August 2018

Regional Training Facility on Centre Régional de Formation sur Prevention and Suppression of Sexual la Prévention et Suppression des Violence and Gender Based Violence Sexuelles Basées sur le Genre dans in the Great Lakes Region la Région des Grands Lacs

FACT SHEET ON ICGLR-RTF

20 Frequently asked questions about ICGLR-RTF 1. What is ICGLR-RTF? 4. What is the mandate of ICGLR-RTF?

ICGLR-RTF stands for International Conference on the Great To train and equip stakeholders with skills to effectively Lakes Region - Regional Training Facility on the Prevention and promote accountability and fight impunity for sexual and gender Suppression of Sexual and Gender Based Violence. based violence; generate knowledge about the challenges of sexual and gender based violence; and sensitize stakeholders It is a decentralised organ of the International Conference on to change stereotypes and attitudes from marginalization to the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Secretariat and is based in empowerment of women, girls, men and boys to live in dignity , . respect and freedom at all times and in all situations.

The ICGLR-RTF is a regional centre of excellence established in 5. Where does the ICGLR-RTF derive its mandate? 2014. The ICGLR-RTF researches, trains and sensitises relevant stakeholders and the general population in ICGLR Member The ICGLR-RTF derives its mandate from ICGLR instruments, States on sexual and gender based violence (SGBV). including:

The work of the ICGLR-RTF is guided by international and regional instruments, standards, and norms that aim to promote (i) Article 11 of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development accountability and end impunity for SGBV in the Great Lakes For the Great Lakes Region, December 2006 Amended Region. November 2012 (the Pact); that commits Member States undertake, in accordance with the Protocol on the Prevention Regional Training Facility on Centre Regional de Formation Sur 2. WhatRegional is ICGLR? Training Facility on Centre Regional de Formation Sur Prevention and Suppression of Sexual La Preventino et Suppression des Prevention and Suppression of Sexual La Preventinoand et SuppressionSuppression des Against Women and Children, to combat and Gender Based Violence Violence Sexuelles Basees Sur Le Genre ICGLRand Genderstands Based for Violence International Conference on the GreatViolence Sexuellessexual Basees violence Sur Le Genre against women and children through in the Lakes Region Dans La Region Des Grands Lacs Lakesin theRegion. Lakes Region The ICGLR is an intergovernmental organisationDans La Region Des Grands Lacs prevention, criminalizing and punishing acts of sexual violence, comprising twelve (12) Member States. It was formed by the African Union, the United Nations and the Member States of the both in times peace and in times of war, in accordance with from the British people from the British people ICGLR. The ICGLR is a regional mechanism with a Secretariat national laws and international criminal law.” based in Bujumbura, Burundi and is the technical arm and (ii) Article 6(9) of the Protocol on the Prevention and coordinating body of the Conference. Suppression of Sexual Violence against Women and Children, It is headed by an Executive Secretary and its mandate is to 2006 (SGBV Protocol); that commits Member States to set up promote peace, security, stability and development in the Great Lakes Region. The ICGLR Secretariat coordinates, facilitates, a special facility for training and sensitizing judicial officers, A TRAINING COURSE ON COLLECTION , PRESERVATION AND MANAGEMENTA TRAINING OF COURSEmonitors, and ensures ON COLLECTIONthe implementation of Pacts , andPRESERVATION police units, social workers, medicalAND officers MANAGEMENT and other OF other initiatives in order to attain peace, security, stability, and categories of persons who handle cases of sexual violence in FORENSIC EVIDENCE IN INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION FORENSICdevelopment EVIDENCE in the Great Lakes Region. IN INVESTIGATIONthe Great Lakes AND Region. PROSECUTION 3. How is ICGLR-RTF linked to the ICGLR-Secretariat? (iii) Resolution 14 of the Declaration of the Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the Internation- OF SGBV CASES ICGLR-RTF is a decentralized organ of OFthe ICGLR SGBV Conference CASES al Conference on the Great Lakes Region, 2011 (Kampala Secretariat based in Kampala, Uganda. ICGLR Secretariat Declaration), recognizes Uganda’s offer to host the Regional remains the headquarters of ICGLR-RTF and is guided by rules SGBV Training Facility and directs the ICGLR Secretariat to Venue: UNIK HOTEL , NAMUGONGO ROAD, KAMPALA-UGANDA. Venue: UNIK andHOTEL policies of the ICGLR , KIREKA Secretariat. A Host NAMUGONGO Agreement was prepare the ROAD, financial requirements KAMPALA-UGANDA. (budget) for the estab- signed between ICGLR Secretariat and Government of Uganda th th th th lishment of the Facility and present it to the next meeting of further clarifying the diplomatic status of the RTF in Uganda. Dates: 5 -9 June 2018 Dates: 5 -9 JuneRegional 2018 Inter-Ministerial Committee (RIMC) for decision. 10. What is the link between the ICGLR-RTF and the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes?

The Special Envoy for the Great Lakes complements the work of the ICGLR and the ICGLR-RTF. During the the visit of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General for the Great Lakes Region to the ICGLR-RTF on 27 April 2018, Djinnit Said stated, “Very happy to be back to the Regional Training Facility to reiterate my support and encouragement to the Director and his team on the good work they are doing in servicing the 6. Who are the ICGLR Member States? cause of preventing and suppressing sexual and gender based The Member States of ICGLR constitute 12 countries: violence in the GLR.” Angola, Burundi, Central Africa Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. The ICGLR Member 11. Who are in the ICGLR Group of Friends? States are legally bound by the ICGLR instruments. In the context of partnership in addressing SGBV, twenty-seven The ICGLR has also co-opted Member States that border the (27) countries and ten (10) international organisations in Great Lakes Region. The co-opted ICGLR Member States December 2003 constituted a Group of Friends of the ICGLR are seven and include: Botswana, Ethiopia, Egypt, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe. (GoFs).The Group of Friends provide political, diplomatic, technical, and financial support to the ICGLR. Whereas co-opted Member States are not legally bound by the ICGLR legal instruments; they are however expected to support The Group of Friends include: Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, the implementation of the ICGLR Pact on Security, Stability and Denmark, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Greece, Holy See, Development in the Great Lakes Region (2006). Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, 7. Have all ICGLR Member States ratified the ICGLR Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United instruments? States of America. The international organisations are: the European Commission, African Union Commission, African Yes. All the 12 Member States of the ICGLR have ratified Development Bank, United Nations Economic Commission the ICGLR Pact on Security, Stability and Development in the for Africa (ECA), United Nations Development Programme Great Lakes Region and the 10 Protocols of the Pact and the (UNDP), UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA), and Office 2006 SGBV Protocol. The 12 Member States of the ICGLR are of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations therefore legally bound by the ICGLR instruments. Children Fund (UNICEF), United Nations High Commissioner 8. Where does ICGLR-RTF operate? for Refugees (UNHCR), International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. TheRegional ICGLR-RTF Training works Facility onin the 12 Member States of the ICGLR.Centre Regional de Formation Sur RegionalRegional Training Training Facility Facility on on CentreCentre Regional Regional de Formation de Formation Sur Sur ThePrevention ICGLR-RTF and Suppression also works of Sexual closely with the African UnionLa Preventino et Suppression des PreventionPrevention and Suppression and Suppression of Sexual of Sexual La PreventinoLa Preventino et Suppression et Suppression des des and andthe Gender United Based Nations Violence to prevent sexual and gender basedViolence Sexuelles Basees Sur Le Genre and Genderand Gender Based Based Violence Violence ViolenceViolence Sexuelles Sexuelles Basees Basees Sur Le Sur Genre Le Genre violence;in the Lakes promote Region accountability, end impunity for sexual andDans La Region Des Grands Lacs in thein Lakes the LakesRegion Region Dans LaDans Region La Region Des Grands Des Grands Lacs Lacs gender based violence. from the British people 9. How is ICGLR-RTF linked to the Africa Union and fromfrom the Britishthe British people people the United Nations? The ICGLR was established by Member States with the support of the United Nations and the African Union. Resolution 1291 and 1304 by the United Nations Security A TRAINING COURSECouncil and the ONDar es COLLECTION Salaam Conference supported , PRESERVATIONby AND MANAGEMENTA ATRAINING TRAINING COURSE OF COURSE ON ON COLLECTION COLLECTION , PRESERVATION , PRESERVATION AND AND MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT OF OF the United Nations and the African Union in 2004 provided a foundation for the signing of the Pact on Security, Stability, and FORENSICGreat Lakes EVIDENCERegion in Nairobi, Kenya inIN 2006. INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION FORENSICFORENSIC EVIDENCE EVIDENCE IN IN INVESTIGATION INVESTIGATION AND AND PROSECUTION PROSECUTION In 2009, the ICGLR was granted “Observer Status” with the 12. How have the Group of Friends and Special Envoys United Nations at the United Nations General Assembly. The supported the ICGLR-RTF? ICGLR has a Memorandum of UnderstandingOF SGBV(MoU) with the CASES OFOF SGBV SGBV CASES CASES African Union Commission (AUC). The ICGLR is under con- sideration for admission as a Regional Economic Community The Group of Friends and Special Envoys provide technical and Venue: UNIK (REC).HOTEL See link to African, KIREKA Union Report onNAMUGONGO the ICGLR-RTF: financial support ROAD, to the ICGLR-RTF KAMPALA-UGANDA. in implementing Venue: Venue:the ICGLR UNIK UNIK HOTEL HOTEL , KIREKA , KIREKA NAMUGONGO NAMUGONGO ROAD, ROAD, KAMPALA-UGANDA. KAMPALA-UGANDA. https://www.icglr-rtf.org/publication/view/assessment-misth th- instruments and ICGLR-RTF activities aimed at combating th th th th sin-to-the-icglr-regional-training-facility-rtf-on-the-prevenDates: 5 -9 - Junesexual 2018 and gender based violence in the Great Lakes Region. Dates:Dates: 5 5 -9 -9 June June 2018 2018 tion-and-suppression-of-sexual-violence-gender/ 13. What activities are currently being executed by 15. Who implements the activities of ICGLR-RTF? ICGLR-RTF? (i) The ICGLR-RTF organizes regular sensitization and The activities of the ICGLR-RTF are implemented by staff, training events, including workshops, colloquia, symposia, and National Trainers, Master Trainers, affiliated trainers, conferences. Since its establishment in 2014, the ICGLR-RTF consultants, the Member States of the ICGLR, and ICGLR Secretariat. has organised thirteen (13) sensitization and trainings events, including workshops, colloquia, symposia, and conferences. These events have led to training of over 700 experts on how to effectively handle cases of sexual and gender based violence. (ii) The ICGLR-RTF is developing and finalising standardized training manuals, including curricula and facilitation guides for training police, judicial officers, social workers, medical officers, and other categories of persons on how to effectively handle sexual and gender based violence cases. These manuals are always ‘work in progress’, adapting their contents on recent and relevant developments in the field. Moreover, the manuals are customised for every target group of professionals (or: trainers) that are being trained. (iii) The ICGLR-RTF has recruited and trained 12 Master Trainers and has so far recruited more than 40 National Trainers from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and Zambia. (iv) The ICGLR-RTF aims to recruit at least 10 National Trainers 16. What are the achievements of ICGLR-RTF? per each Member State of the ICGLR and to have over 120 So far, the ICGLR-RTF has: Experts in the Great Lakes Region by December2018. The National Trainers will further cascade the training model by (i) Acquired permanent office premises in training groups of professionals in country, such as medical with potential for expansion. staff, police officers, judicial officers, and psychosocial workers. (ii) Developed standardised manuals and curricula on SGBV for police officers, judicial officers; psychosocial workers;

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Algeria (iii) Trained Master and National Trainers in the 12 ICGLR Libya Egypt Western Sahara Member States to strengthen and improve capacity to respond

Mauritania to and prevent sexual and gender based violence. The Master Niger Mali Sudan Chad Eritrea Trainers and 10 National Trainers (in each ICGLR Member State) Senegal Gambia Burkina Djibouti Guinea- Faso Guinea Benin further cascade training to professionals at national levels. By Bissau Nigeria RegionalSierraRegional TrainingIvory Training Facility Facility on on Ethiopia CentreCentre Regional Regional de Formation de Formation Sur Sur Leon Coast South Ghana CAR Sudan July 2018, National Trainers had been trained in Uganda, Kenya, Liberia Togo PreventionPrevention and Suppression and Suppression of CameroonSexual of Sexual La PreventinoLa Preventino et Suppression et Suppression des des and Genderand Gender Based Based Violence Violence Somalia ViolenceViolence Sexuelles Sexuelles Basees Basees Sur Le Sur Genre Le Genre Equatorial Guinea Rwanda, and Zambia. Training in Angola; Burundi; Tanzania; in thein Lakes the LakesRegion Region Congo Uganda Kenya Dans LaDans Region La Region Des Grands Des Grands Lacs Lacs Gabon Sudan; South Sudan; Central African Republic; Democratic DRC Ruanda Republic of Congo; and the Republic of Congo will be completed Tanzania Burundi by December2018. fromfrom the Britishthe British people people Angola Mozambique Zambia (iv) Trained over 700 personnel, including judicial

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*Boundaries and names shown on this map do not represent the o cial position of the ICGLR based violence in the region. FORENSICFORENSIC EVIDENCE EVIDENCE IN IN INVESTIGATION INVESTIGATION(vi) Conducted AND AND advocacy PROSECUTION PROSECUTION for legislative and policy reforms 14. What other categories of persons are trained and in Member States to address impunity and promote account- sensitised by the ICGLR-RTF? OFOF SGBV SGBV CASES CASESability for sexual and gender based violence. The other categories of persons targeted for training and (vii) Conducted successful advocacy for expedited es- sensitisation by ICGLR-RTF include but are not limited to: tablishment of special courts dedicated to prosecuting sexual Venue: Venue: UNIK UNIK HOTEL serviceHOTEL providers , in KIREKA refugee, KIREKA settlements, NAMUGONGO camp NAMUGONGO commandants, and gender ROAD, basedROAD, violence KAMPALA-UGANDA. in KAMPALA-UGANDA.some Member States, such as teachers, media practitioners, lawyers, prosecutors, prison Uganda. officers, policy makers, military officers, and thotherth professionth th- als handling SGBV. Dates:Dates: 5 5 -9 -9 June June 2018 2018 17. Who funds the ICGLR-RTF? (iv) Strengthen the expert circle of Master Trainers and National Trainers. The ICGLR-RTF is supported by contributions from (v) Conduct continuous fact-based, credible, and reliable Member States of the ICGLR and Partners of the ICGLR. research on sexual and gender based violence in the Great Lakes Region. The ICGLR-RTF has also received funding and technical support (vi) Establish an E-Learning platform to provide skilled trainings from: the World Bank, the Dutch Government (Netherlands on sexual and gender based violence. Initiative for Capacity Development in Higher Education (vii) Expand training sessions to other categories, such as (NICHE), African Union Peace and Security Department, British service providers in refugee camps, prisons, and teachers. High Commission, UNWOMEN, Office of the Special Represen- (viii) Recruit more staff and engage experts/consultants to tative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, execute the ICGLR-RTF mandate. Office of Special Envoy of the Secretary General on the Great (ix) Operationalise national coordination mechanisms; Lakes Region, Population council –Kenya, GIZ, FIDA-Uganda, (x) Strengthen Institutional Capacity and Partnerships for AkinaMamaWaAfrika. effective implementation of ICGLR-RTF mandate.

18. What are the future plans of ICGLR-RTF? 19. What can I do for ICGLR-RTF?

(i) Cascade training of professionals, judicial officers, police, To achieve its goals, the ICGLR-RTF relies on partnerships and psychosocial workers, medical officers, and other categories collaborations with people and organizations that support its of persons at the national level. mandate and objectives. (ii) Sensitize particular target groups that influence public If you are interested in being part of this partnership and collab- opinion, including media practitioners, policy makers, and oration, please contact the ICGLR-RTF. change agents. (iii) Implement quality assurance of training, including supporting creation and implementation of monitoring and 20. Where are the offices and what are the contact evaluation training outcomes. details of ICGLR – RTF?

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FORENSIC EVIDENCEICGLR-Regional Training IN Facility INVESTIGATION (RTF) on Prevention and Suppression AND of Sexual PROSECUTION & Gender Based FORENSIC EVIDENCE IN INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION Violence in the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR-RTF) Yusufu-Luwaga Lane (off Salama Road), Munyonyo, Plot 1349, Block 255 OF SGBVP.O Box 1386, CASESKampala, Uganda OF SGBV CASES Telephone: +256414343655; +256785831057: +256752646891 Email: [email protected] | Website: www.icglr-rtf.org Venue: UNIK HOTEL , KIREKARegional NAMUGONGO Director: Nathan Mwesigye Byamukama ROAD, KAMPALA-UGANDA. Venue: UNIK HOTEL , KIREKA NAMUGONGO ROAD, KAMPALA-UGANDA.

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