Enhancing National and Regional Competencies to Combat the Financing of Terrorism

This project aims to strengthen Jordanian and Lebanese institutions against money laundering and terrorist financing threats. It supports national investigators to increase their financial investigation capacities further. It also supports private sector entities in understanding and fulfilling their anti-money laundering objectives and reporting requirements. Project activities include: (1) providing two national-level trainings on terrorist financing investigation for 30 Jordanian and Lebanese financial investigators; (2) delivering two awareness-raising forums on human rights and gender inclusion relating to investigating financial crimes for private sector entities; (3) delivering a regional-level experience-sharing exercise on analyzing terrorist financing trends typologies and indicators for financial investigation unit analysts; and (4) publishing a post-implementation summary report with recommendations for future interventions.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced capacity of Lebanese and Jordanian investigators and financial investigation units. This would improve their ability to communicate financial intelligence and analysis when conducting money laundering and terrorist financing investigations; (2) increased knowledge and enhanced coordination between priority private sector entities and national financial investigation units in Jordan and Lebanon. This is to identify suspicious transactions and potential indicators of terrorist financing; and (3) increased capacity of financial investigators to adhere to international human rights standards and best practices for gender inclusion when conducting investigation activities.