Wildlife Crime Prevention (WCP) Alinea, 2023-2026 - Internal Control Review Wildlife Crime Prevention, Alinea, 2023-2025 Wildlife Crime Prevention (WCP) Alinea, 2023-2026 WCP är en enskild organisation som etablerades 2016 för att bygga kapacitet hos myndigheter och andra naturvårdsinstitutioner. Verksamheten utförs inom fem pelare: brottsbekämpning, viltbrottstraffrätt, information, strategisk underrättelseinformation och regionalt samarbete. För att dela med sig av sin erfarenhet, och då illegal handel med vilda djur är en gränsöverskridande verksamhet, så etablerade WCP ett regionalt samarbetsprogram som kallas för Alinea. Inom Alinea stödjer WCP enskilda organisationer som arbetar med liknande frågor i södra, centrala och östra Afrika. Alineas övergripande mål är att skapa säkrare samhällen i distrikt som gränsar till områden med betydande biologisk mångfald, genom effektiva och avsiktliga brottsbekämpande ingripanden mot syndikat för illegal handel med vilda djur och växter som utnyttjar utsatta människor. Mer specifikt syftar Alinea till att förbättra operationell och administrativ kapacitet hos organisationerna, samt främja nätverkande och samarbete. WCP is a not-for-profit organisation established in 2016 with the goal of capacitating partners, both government and other conservation institutions, where there are key gaps and need for collaboration in protecting wildlife and wild areas. WCP was built around five pillars: Law Enforcement, Wildlife Criminal Justice, Awareness, Strategic Intelligence and Regional Collaboration. To share its experience, and since illegal wildlife trade is a cross-border business, WCP established a regional cooperation programme called Alinea. Alinea's overall goal is to create safer communities in districts bordering areas of significant biodiversity, through effective and targeted law enforcement interventions against illegal wildlife trade syndicates that exploit vulnerable people. Within Alinea, WCP supports non-governmental organisations working on similar issues in southern, east and central Africa,to increase their operational and administrative capacity, and promote networking and collaboration. The objective of the intervention is to to strengthen counter wildlife crime (CWC) work at the regional level, in areas of significant biodiversity, by supporting organizations working on the entire chain of law enforcement, including prevention, response, investigations, legal processes and public awareness. 

On a long term perspective, the expected impact of the intervention is to create safer communities adjacent to significant areas of significant biodiversity through effective and deliberate law enforcement interventions against wildlife crime and IWT syndicates who capitalize on exploiting vulnerable people.
The intervention has three main work streams:
1. Support - aims to facilitate the means for WCP to provide support to regional partners in line with the Alinea strategic lines of work and to facilitate administrative capabilities of regional partners. 
2. Connect - support collaboration and unification of efforts through the development of working and knowledge platforms with the regional partners and support key interventions across identified landscapes.  
3. Promote - develop the capacity of Alinea partners to counter IWT, promote the safeguarding of human rights and promote and develop social impact in programmes.