The United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime (UNCTOC) defines Transnational and Organized Crime (TOC) as an offense “whose inception, perpetration and/or direct or indirect effects involve and affect the interests of more than one country”. UNCTOC identifies several categories of TOC, which vary in their outfits, scope, scale, and impact.
The Kenya Judiciary Academy (KJA) and its partners has convened a 3-day regional judicial dialogue on TOC and IFF in October 2023, on the role of courts in the prevention and response to TOC and illicit financial flows. The dialogue will provide a platform for policy leadership to improve transnational justice. The dialogue will also provide a forum to discuss experiences, challenges, and potential solutions in the adjudication of different forms of TOC and illicit financial flows amongst Judges, practitioners, and experts in this field. It will also provide an opportunity to reflect on the gains made in regional criminal justice reforms, and in particular, cross-border crimes and related judicial training by the judicial training institutions. The dialogue will look to sustain achievements made in the adjudication of TOC and define a way forward for the development of a TOC curriculum for judiciaries in the region.