Overview
The Greater Horn of Africa (GHoA) and eastern and southern Africa (ESA) region is a source, transit
and destination of existing, evolving and emerging multiple transnational criminal threats. The region
is faced with forms of serious organized crimes including trafficking of human beings (THB), smuggling
of migrants (SoM), drugs trafficking, proliferations and trading in small arms and light weapons
(SALW), crime against environment and money laundering (ML) among others. The Horn, eastern and
southern Africa is also faced with terrorism, violent extremism and financing of terrorism. The growing
nexus between terrorism and transnational organized crime (TOC) has complicated the security
challenges. The different forms of TOC in the region are generating significant amount of proceeds to
be laundered and enter the legitimate economy and/or possibly finance other crimes. Addressing
criminal asset to deprive criminals from illegally enriching themselves takes a priority in the fight
against crime and criminality.

Background
Transnational organized crimes generate hundreds of billions of US Dollars (USD). According to the
projection of the ILO (2014) report2, forced labour exploitation and forced sexual exploitation alone are
estimated to generate up to 150 billion USD in 2018 globally. Sub-Saharan Africa is believed to generate
about 13.1 Billion USD from forced labour exploitation only Organised criminals to a large extent are
motivated by financial and material benefit that is driven by a rational choice of being mindful of the
associated risks that makes it difficult to investigate/prosecute. Traditionally, the focus of law
enforcement is on investigating and prosecuting predicate offences. However, criminals are ready to
take risk of serving in prison sentences as far as their illicitly gained finance/asset is available to them
and their families to enjoy.

In this regard, it becomes important to focus on depriving criminals from
enjoying their illicit profits in addition to prosecuting predicate offences. Financial investigation and
asset confiscation are key interrelated measures necessary to deter organized crimes. That means, both
punishing perpetrators and tracking the proceeds are necessary to reduce the incentives for criminals to
commit crimes that produce proceeds. Therefore, law enforcement agencies and other relevant
authorities mandated to deal with proceeds generating crimes should prioritise to confiscate illegally
obtained assets.

Objective and Expected Results and Deliverables
The training aims to reinforce knowledge and skills on how to trace, investigate, seize/freeze,
recover/confiscate illegally obtained assets in general and the proceeds of THB and SoM in particular.
This training will detail technics and methods of asset investigation, confiscation and management with
a due emphasis to virtual assets.
The Workshop will also provide an opportunity to participants to share the good practices/experiences
and challenges among themselves to further enhance networking and information sharing on AR.
Participants will engage in intensive, stirring and motivating exercises and discussions that will promote
common understanding, working together and devise way forward on how to implement effective AR
system.
At the end of the Workshop, participants are expected to:

•  better understand the process of asset recovery and apply relevant techniques of AR required in each process;
• Better apply methods and techniques of asset investigation and confiscation
• Better understand the concepts, types and techniques of tracing, confiscation and management of virtual assets;
• Better understand management of assets; and be exposed to and share good practices from the participating institutions and individuals. Through the above stated results expected to be achieved at individual level, the training Workshop, together with other interventions by the Project and others, is expected to contribute to:
• Enhanced capacity on the deterrent effect of depriving perpetrators from their criminal gains through enhanced AR regime
• Improved effectiveness of confiscation of proceeds of crimes contributing to increased value of confiscated assets

The following are key outputs or deliverables of the training:

• Presentations, case studies and reference documents shared
• List of participants disaggregated in gender, institutions and country
• Participants end of course evaluation feedback report about achievability of the objective, expected results, methodology, organization, deliverables, quality of trainers, and satisfaction)
• Main training report – technical – by NKE

Beneficiaries and Targets

• Primary target beneficiaries of this Workshop are asset recovery and law enforcement (investigative and prosecution) agencies of the target countries
•  Expected participants in this Workshop are those working in the above agencies who are directly working on AR or anticorruption, asset investigation and AR prosecutions depending on the national settings. About 40 participants are expected from all the beneficiary countries of the GHoA and ESA. Participants are required to have first degree level higher educational background, good command of English language, practical experience of 2 years or above in the field.

The trainees are expected to be highly motivated and committed to learn and share
experiences.