5. Decription: https://www.gcerf.org/burkina-faso/

The IIJ- Burkina Faso

1. Program: Regional workshop on enhancing the prosecution of sexual violence linked to terrorism in Burkina Faso
2. Date: 22/05/2024 - 24/05/2024
3. Funder: OPDAT
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses)
5. Description: This workshop aims to engage experts on legislative overview of sexual violence crimes in CT context; managing victim- and evidence- related challenges unique to terrorism-related sexual violence, as well as working on successful models for the prosecution of the nexus between sexual violence and organized crime in the context of terrorism.

1. Program: IIJ Juvenile Justice Initiative: Central Africa Subregional Workshop on Justice for Children in a Counter-Terrorism Context
2. Date: 04/12/2023 - 06/12/2023
3. Funder: USA
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses)
5. Description: In regions of Africa hard hit by insurgent activity, children are increasingly affected as victims, witnesses and alleged perpetrators of growing terrorist organisations’ and armed groups’ activities, while the responses to address their unique needs in applying counter- terrorism measures pose enormous challenges to practitioners. To directly address these critical challenges and respond to the numerous requests for assistance from criminal justice practitioners, the IIJ will offer its first subregional juvenile justice workshop in the region to support the implementation of principles enshrined in the IIJ Juvenile Justice Notes for Practitioners. The workshop brought together investigators, military, social workers, prosecutors, defence counsel, judges, detention officials, and other relevant actors from Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The IIJ - Cameroon

The IIJ - Kenya

1. Program: IIJ Juvenile Justice Initiative: Criminal Justice Approaches to Children in a Counter-Terrorism Context – Side Event to the “Africa Children Summit”
2. Date: 12/04/2023 - 14/04/2023
3. Funder: USA
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Description: The primary objective of the side event was to spread the principles in the IIJ Juvenile Justice Notes for Practitioners to enhance the capacity of criminal justice actors handling terrorism matters to better manage children with whom to come into contact. The IIJ partnered with the Kenyan National Council on the Administration of Justice (NCAJ) Standing Committee on the Administration of and Access to Justice for Children and four experienced practitioners in Kenya to introduce the principles in the Notes.

GCERF- Kenya

1. Program: Supporting Initiatives in Rehabilitation and Reintegration (SIRR)
2. Date: 2024 - 2025
3. Funded: Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies (CHRIPS)
4. Thematic Intervention: Resilience-building for preventing violent extremsim conducive to terrorism (PVE)
5. Decription: https://www.gcerf.org/burkina-faso/

GCERF- Kenya

GCERF- Kenya

1. Program: USALAMA NI UAMINIFU –Enhancing Trust between the community and the police in Northern Kenya
2. Date: 2024 - 2025
3. Funded: Regional Pastoralists Peace Link (RPPL)
4. Thematic Intervention: Resilience-building for preventing violent extremsim conducive to terrorism (PVE)
5. Decription: https://www.gcerf.org/burkina-faso/

The IIJ - Ghana

1. Program: National Training on Countering the Financing of Terrorism for Ghanian practitioners
2. Date: 16/07/2024 - 18/07/2024
3. Funder: Germany
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Description: The training aims to strengthen the capacity of Ghanian CFT authorities, to align the national CFT framework with FATF requirements, to enhance interagency cooperation and foster public-private dialogue on CFT in Ghana.

GCERF- Ghana

The IIJ- Côte d'Ivoire

1. Program: Regional workshop on Mitigating risks associated with abuse of DNFBPs for terrorist financing purposes in West Africa
2. Date: 01/10/2023 - 05/10/2023
3. Funder: Germany
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Decription: This workshop aims to deepen the knowledge and skills of financial analysts, criminal justice practitioners and high-risk reporting entities in West Africa to understand, identify and address the vulnerabilities of the DNFBP sector to money laundering and terrorism financing in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Niger, Senegal, and Togo.

The IIJ- Côte d'Ivoire

1. Program: CT PHARE Capacity Building Activity - Human Rights-Based Decision-Making Model (DMM) – Francophone African countries
2. Date: 16/04/2024 - 19/04/2024
3. Funder: EU
4. Thematic Intervention: Criminal justice and rule of law-based counterterrorism responses
5. Decription: The activity strengthened the understanding and accountability of the Human Rights-Based Decision-Making Model by justice practitioners and policymakers. This activity will also assist with the development of an IIJ Tool Kit for practitioners and policymakers on the use of Human Rights-Based DMM in counter-terrorism operations.

GCERF - Chad

1. Program: Prévenir la radicalisation et l’extrémisme violent au Tchad par le relèvement communautaire des jeunes et des femmes du Lac.
2. Date: 2024 - 2025
3. Funded: Association Tchadienne pour la Promotion et la Défense des Droits de l’Homme (ATPDH)
4. Thematic Intervention: Resilience-building for preventing violent extremsim conducive to terrorism (PVE)
5. Decription: https://www.gcerf.org/burkina-faso/

GCERF - Chad

1. Program: Prévention de la radicalisation et de l’extrémisme violent dans le Lac
2. Date: 2024 - 2026
3. Funded: Association Ligue Tchadienne des Droits de l’Homme (LTDH)
4. Thematic Intervention: Resilience-building for preventing violent extremsim conducive to terrorism (PVE)
5. Decription: https://www.gcerf.org/burkina-faso/

GCERF - Burkina Faso

1. Program: Tous ensemble
2. Date: 2022 - 2024
3. Funded: Réseau Afrique Jeunesse (RAJ)
4. Thematic Intervention: Resilience-building for preventing violent extremsim conducive to terrorism (PVE)
5. Decription: https://www.gcerf.org/burkina-faso/