The “Anti Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism in Eastern, Southern, Central Africa, and Yemen” (AML-CFT ESCAY) regional project aims to curb the incidence of transnational organised crimes and terrorism in 33 African countries, and Yemen. The project will achieve this by improving national response capacities and inter-regional cooperation in targeting Illicit Financial Flows generated by transnational organised crimes. Over the next two years, this action’s support will be offered through training, workshops, conferences and through limited tailor made activities designed to meet specific demands and needs of beneficiary countries.

These 2 projects succeeded in creating a platform for open dialogue, information exchange, and collaboration between institutions at the regional level. Most notable during the second phase was the creation of a handbook of Guidelines on inter-agency collaboration in the investigation and prosecution of terrorism cases in Kenya. In this new phase, the Guidelines Handbook, in line with FATF’s Action Plan, will serve as a template for replicating the same in other countries in the region, when deemed necessary.

This will harmonize the regional approach to handling terrorism-related cases. To ensure sustainability of gains made, the projects also trained trainers of trainers drawn from various national institutions, who will in turn train their peers in matters related to anti-money laundering, financial intelligence, trafficking of human beings, counter financing of terrorism and many more. In total, the projects trained over 6,000 people.