Project profile — Strengthening Accountability through Timely Investigation of Atrocities

• Myanmar (8.54%)

• Asia, regional (19.01%)
• Oceania, regional (15.42%)
• Europe, regional (19.01%)
• Africa, regional (19.01%)
• America, regional (19.01%)

• Justice, law and order policy, planning and administration:
Justice, law and order policy, planning and administration (15131) (73.13%)
Human rights (15160) (8.96%)
• Conflict Prevention And Resolution, Peace And Security: Civilian peace-building, conflict prevention and resolution (15220) (17.91%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project supports investigations into alleged human rights abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including sexual and gender-based violence and conflict-related violations involving children. The project works to deploy specialized experts, including forensics investigators, children's rights specialists, gender experts, specially trained translators and criminal investigators. The investigative work carried out by these experts increases the international community’s capacity to ensure justice and accountability by enhancing justice and accountability mechanisms around the world to more effectively investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of grave international crimes and human rights violations.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved effectiveness of the international community to ensure credible and timely accountability for international crimes and serious human rights violations, including sexual and gender-based violence; (2) increased capacity of experts to investigate, document and prosecute; and (3) increased availability of qualified experts to rapidly deploy to emergency and conflict situations.

Results achieved as of July 2024 include: (1) deployed 89 experts in the context of 59 missions to support justice and accountability for international crimes and serious human rights violations in 19 countries around the world, estimating to 2296 days of deployed expertise; and (2) recruited 23 sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) experts to the SGBV Justice experts roster within the broader Justice rapid response roster.

• Proactive disclosure