Our work
LawEnforcementCapacity
Trained officers, stronger institutions, better cases.
Practical, multi-agency training delivered in-country since 2022
Building capacity for more effective enforcement. Equipping law enforcement officers, judicial practitioners, and port security authorities with practical skills, evidence-gathering protocols, and inter-agency coordination mechanisms.
The challenge
Enforcement outcomes depend on people. An investigation is only as strong as the officer who gathers the evidence, the analyst who reads the intelligence, and the prosecutor who has to carry it into court.
Environmental crime cases are technically demanding. They involve digital evidence, financial flows, chain-of-custody requirements and multiple jurisdictions, often at the same time.
How we build capacity
ATI convenes specialised, practical workshops for enforcement officers, judicial practitioners and port security authorities. Sessions are delivered in-country, with participants drawn from the agencies that will use the skills.
Training covers investigative technique, controlled delivery exercises, port and container inspection, evidence handling, and the inter-agency coordination that complex cases require.
ATI strengthens:
- Practical investigative skills for officers in post
- Evidence-handling and chain-of-custody discipline
- Judicial familiarity with environmental crime cases
- Port, airport and border inspection capability
- Working relationships between agencies that need to share information
Programme overview
- 1
- Documented activity
- 2025
- Period covered
- Countries represented
- Tanzania · Kenya · Uganda · Malawi · Zambia
- Where it was delivered
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Gallery
Photographs
Certificate ceremony, Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife between Africa and Asia. 30 May–4 June 2022, Arusha, Tanzania. GEF and partner marks visible on programme banner. Practical field exercise during the controlled delivery course, Mombasa, Kenya, 12–17 June 2023.
Collaboration
Partners on this programme
Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF)
International Organizations
Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar
Government
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
International Organizations
Work with us on this
ATI collaborates with government agencies, regional bodies, funders and practitioners across East and Southern Africa.