United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism

Published purpose

This project seeks to support national capacities within Kenya, Somalia and Uganda to develop, test and institutionalize systematic methods to gather IED evidence, and handle and respond in a whole-of-government approach across security and law enforcement entities. This aims to be achieved through the provision of training and activities on both upstream (pre-incident) and downstream (post-incident) counter-IED measures. Upstream training seeks to support officials in IED identification, control of IED precursors and components, and intelligence-led operations to interdict individuals or groups before the IED is manufactured or deployed. Downstream C-IED training seeks to enhance law enforcement capacity in scene exploitation and recovered evidence analysis, technical exploitation of recovered devices, component tracing, and the collection and handing of evidence from IED incidents.