OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime deliver online train-the-trainer course to enhance Albania’s capacities to financially disrupt terrorist networks

The OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit, in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized an online train-the-trainer course from 11 to 13 November 2020, with the aim of further strengthening Albania’s capacities in countering the financing of terrorism.

Senior experts and practitioners from the Finance Ministry’s General Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering and the Albanian State Police took part in the course. Together with the OSCE lead trainers, participants developed scenario-based exercises for the OSCE-UNODC training courses on countering terrorist financing, which will be delivered in the country in the future.

As part of a sustainable training programme delivered by the OSCE and the UNODC, the senior experts participating in the train-the-trainer courses, jointly with the OSCE and UNODC lead trainers, will go on to train other experts from relevant authorities in Albania in the coming years.

The multi-year training programme on countering terrorist financing aims to increase the capacity of Albania to detect and combat terrorist financing and strengthen compliance with international standards in this area. In particular, these international standards are UN Security Council Resolutions, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF)’s standards, UN norms and OSCE commitments that promote human rights-based approaches in countering terrorist financing. ​

The train-the-trainer course emphasized the key role of inter-agency and international co-operation and of multi-stakeholder approaches in countering terrorist financing.