Stream House has been assisting in the implementation of a whistleblowing mechanism within the context of the prevention of illegal exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi which are member states of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). This region is plagued by the “paradox of…
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The training program was designed as a simulated case tailored for the Burundi context involving a gold smuggling route originating from DRC across the Burundi border. A fictitious newspaper article about the arrest and detention of a motorbike courier smuggling gold bars across the border starts off the case resulting in several whistleblower reports about the alleged…
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Tom Lasich and colleagues designed a simulated case training program delivered for law enforcement authorities of the DRC. The case scenario had to be realistic and in accordance with the political sensitivities of the region. Visiting officials from Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda joined the approximately 35 enforcement officials including investigators, prosecutors, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) representatives and…
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