The Regional Atrocity Crimes Training Platform (REACT) is a pilot project that aims to address regional gaps in the international community’s ability to provide comprehensive, sustained technical assistance and capacity-building to African and Asian states for the investigation and prosecution of the most serious international crimes.
REACT will focus on supporting two priority regions: Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. These regions have extensive capacity-building needs in the fields of international criminal justice and human rights that call for a committed shift from ad hoc training to sustained capacity-building.
REACT aims to develop the professional competence and skills of national practitioners to deliver victim-centred accountability that is trauma-informed, intersectional, and gender-competent. While gender competence is necessary for tackling the full range of atrocity crimes, REACT will place special emphasis on detecting, investigating and prosecuting gender-based violence, including sexual violence.
As a proposed regional platform with a long-term perspective for capacity-building, REACT’s feasibility will hinge on securing funding to enable a crucial inception phase to be implemented from 2023 to 2024. This phase will prioritise engaging and strengthening relationships with relevant justice and law enforcement actors at the national level, building awareness among national leaders and regional governance bodies, and initiating pilot training activities.
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