United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders

A/RES/71/207View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 106 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

28 versions · 1992–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/242

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/242	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders	2,345	85%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/234	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders	2,171	87%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/197	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders	1,909	92%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/188	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders	1,907	77%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/207	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders	1,748	92%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

21 reports · 2001–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/289	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/242
2024	A/79/247	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/234
2022	A/77/164	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/197
2020	A/75/111	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/188
2018	A/73/133	United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/207

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Africa Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Regional Cooperation Resources Mobilization Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

Commends the United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders for its efforts to promote, coordinate and carry out more activities within its core mandate, including regional technical cooperation related to crime prevention and criminal justice systems in Africa, despite the resource constraints under which it is operating;

Also commends the initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in strengthening its working relationship with the Institute by supporting and involving the Institute in the implementation of a number of activities, including those contained in the revised African Union Plan of Action on Drug Control and Crime Prevention (2013–2017), on strengthening the rule of law and criminal justice systems in Africa;

Reiterates the need to strengthen further the capacity of the Institute to support national mechanisms for crime prevention and criminal justice in African countries;

Also reiterates the benefits, in some cases, of the utilization of alternative remedial measures, where appropriate, applying standards of ethical conduct and using local traditions, counselling and other emerging correctional rehabilitation measures, consistent with the obligations of States under international law;

Notes the efforts of the Institute to establish contacts with organizations in those countries which are promoting crime prevention programmes and its maintenance of close links with regional and subregional political entities, such as the African Union Commission, the East African Community, the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the Southern African Development Community;

Encourages the Institute, in cooperation with relevant United Nations agencies, to take into account the various planning authorities in the region that focus attention on the coordination of activities that promote development based on sustainable agricultural production and preservation of the environment in developing its crime prevention strategies;

Urges States members of the Institute that have failed to meet their financial pledges to the Institute to pay all or part of those outstanding arrears, taking into consideration that member States are to fund 73 per cent of the approved budget;

Recalls the report of the Governing Board of the Institute, convened in Lilongwe on 29 May 2015, which outlines the positive conclusion of the review process aimed at reinvigorating the Institute and discusses measures to address the decline in financial support for the programmes of the Institute;

Also recalls the introduction by the Institute of a cost-sharing initiative in its execution of various programmes with Member States, partners and United Nations entities;

Urges all Member States and non-governmental organizations and the international community to continue to adopt concrete practical measures to support the Institute in the development of the requisite capacity and in the implementation of its programmes and activities aimed at strengthening crime prevention and criminal justice systems in Africa;

Urges all States that have not already done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto,² as well as the United Nations Convention against Corruption;³ and encourages States parties that have not yet implemented the conventions to inform the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime of any impediments they encounter and of their need for technical assistance to overcome those impediments;

²United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574.

³Ibid., vol. 2349, No. 42146.

Encourages African States that are not yet members of the Institute to consider becoming member States in order to strengthen the fight against crime and terrorism, which hamper individual and collective development efforts on the continent;

Commends the continued support provided by the Government of Uganda as host country, including resolving the issue of the ownership of the land on which the Institute is located and facilitating the Institute’s collaboration with other stakeholders within Uganda and the region and with international partners;

Also commends the efforts of the Institute in implementing several programmes in the region, which have contributed, inter alia, to a growing set of coordinated remedial responses to crime on the basis of technical support in facilitating mutual assistance by law enforcement agencies and the emergence of regional jurisdictions;

Welcomes the Institute’s initiative to collaborate with relevant universities to operationalize the link between criminal justice authorities and sources of traditional justice approaches, so as to harmonize the use of restorative practices where they may be appropriate;

Also welcomes the Institute’s initiatives to work with specific academic and specialized human rights institutions that are connected to other professional networks in the region to promote curricula that have a strong crime prevention and criminal justice component;

Encourages the Institute to consider focusing on specific and general vulnerabilities of each programme country, with specific emphasis on tailoring practitioner training and development efforts to address identified vulnerabilities, and to maximize the use of available initiatives to address crime problems with existing funds, as well as available capacity, by creating useful coalitions with regional and local institutions;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to mobilize the financial resources necessary to maintain the Institute with the core Professional staff required to enable it to function effectively in the fulfilment of its mandated obligations;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to work closely with the Institute, and requests the Institute to provide the annual report on its activities to the Office as well as to the Economic Commission for Africa Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development;

Requests the Secretary-General to enhance the promotion of regional cooperation, coordination and collaboration in the fight against crime, especially in its transnational dimension, which cannot be dealt with adequately by national action alone;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a biennial report with a specific focus on the current and future structural, financial, administrative and operational aspects of the Institute, giving due consideration to intensifying efforts to mobilize all relevant entities of the United Nations system to provide the necessary financial and technical support to the Institute to enable it to fulfil its mandate, bearing in mind that the precarious financial situation of the Institute greatly undermines its capacity to deliver services effectively.

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