The First UNAFEI Criminal Justice Training Programme for French-Speaking
African Countries
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
1. Duration and Participants○ From February 19th to March 11th, 2014
○ 26 African participants from 8 French-Speaking African countries (Burkina
Faso, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Mari, DRC, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal)○ 4 participants from Japan
2. Programme Outline
This is the first training programme focusing on French-Speaking Africancountries at UNAFEI. In May 2013, at the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on
African Development (TICAD V), the Japanese government adopted peacebuilding andrestoring public security as parts of the major pillars of assistance to African Countries.
Further, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has been making significant
efforts to prevent crime in French-speaking African countries. Considering thesecircumstances, UNAFEI launched this programme at the request of the Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
The goal of this programme is:1) To contribute to crime prevention and restoring public security byenhancing the capacity of criminal justice officers to engage ininvestigation, prosecution, advocacy, and adjudication in general cases andterrorism cases.
2) To deepen our understanding of the current situation of the participants’countries and find out the challenges which have the highest priority.
3) As a result of this training course, each participating country is expected tocreate a national action plan for enhancing the capacity of criminal justiceofficers and tackling challenges.
Major topics for discussion include:1) Basic structure of the criminal justice system in eachparticipating country2) The current situation of the criminal justice system in eachparticipating country3) The highest-priority challenges regarding the themes below, and1

desirable action plans for tackling those challenges.
i)Enhancing the capacity of investigation, prosecution,advocacy, and adjudication.
ii)
Combating terrorism.
4) Training Plan for law enforcement officers and criminal justice officers
3. Lectures
Lectures by UNAFEI Professors and the following experts will be provided:
・ Visiting Experts
 Mr. Pierre Lapaque (UNODC)
Regional Representative of the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs andCrime) for West and Central Africa.
 Mr. Thierry Sabot (French Police)
Senior Superintendent of French Police / French Police Attache for Japan andSouth Korea
 Mr. Tony Kwok Man-wai (Anti-Corruption)
Anti-Corruption Consultant
Former Deputy Commissioner of the Independent Commission AgainstCorruption
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
 Mr. Christophe Teissier (French Judiciary)
Investigating Judge
Anti-Terrorist section, Court of Grand Instance of Paris
・ Ad hoc Lecturer
 Ms. Magali Bernard (UNODC)
Ad hoc Lecturer / Advisor for the UNAFEI Training Programme forFrench-Speaking African Countries
Former Regional Project Coordinator / Forensic Advisor in UNODC Regional
Office for West and Central Africa
 Mr. Yasuro Tanaka (Former Judge)
Professor, Meiji Law School2

Attorney at Law
Former President of the Sapporo High Court
 Mr. Keisuke Senta (Public Prosecutor)
Public Prosecutor in the Supreme Prosecutor’s office Mr. Kiyoshi Izawa (Police)
Director of Criminal Identification Criminal Investigation Bureau National
Police Agency
 Mr. Yoshio Higuchi (Police)
Chief Inspector of Research and Training Center for International Criminal
Investigation and Police Cooperation3