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WCS’ PREVIOUS AND CURRENT INTERVENTIONS
TO COMBAT WILDLIFE CRIME
“Building an Equipped Law Enforcement To Combat
Wildlife Crime” Workshop for URA
Venue: Skyz Hotel, Ntinda, Kampala
Date: 20th May 2019
Geoffrey Mwedde, Simon Nampindo, Helen Mwiza Paul Mulondo
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY
Greater Virunga Transboundary
Collaboration
Greater Virunga Transboundary
Collaboration
Greater Virunga Transboundary
Collaboration
Aim: Enhance Conservation
of GVL as a unit with one
common vision
Activities
- Joint coordinated patrols
- Wardens meetings – info
sharing
- Customs sensitization in
IWT
- Wardens meeting
- Joint research
National Wildlife Crime Coordination
Task Force (NWCCTF)
Goal: To promote cooperation and coordination among
security agencies, law enforcement bodies and other
relevant government institutions to combat wildlife
crime at national and international level.
NWCCTF
Objectives are to:
a) foster strategic cooperation to combat wildlife crime.
b) enhance communication and build operational links among the
government institutions to facilitate sharing of information and
intelligence related to wildlife crime.
c) share intelligence and information on poaching, illegal wildlife
trade and trafficking through Uganda.
d) conduct and coordinate joint operations and prosecutions related
to IWT and trafficking.
e) raise awareness within the law enforcement institutions about the
risks and negative impacts of poaching, IWT and trafficking.
f) establish networks with regional and global mechanisms on IWT
**Wildlife crime refers to national and international wildlife crime
involving flora and fauna
NWCCTF Membership
1. Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities (CITES
Management Authority)
2. Uganda Wildlife Authority
3. Uganda People’s Defence Force
4. Uganda Police Force
5. Financial Intelligence Authority
6. Uganda Revenue Authority (Customs Department)
7. Internal Security Organization (ISO)
8. External Security Organization (ESO)
9. National Forestry Authority (NFA)
10. National Environment Management Authority
11. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
12. Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)
13. Directorate of Citizenship and immigration control
Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool
(SMART)
Collection of data on Smart
phones
• Based on UWA’s
Management Information
Systems (MIST)
• Data collected in Cyber
tracker on smart phones
• Data can be downloaded
directly to SMART
• With SMART Connect can
upload it to cloud from
where SMART database
manager can download it
Goal: Effective management of
protected areas through capacity
building and implementation of
monitoring tools, best practices and
standards
SMART
Approach
Rigorous
standards
Capacity
building &
support
Effective
software
tools
Rigorous
standards
Capacity
building &
support
The SMART Partnership
Online Wildlife Offenders Database
(OWODAT)
OWODAT Admin
• User names and
passwords
allocated by
System
Administrator
Profile Sheet
UWA SLEU Capacity building
- Intelligence
- Forensics
- Investigation
UWA CANINE UNIT
UWA CANINE UNIT
Uganda-China Initiative Project (UCI)
Project Title
“Engaging Chinese Enterprises in Uganda to Reduce Ivory Demand”
Project Goal
“To develop a scalable and replicable model that achieves demand reduction for ivory
products through behavior change in high-risk Chinese businesses operating in East
Africa”.
About UCI
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is currently implementing a project
dubbed the “Uganda-China Initiative (UCI).”
It evolved out of the need to reduce the supply and demand for ivory and
the consumption of other endangered wildlife species products.
Though China announced a ban on ivory trade in December 2016 and
published environmental guidelines for enterprises operating overseas,
the principles do not address wildlife trafficking, best practices, reporting
of illegal activities or offer compliance mechanisms.
WCS Interventions to combat wildlife crime by Geoffrey Mwedde, Project Manager IWT at WCS Uganda

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WCS Interventions to combat wildlife crime by Geoffrey Mwedde, Project Manager IWT at WCS Uganda

  • 1.
  • 2. WCS’ PREVIOUS AND CURRENT INTERVENTIONS TO COMBAT WILDLIFE CRIME “Building an Equipped Law Enforcement To Combat Wildlife Crime” Workshop for URA Venue: Skyz Hotel, Ntinda, Kampala Date: 20th May 2019 Geoffrey Mwedde, Simon Nampindo, Helen Mwiza Paul Mulondo WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY
  • 5. Greater Virunga Transboundary Collaboration Aim: Enhance Conservation of GVL as a unit with one common vision Activities - Joint coordinated patrols - Wardens meetings – info sharing - Customs sensitization in IWT - Wardens meeting - Joint research
  • 6. National Wildlife Crime Coordination Task Force (NWCCTF) Goal: To promote cooperation and coordination among security agencies, law enforcement bodies and other relevant government institutions to combat wildlife crime at national and international level.
  • 7. NWCCTF Objectives are to: a) foster strategic cooperation to combat wildlife crime. b) enhance communication and build operational links among the government institutions to facilitate sharing of information and intelligence related to wildlife crime. c) share intelligence and information on poaching, illegal wildlife trade and trafficking through Uganda. d) conduct and coordinate joint operations and prosecutions related to IWT and trafficking. e) raise awareness within the law enforcement institutions about the risks and negative impacts of poaching, IWT and trafficking. f) establish networks with regional and global mechanisms on IWT **Wildlife crime refers to national and international wildlife crime involving flora and fauna
  • 8. NWCCTF Membership 1. Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities (CITES Management Authority) 2. Uganda Wildlife Authority 3. Uganda People’s Defence Force 4. Uganda Police Force 5. Financial Intelligence Authority 6. Uganda Revenue Authority (Customs Department) 7. Internal Security Organization (ISO) 8. External Security Organization (ESO) 9. National Forestry Authority (NFA) 10. National Environment Management Authority 11. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) 12. Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) 13. Directorate of Citizenship and immigration control
  • 9. Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART)
  • 10. Collection of data on Smart phones • Based on UWA’s Management Information Systems (MIST) • Data collected in Cyber tracker on smart phones • Data can be downloaded directly to SMART • With SMART Connect can upload it to cloud from where SMART database manager can download it
  • 11. Goal: Effective management of protected areas through capacity building and implementation of monitoring tools, best practices and standards SMART Approach Rigorous standards Capacity building & support Effective software tools Rigorous standards Capacity building & support The SMART Partnership
  • 12. Online Wildlife Offenders Database (OWODAT)
  • 13. OWODAT Admin • User names and passwords allocated by System Administrator
  • 15. UWA SLEU Capacity building - Intelligence - Forensics - Investigation
  • 18. Uganda-China Initiative Project (UCI) Project Title “Engaging Chinese Enterprises in Uganda to Reduce Ivory Demand” Project Goal “To develop a scalable and replicable model that achieves demand reduction for ivory products through behavior change in high-risk Chinese businesses operating in East Africa”. About UCI Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is currently implementing a project dubbed the “Uganda-China Initiative (UCI).” It evolved out of the need to reduce the supply and demand for ivory and the consumption of other endangered wildlife species products. Though China announced a ban on ivory trade in December 2016 and published environmental guidelines for enterprises operating overseas, the principles do not address wildlife trafficking, best practices, reporting of illegal activities or offer compliance mechanisms.

Editor's Notes

  1. The ‘SMART Approach’ is a site-based approach to monitor, evaluate and improve the effectiveness of conservation management. The ‘Approach’ leverages SMART software, a cutting-edge computer-based monitoring and management tool, combined with a suite of best practices, to enhance the effectiveness of protected area management, including conservation law enforcement, intelligence gathering, and ecological monitoring. SMART makes it possible to collect, store, communicate, share, and analyze ranger-collected data on illegal activities, wildlife, and management actions to evaluate performance and refocus investment. It also comes with a mobile data collection app combined with a powerful analysis and mapping interface designed for, and customizable by, local users. However, SMART makes no assumptions about local technical capacities and is designed to be used at the site level in order to easily and quickly convert field data into useful management information. SMART is now the global standard for wildlife law enforcement monitoring, built on a successful platform with global reach, and has become the solution of choice for governments - already engaged with +40 government agencies on implementation. SMART is focused on user needs  - it is customizable and built with user feedback – and is community owned and driven. SMART software is free and open source. The SMART partnership consists of 8 main partner organizations (logos shown here)