The facility provides rapid and flexible support to UN Member States facing an urgent or evolving terrorist threat or situation. It seeks to help Member States, who request the support, to increase their capacities to detect, prevent, counter, respond to and investigate evolving terrorist threats, while ensuring the respect for international law, including human rights and the rule of law. The Facility’s support centres around advisory and mentorship services and can include also capacity-building activities and the provision of limited, light and non-lethal equipment.
- Tailored technical assistance provided through the deployment of experts for advisory and mentoring support, in a number of thematic areas determined by Member States’ requests.
- Training activities or workshops, which could be co-organised with UNOCT’s global capacity building programmes and other UN entities’ efforts.
- Limited provision of light, non-lethal equipment, such as personal protective equipment or IT equipment.
Concrete examples:
- Iraq: 43 national officers were trained in trauma-informed interviewing techniques and data handling for repatriation processes from Al Hol camp in Northern Syria; IT equipment and database support was also provided. This resulted in immediate increase in the pace and improvement of the repatriation process, particularly with regard to human rights, gender issues and the protection of personal information.
- Kenya: Two ongoing support packages on P/CVE and OSINT with the National Counter-Terrorism Centre; a third supporting packages is being prepared for the Criminal Investigations Academy. In this context, a M&E framework was developed for the revised Kenyan P/CVE strategy, together with a tailored approach to communication campaigns, and a five-year roadmap to enhance OSINT capacities.
- Kyrgyzstan: Through a support package on digital forensics in CT cases and protection of vulnerable targets, there has been 30% increase in the number of processed cases by the Digital Forensics Laboratory. The facility provided mentoring services, development of 20 new guidelines and trained 15 trainers certified in digital evidence collection.
