The International Institute forJustice and the Rule of Law

Published purpose

This project supports the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ), which applies a comprehensive approach to reintegrating and rehabilitating returning foreign terrorist fighters (RFTF), and the lessons learned from its work in the Middle East, North Africa and West Balkans to the Sahel Region. Project activities include: (1) facilitating an introductory workshop allowing the IIJ to present the project’s capacity building goals to the attendees, while allowing representatives from participating countries to present their current national efforts to facilitate the formulation of capacity building; (2) conducting in-country meetings by project staff in order to assess the actual needs and conduct a gap-analysis, working closely with the recipient country’s staff, to determine the relevant stakeholders that aim to participate in capacity building activities; (3) implementing four workshops for each selected beneficiary state that focus on providing policy and decision makers and practitioners’ knowledge in order to develop their capacities concerning legal/legislative policies, procedures and programmatic aspects for introducing effect RFTF rehabilitation and reintegration strategies; and (4) conducting a series of meetings in-country with relevant stakeholders who participated in the country needs assessment to assess plans and activities being implemented to understand any variation in RFTF related needs of the country.