Strengthening Justice Response to Terrorism in Cambodia Laos Myanmar and Vietnam

This project aims to enhance criminal justice preparedness to counter-terrorism and its financing in Cambodia Laos Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV). Project activities include: (1) enhancing law enforcement’s abilities to detect and disrupt terrorist movement and activities through the delivery of one sub-regional workshop for frontline officers on emerging terrorist threats and four training courses on counter-terrorism investigations and prosecution; (2) providing technical inputs on the criminal justice response to terrorism for the development of a comprehensive “training curriculum” for the National Training Center for Counter-Terrorism in Vietnam; (3) strengthening counter-terrorist financing capabilities through the implementation of a long-term “Train-the-Trainers (ToT) Course on Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT)” in Vietnam and Cambodia along with the implementation of a ToT programme on CFT in Laos; and (4) promoting and strengthening regional level cooperation on CT matters by supporting Lao’s production of “Implementation Manual for the Extradition Law” which acts as a tool for effective enforcement of Lao’s Extradition Law.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) strengthened CT institutional capacity of CLMV in preventing terrorist threats and suppressing transnational terrorist activities through effective investigation prosecution and international cooperation on terrorism-related cases; (2) enhanced CLMV’s abilities to swiftly freeze terrorists’ assets and suppress financial provisions for terrorist purposes in line with international obligations including relevant UN Security Council Resolutions and international standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF); and (3) increased Lao PDR’s abilities to provide regional and international cooperation on terrorism-related legal cases.