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Eastern Africa Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities ( EAAACA )

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Eastern Africa Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities was formed on 28th September 2007 in Kampala, Uganda when the heads of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission of Kenya (now Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission), Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau of United Republic of Tanzania and Inspectorate of Government of Uganda, signed the Kampala Declaration of East African Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (EAAACA).

The Association was thereafter, launched in Nairobi, Kenya on 9th November 2007 when the EAAACA Constitution was signed.

Vision
To promote the spirit of zero tolerance against corruption and encourage regional cooperation in preventing and combating corruption.

Overall Objective
EAAACA’s overall objective is to promote and facilitate regional cooperation, mutual legal and technical assistance in the prevention and combating of corruption in the region, to share information, hold trainings and carry out joint research.

Slogan

Strong Regional Collaboration against Corruption.

THE LAUNCH OF EAST AFRICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANTI-CORRUPTION AUTHORITIES (EAAACA)
The East African Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities was formed on 28th September 2007 in Kampala, Uganda when heads of Kenya Anti-corruption commission of Kenya (now ethics and Anti-corruption Commission), prevention and combating of corruption Bureau of United Republic of Tanzania and Inspectorate of Government of Uganda, signed the Kampala Declaration of East African Association of Anti-corruption Authorities (EAAACA).

The Association was therefore launched in Nairobi, Kenya on 9th November 2007 when the EAAACA constitution was signed.

Membership
Membership of the Association is open to all Anti-Corruption Authorities of East African Community Partner States and to any other members in Eastern Africa. Other organisations with similar objectives may become observers of the Association on application for membership.The current membership includes;

Organs of EAAACA
EAAACA is composed of the following organs

Annual General Meeting
Is the supreme governing body of the Association and comprises of members of Anti-Corruption Authorities of EAAACA, and honorary members.

Executive Committee
Is the managing and administrative body of the Association. It consists of; the President, the Vice President, General Secretary and not more than five (5) additional office bearers as determined by the General Meeting.

The President is the Executive head of the Association and holds office for a term of two years. She/he is assisted by the Vice President who is from a Partner State other than the one holding the presidency. The presidency is rotational. The Committee meets on a regular basis but not less than once every calendar year.

Secretariat
It is the technical and implementation arm of the organization. It is based in Kampala and headed by the General Secretary who is elected at the General meeting. The General Secretary holds the office for a term of four years but is eligible for re-election.

The secretariat is responsible for the day to day running of the Association and co-ordinating the affairs of the Association. The General Secretary is assisted by designated staff /personnel in accordance with the approved structure. Committees: These are composed of representatives from each of the member Authority and are set up when need arises.

Ag. Secretary Ms. Munira Ali

About ARIN-EA
ARIN-EA stands for Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network for Eastern Africa. ARIN-EA is an informal network which aims at informal exchange of information on individuals, assets and companies, at the regional and international level so as to facilitate the effective tracing and recovery of proceeds of crime and deprive criminals of their illicit gains.

ARIN-EA recognizes the need to promote cooperation at the regional level as well as in international to effectively track/race and recover stolen assets within and beyond the territorial boundaries of Eastern Africa, in collaboration with relevant partners.

Establishment
ARIN-EA was conceptualized on 4th July 2013 at a side event during the 4th Global focal Point Meeting on Asset recovery held in Bangkok, Thailand. The network was launched with the support of StAR Initiative/World Bank of 6th November 2013 in Kigali, Rwanda during the 7th East African Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (EAAACA) Annual General Meeting (AGM).

ARIN-EA is the first informal network of practitioners in the Eastern Africa Region to tackle the proceeds of all crime. Creating such an innovative network will increase the possibility of stopping criminals from enjoying the illegally acquired wealth.

ARIN-EA President

0n 20.11.2019: The Asset Recovery Network for Eastern Africa elected attn. Lillian William Kafiti as the new president for the Association.

Mission & Vision
VISION:
To become the World-class center of expertise in exchange of information on tracing and recovery of the proceeds of crime.

OUR MISSION:
To promote sharing of information for the effectiveness of members’ efforts leading to the recovery of proceeds of crime.

PRINCIPLES: Collaboration within ARIN-EA is guided by the following principles:
Regional ownership
Trust
Partnership
Transparency
Complementarity
Sustainability
Equal and active involvement
Efficiency
Integrity
ARIN-EA Objectives
Building of trust amongst focal points for protection of confidentiality.
Focus on the proceeds of all crimes within the framework of domestic and international obligations.
Establish itself as a centre of expertise and develop best practices in tackling proceeds of crime.
Promote the exchange of information and best practice.
Establish and sustainably maintain a network of focal points.
Form a solid international network with other related entities such as CARIN, ARINSA, RRAG, ARIN-AP: Global Focal Points on Asset Recovery.
Facilitate and promote training and research in all aspects of tackling the proceeds fo crime:
Act as an advisory group to other authorities.
Establish strategic partnerships and cooperation with the private sector and civil society in achieving its aims.
Membership
ARIN-EA membership is drawn from eight Eastern African countries which include Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda

Each member country has nominated two focal points to the network, one from an Anti-Corruption Agency and the second from the Prosecutorial/Judicial/Law enforcement Authority (as may be relevant to each jurisdiction)

The president of ARIN-EA for 2020/2021 is Attn. Lillian William Kafiti from PCCB

Collaboration Networks
ARIN-EA admits Observer status to states, government institutions, other similar networks and international organizations, regional networks and entities). The observer status do not qualify for membership status. Or voting rights at any plenary meeting or to membership of the Steering Group.

(Camden asset recovery inter-Agency network) was established in Europe.

(asset recovery inter-agency network of Southern Africa)

RRAG
(red de recyoeracion de actives de GAFISUD) in Sourth America.

ARIN-AP
(asset recovery inter-agency network – Ais Pacific)

ARIN-WA
(asset recovery inter-agency network of Western Africa)

ARIN-EA PRESENTATION TO THE MEETING – 26TH -27TH JUNE 2019

EUROPOL HEADQUARTERS, THE HAGUE

Current status of ARINEA

1. Membership

Full Membership still at 8 countries with 24 Institutions

Members with observer status – existing networks including: ARINSA, ARIN-AP, ARIN CARIB, CARIN, ARINWA, and RRAG. We are looking forward to having ARIN-WCA as members.

2. Strategic Plan

The New Strategic Plan 2019/2023 which was developed with support from GIZ was approved in November 2019 and is in the initial year of implementation. . Some of our activities are being supported by the EAAACA members as well as GIZ. The Strategic Plan can be accessed on our website.

We are in the process of sharing the plan with other partners seeking support to ARINEA.

3. Website

ARINEA – has a functional website which can be accessed at eaaaca.com

Secure Platform – there is a secure platform for exchange of information. All focal persons have been trained and there is a retraining to be conducted in July.

4. Requests

We continue to receive and share requests through networks. Most of the request are within the region.

We acknowledge the new requests we received from CARIN and ARIN-CARIB.

Lesson: ARINEA received a request and preliminary investigations indicated that the request may have been generated by the persons under investigation. Need to be extra cautious when managing requests

5. Capacity Building

Members of ARINEA continue to receive training with support from GIZ, EU and UNODC.

With support from EU and GIZ, ARINEA has a pool of Training of Trainers. The trainers are going to conduct training of officials from the various membership institutions in July and August. This is with support from GIZ.

Lesson: A curriculum for training could be developed to support all ARINs as they prepare to train all those involved. This should be from generating inforamal requests – MLAs. the curriculum should capture lesssons and best practices across the globe. This will facilitate the focal persons greatly

Awareness

Presentations about ARINEA have been made at various foras. Including: the Commonwealth Heads of Anti-Corruption Meeting – in Uganda in May 2019

1st African Anti-Corruption Forum and 4th Annual General Meeting for Africa Anti-Corruption Authorities – in Egypt

There is still a lot more that needs to be done to create awareness of the work of the informal networks.

Upcoming Activities

1. Research: A proposal to conduct a typology study of the common crimes within the region is being developed. We hope this study will be finalised by this year to enable the members identify these common crimes and lay strategies of how to address the matter across the borders. GIZ is willing to support this activity.

2. Joint Meeting for ARINEA and Balkans: A joint meeting with Balkans has been organised to take place in July in Kenya. The aim is to share with Balkans the lessons in asset tracing and recovery.

3. MLA Guidelines: The structure of the guidelines is being improved and this will also be part of the discussion in the July meeting.

4. Engagement with UNODC: further engagements are on-going with UNODC on areas of support to ARINEA.

5. Upcoming AGM: The 5th AGM for ARINEA will take place in November 2019 in Uganda. we will share all the details and send out invitation to all of you our stakeholders.

6. Review ARINEA Statement of Intent: we are in the process of reviewing the statement of intent and this will also be discussed in the meeting in July.

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Eastern Africa Strengthens Cooperation in Asset Recovery

On 20:09:19: A steering group meeting of the Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network for Eastern Africa (ARIN-EA) has spotlighted Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) as critical in guiding the recovery of assets even in cases where the proceeds of corruption are stashed in foreign jurisdictions.

The meeting, which was hosted by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), expressed the hope that the MLA guidelines would help stifle illicit financial flows and also aid in repatriation of assets acquired through corrupt means. It brought together focal persons from six of the eight ARIN-EA member countries: Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda.

The focal persons met at Naivasha from 16th to 20th September, 2019, through the support of the GIZ Africa Programme for Combating Illicit Financial Flows. The Inter-agency network is the asset recovery arm of the Eastern Africa Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (EAAACA) and comprises focal persons drawn from law enforcement agencies in eight member countries.

The discussions on the MLA Guidelines were led by Ms. Jacinta Oduor from Governance and Policy Consultants, LLC.

During the closing ceremony, the ARIN-EA President and Focal Person from the Inspectorate of Government in Uganda, Ms. Sarah Birungi, pointed out the need for commitment to the asset recovery network by focal persons. She also urged them to sensitize stakeholders through in-country sessions so as to create awareness about the Network.

The EACC Secretary / CEO, Mr. Twalib Mbarak, who is also the current EAAACA Vice-President, said that ARIN-EA had a very big role to play as asset recovery would deter perpetrators of corruption from accumulating wealth if they knew that they would lose it. Mr. Mbarak further said that, “we need to find ways to address corruption or our children will be doomed”. He concluded by saying that we should ensure that the fight against corruption was a regional.

Communique from the 4th ARIN-EA Annual General Meeting Held from 19th to 23rd November 2018

following the 4th annual general meeting of ARIN-EA Held in Kigali, Rwanda. Several resolutions were made. The meeting was attended by several focal persons from different member states headed by the lead focal person Ms.Sarah Birungi

REPORT FROM THE CARIN MEETING HELD AT EUROPOL IN THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS ON THE , 31ST OF AUGUST TO THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER, 2017

The Camden Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network (CARIN) held the 4th meeting of the Regional Asset Recovery inter-Agency Networks at Europol, in The Hague, Netherlands, on the 31st of August and 1st of September, 2017. Europol /CARIN sponsored the President of ARIN-EA Ms. Sarah Birungi and Secretariat representative, Viola Ocharo to attend the said meeting. CARIN members are mainly drawn from the European Union (EU), USA and Canada. The other regional asset recovery networks; ARIN-AP, ARIN-CARIB, ARIN-WA, ARIN-SA, RRAG were represented at this meeting.

The meeting begun with introductory and welcome remarks by a representative from CARIN Secretariat Europol Criminal Asset Bureau (ECAB) Mrs. Marcella van Berkel, who emphasized the importance of the meeting and the need for the informal networks to collaborate in information sharing amidst the varied jurisdictions, and similar challenges each network faces. A representative from the Europol Financial Intelligence made the opening address. In his opening address he re-emphasized the need for collaboration in fighting illicit financial flows and the importance of the network in enhancing asset recovery in the respective regions and amongst the global networks. He concluded in stating that coordinated crimes need a coordinated approach which can only be achieved through collaboration of states and existing structures