Canada’s Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program (ACCBP) was established in December 2009 to enhance the capacity of beneficiary states, government entities and international organizations to prevent and respond to threats posed by transnational criminal activity in the Americas. Since 2015, the program has a global scope with a focus on the Americas and particularly Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico. The main focus of the program is on Illicit Drugs, Corruption, Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling, Money laundering and Proceeds of Crime, Security System Reform (police, judiciary, intelligence and prison), Crime Prevention.
Within this broader context, support has been requested by the International Assistance Evaluation Division (PRA) of Global Affairs Canada for the planning of an evaluation of Canada’s international assistance the ACCBP. In this regard, a review of evaluations by other donors of development aid and academic sources has been considered as necessary.
The purpose of this study was to review available thematic evaluations, program evaluations, major project evaluations and other essential documents with the aim to Review Lessons Learned from European anti-crime capacity-building programs.
The focus of the study was to assess whether ACCBPs including gender mainstreaming were effectively supported by other countries and to identify what lessons can be used in future programming. Initial focus was on evaluations commissioned by European countries and institutions in the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Maghreb.