Regional capacity building for North Korea sanctions implementation

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2023) include: (1) delivered a two-day workshop on UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) sanctions implementation on North Korea in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia in July 2022; (2) delivered a remote webinar on North Korean counter-proliferation finance targeting participants from Central Asia in October 2022 for financial officials from five Central Asian states; (3) developed a comprehensive UNSCR enforcement handbook with regional case studies in Mongolian and Russian; (4) delivered a three-day workshop on North Korean maritime sanctions evasion in Panama City Panama in October 2022 that was attended by port customs and coast guard officials from Panama and El Salvador; (5) developed a comprehensive UNSCR enforcement handbook with regional case studies relevant for Latin America; (6) delivered a two-day workshop on North Korean proliferation finance risks in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in May 2022 that engaged central bank officials working in compliance roles at central banks in Malaysia Cambodia Laos Vietnam Nepal and the Philippines; (7) developed a comprehensive UNSCR-informed enforcement handbook with regional case studies relevant to the Southeast Asian region; (8) delivered a two-day workshop on DPRK proliferation finance risks in São Paulo Brazil in May 2022 for compliance professionals from the Central Bank of Brazil private financial institutions and other relevant financial advisory firms based in Brazil; and (9) delivered a two-day workshop on North Korean financial risks in Dakar Senegal in September 2022 that engaged public and private sector compliance professionals from 17 states in Francophone Africa.