OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime deliver train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing for Albanian participants

A three-day train-the-trainer course for Albanian participants on countering terrorist financing was organized in Vienna from 27 February to 1 March 2019 by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering (UNODC/GPML).  

The six participants of the course will go on to deliver training courses for local government officials upon their return to Albania, together with OSCE and UNODC international experts.

The course, which took place in the premises of the OSCE Secretariat, was led by international experts and tailored to the Albanian context. It covered national, regional and transnational threats, sources of information, money flows, tackling financial intelligence, and strategic analysis. More than half of the course consisted of practical exercises, often based on localized scenarios.

The aim of the course was to assist Albania in countering terrorist financing, in line with relevant UN Security Council Resolutions, standards of the Financial Action Task Force and OSCE commitments.

Participants deepened their understanding of how improving inter-agency co-operation can help to identify and disrupt terrorist financial networks and how specific instruments and techniques can significantly improve efforts to counter terrorist financing.