MANDATE AND SCOPE

MANDATE

The Global Alliance against Drugs and Crime (GA) is a facilitator and clearinghouse mandated to liaison between the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and other concerned international FORAs on one side, and the UN member states and their respective societal stakeholders on the other side. The tripartite structure of the Organization’s main governing body – Steering Board well reflects this mandate, its scope and modus operandi.

SCOPE

Assistance in the implementation, horizontalization, and support in monitoring of domestic compliance with the fundamental instruments of the Universal Criminal Justice is the main scope of work of the GA.

Consequently, the main tools of GA’s activities are:

• Tripartite liaising and advocacy; 
• Assessment and fact-finding missions; 
• Applied research and report making; and 
• Training (focus seminars, workshops, dissemination and brain-storming conferences). 

The ever-growing number of global changes along with its increasing gravity and frequency, the GA has identified and tentatively clustered under the six categories. To this end, the GA will primarily address in its work: 

• Organized crime (incl. smuggling of and trafficking in human beings); 
• Corruption in both the public and private sector (including money laundering, and proceeds of crimes); 
• Illicit drugs (medical and narcotic); 
• Terrorism contexts (non-politico-military); 
• Environmental crimes; and 
• Dual-use/disruptive technologies (incl. AI, cybercrimes, cyberterrorism, and other so-called human presence eliminating technologies).

The Organization’s Secretariat with one Director General (DG) and six portfolio-related Deputy DGs well reflects this scope of work.