International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC): In November 2009, five international organizations and agencies with mandates in law enforcement and criminal justice capacity-building decided to come together to work jointly on the formation of an international consortium. Representatives from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the World Bank held their first joint meeting in Vienna to design a strategy intended to prevent and combat illegal trade in wild animals and plants, and decided to form the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime to be able to act in a coordinated manner. UNODC focuses on national capacity-building of law enforcement, judiciary, prosecution and legislation. In mid-2012, UNODC, in partnership with other members of ICCWC, developed the Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit. The Toolkit is a technical resource to assist government officials in wildlife and forestry administration and customs as well as other relevant agencies, to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of preventive and criminal justice responses and other measures related to the protection and monitoring of wildlife and forest products which are crucial to curtailing wildlife and forest crime both nationally and internationally. The Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit aims to provide comprehensive guidance in analysing administrative, preventive and criminal justice responses to wildlife and forest crime and other related offences in a given country. An additional purpose of the Toolkit is to identify the different actors in the wildlife and forest offences chain and to provide an understanding of the factors that drive their activities, in order to begin the comprehension of what may be required to prevent an increase in wildlife offences as a global phenomenon.

The Toolkit has four key elements, which assist users in the following ways:

1. Identifying current patterns of wildlife and forest offences, including their drivers and actors;
2. Analysing the criminal justice response, including the legislative, enforcement, prosecutorial and judicial systems in use;
3. Understanding the different links and actors in the wildlife and forest offenses chain; and
4. Implementing measures to address and prevent wildlife offences from being committed by offering alternative incentives.

The Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit is organized into five parts: (a) legislation; (b) enforcement; (c) judiciary and prosecution; (d) drivers and prevention; and (e) data and analysis. Each part represents one of the sectors involved in the preventive and criminal justice response to wildlife and forest offences. The five parts also reflect and bring together a great variety of government agencies, civil society organizations, individuals and other stakeholders.
Currently the Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit is being implemented in countries at South America and South Asia. Additionally, it has received official requests for implementation in Central Africa and other countries from Asia and Africa have expressed their interested in implementing this practical analytical tool.

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