Resilience Fund- Ancillary Meeting at the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Published on March 12, 2021
The United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice is a forum for exchange between states and civil society on crime prevention and criminal justice issues. To contribute to the discussions at the 14th Congress in March, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has organized a range of ancillary events to highlight our latest research, campaigns and programmes. Under its official agenda items, the Congress will be discussing crime prevention, social and economic development, and how to make societies resilient to crime. The GI-TOC has been developing innovative field programmes to address these issues, notably through the Resilience Fund. Launched in 2019 by the GI-TOC and generously supported by the Government of Norway, the Resilience Fund complements and builds on the GI-TOC’s ongoing work in incubating resilience in communities harmed or threatened by criminal governance.
Our event assessed how the Fund has so far benefitted the communities it supports through first-hand accounts from a diverse selection of individuals and groups that are part of the Fund. The Fund supports projects across the world, with the beneficiaries consisting of counter-crime advocates, independent investigative journalists and community resilience initiatives. The session provided a grassroots perspective on community and civil society responses to organized crime, which is vital as key policymakers and influencers gather in Kyoto for the Congress.
