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Collaboration

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No single institution, sector or country can address transnational environmental crime alone.

How we work together

ATI's role is to convene and to build capability. The institutions ATI works with hold the mandates, the jurisdictions and the operational authority. ATI supports them, and does not act in their place.

Partnership takes different forms: co-financing, technical expertise, information sharing, joint convening and community delivery. Standing institutional partners are listed first. Organisations ATI has worked alongside on one specific programme or event, and the partners of the 2021–2023 programme ATI evolved from, are listed separately, each with its role stated.

6 partners

Institutional partners


  • International Organizations

    Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF)

    Intergovernmental task force established under the Lusaka Agreement on Cooperative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora. LATF nominated and coordinated participants for the 2022–2023 training series and its Director opened the March 2025 Dar es Salaam workshop.

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  • International Organizations

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

    Principal funder of the Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia project (UNDP/GEF PIMS 5620), under which the 2022–2023 training series was delivered.

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  • International Organizations

    Global Environment Facility (GEF)

    Co-financing partner of the Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia project, delivered under the Global Wildlife Programme.

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  • Academic Institutions

    Center for Environmental Forensic Science

    Provides forensic science expertise to the training programme, including DNA tracing of ivory to identify poaching hotspots and link seizures to the same trafficking networks.

  • Academic Institutions

    University of Washington

    Academic partner supporting forensic training and the application of science to wildlife crime investigation, through the Center for Environmental Forensic Science.

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  • NGOs

    Okoa Maliasili

    Tanzanian natural-resource conservation organisation, listed among ATI's institutional and technical collaborators in the ATI Institutional Profile and named in the signed Grace Farms final technical report of 13 February 2024.

4 collaborators

Programme and event collaborators


Organisations ATI has worked alongside on one specific programme or event. Each entry describes that role; none is presented as a standing ATI partnership.
  • Women Financial Literacy & Inclusion Programme, 2025

    I&M Bank

    Led the Women Financial Literacy & Inclusion Programme with Airtel Money, launched with a one-day training for more than 50 women entrepreneurs in Dar es Salaam on 27 June 2025. The bank pledged to plant one tree for every 100 women it lends to, with ATI named to oversee supply, tracking and reporting. This is a pledge, not a record of trees planted.

  • Women Financial Literacy & Inclusion Programme, 2025

    Airtel Money (Airtel Tanzania)

    Launched the Women Financial Literacy & Inclusion Programme with I&M Bank Tanzania, inviting women from the community using Kamilisha, the mobile overdraft service the two companies developed together. More than 50 women attended the launch training in Dar es Salaam on 27 June 2025.

  • Women Financial Literacy & Inclusion Programme, 2025

    Grant Thornton Tanzania

    Developed the curriculum for the Women Financial Literacy & Inclusion Programme led by I&M Bank Tanzania and Airtel Money, covering budgeting, saving, debt management and digital finance. It was delivered at the launch training in Dar es Salaam on 27 June 2025.

  • Green Africa Tree Planting Campaign, Kigamboni, 2025

    United Bank for Africa (UBA)

    Partner organisation for the Green Africa Tree Planting Campaign, implemented by ATI with UBA at three Kigamboni District schools between March and June 2025: 5,000 trees planted, and 300 literature books given to Aboud Jumbe Secondary School.

5 partners

2021–2023 programme partners


Partners of the Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia programme, delivered by Grace Farms Foundation, from which ATI evolved. Roles are as recorded in the programme's signed final technical report. LATF, UNDP, GEF, the University of Washington, the Center for Environmental Forensic Science and Okoa Maliasili also took part and are listed above.
Grace Farms Foundation
Responsible Party that delivered the programme under its agreement with UNDP (UNDP/GEF PIMS 5620).
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Programme partner with UNDP, GEF and the Global Wildlife Program; the programme is recorded as USAID Grant Activity 2.1.2.
Global Wildlife Program
Programme partner with USAID, UNDP and GEF.
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
Collaborating partner on the programme from its inception.
Wildlife Research and Training Institute, Kenya
Collaborating partner through its Forensics and Genetics Laboratory.

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