CENTRAL TO THE APPROACH TAKEN
BY THE GLO.ACT TEAM HAS BEEN A
FOCUS ON:
• Building a community of practice; both practitioner-to-practitioner
and across countries and
sectors of the response, from traditional criminal
justice providers to new or relevant actors that
ideally will be maintained once the project has
concluded
• Operational level impact – with the aim of providing
operational support and input to ongoing TIP
and SOM cases at - country, bilateral and regional
levels - with a focus on mentorship - including
joining partners such as INTERPOL in operations;
this necessarily requires trust building to allow
team members and in particular the Regional TIP/
SOM Adviser to advise on case files and/or facilitate
cooperation between counterparts in different
jurisdictions
• Meaningful gender equality and human rights
mainstreaming – beyond counting numbers to the
finalization of a standard setting toolkit for the TIP
and SOM field validated by policy setting and coordination
bodies, targeted efforts to increase female
professional representation and the development
of a women’s network
• Tracing illicit financial flows through research
addressing a major gap in knowledge which will
help tailor capacity building and operational
efforts to target the illicit flows and ensure effective
financial investigations are initiated
• Increasing the quality rather than quantity of
investigations/prosecutions, through promotion of
coordinated and strategic approach to case and
target selection, with the aim of holding accountable
those most responsible for organized crime
and illicit profit
• Diversifying evidence base from one based solely
on testimonial evidence to one that promotes
financial/forensic and other corroborative lines of
inquiry
• Going local as much as possible – ensuring the
project invests resources and training outside of
the capitals and identifies feasible pilot areas, and
privileges and fosters national expertise, including
through mentorship
• Addressing the policy and practical linkages between
conflict and TIP/SOM, ensuring that conflict
informed approaches are implemented and that
they are harmonized with relevant humanitarian
and human rights actors as well as international
justice mechanisms
• Promoting a holistic crime prevention approach
in line with UNODC’s strategy as a multi-sectoral,
multi-disciplinary, and integrated endeavour
• Seeking innovation – use of technology, magnifying
impact by cooperating with strategic partners
• Developing and implementing an exit and sustainability
strategy from day 1 of implementation to
ensure that gains and momentum achieved have a
longer-term viability. This includes mainstreaming
GLO.ACT activities in government processes and
institutions