Establishing and Operating Asset Management Offices and Criminal Assets Recovery Funds

Course overview

International standards expect countries to manage seized and confiscated property effectively, and many African states have created or are planning asset management offices and criminal assets recovery funds. Getting the design right from the start, including mandate, structure, funding and controls, avoids years of problems. This asset management office course guides leaders through establishing and running these institutions.

Participants compare models of asset management offices, from units within prosecution services to independent agencies, and study the legal provisions they need. They work through organisational design, staffing and skills, funding models including self-financing from recovered assets, information systems and relationships with police, prosecutors, courts and finance ministries. The course then covers operating a criminal assets recovery fund: receipts, allocations, governance, transparency and audit. Case studies draw on regional and international experience, and participants develop an establishment or improvement plan for their own country.

Participants leave with a clear design blueprint and implementation plan for an effective asset management office and fund.

What you will be able to do

• Compare institutional models for asset management offices
• Identify the legal provisions an asset management office needs
• Design the structure, staffing and funding of an office
• Establish information systems and inter-agency relationships
• Set up governance and controls for a criminal assets recovery fund
• Prepare an establishment or improvement plan

Who should attend

For policy makers, agency leaders and senior managers involved in creating, reforming or running asset management offices and recovered asset funds.

• Heads of asset recovery and asset management agencies
• Ministry of justice and finance policy officers
• Directors of public prosecutions staff
• Legislative drafters
• Senior asset managers
• Development partner advisers

Course outline

Fees are per participant in US dollars and cover tuition, course materials and your certificate. Travel and accommodation are not included.