Insight Crime Latinamerika - Kärnstöd Insight Crime Latin America - Core Support InSight Crime is a non-governmental organization with 13 years of experience that has become the major reference for the coverage and analysis of organized crime and citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Insight Crime is a regional actor that promotes the debate on organized crime, it is founded within the region and its activities tackle cross¬border challenges that are common to almost all region’s countries. They contribute to deepen and inform the debate about organized crime in the Americas by providing regular reporting, analysis, investigation, and policy suggestions on how to tackle the multiple challenges it presents, and promotes increased transparency and reduced corruption in the region. In this sense, their work contribute to goal of increasing regional cooperation and dialogue in the areas of human rights and the rule of law, strengthening regional solutions, and strengthening citizens’ capacity to influence policy decisions. Sida assessment is that the contribution is well aligned with the regional strategy for Latin America and that a core support can be beneficial to strengthen this partner´s work and their influence in LAC.

This contribution concerns support to InSight Crime in the form of of core funding, which will be used to strengthen the overall activities of InSight Crime during the next three years (2024-2026). InSight Crime är en icke-statlig organisation med 13 års erfarenhet som har blivit den viktigaste referensen för bevakning och analys av organiserad brottslighet och medborgarnas säkerhet i Latinamerika och Karibien. Insight Crime är en regional aktör som bidrar till debatten om organiserad brottslighet. Organisationen grundades och har sin bas i regionen. Dess verksamhet hanterar gränsöverskridande utmaningar som är gemensamma för nästan alla regionens länder. De bidrar till att fördjupa och informera debatten om organiserad brottslighet i Amerika genom att tillhandahålla regelbunden journalistisk rapportering, analys, utredning och policyförslag om hur man hanterar de många utmaningar som den organiserade brottsligheten utgör, och främjar ökad öppenhet och minskad korruption i regionen. På så sätt bidrar deras arbete till målet att öka regionalt samarbete och dialog inom områdena mänskliga rättigheter och rättsstatsprincipen, stärka regionala lösningar och stärka medborgarnas kapacitet att påverka politiska beslut. Sida bedömer att bidraget ligger väl i linje med den regionala strategin för Latinamerika och att ett kärnstöd kan vara att föredra för att stärka denna partners arbete och deras inflytande i LAC.

Detta bidrag avser stöd till InSight Crime i form av kärnfinansiering, som kommer att användas för att stärka den övergripande verksamheten för InSight Crime under de kommande tre åren (2024-2026). InSight Crime will receive core support from sida for the next three years (2024-2025-2026). The main goal of the intervention is to strengthen the partner´s overall objective of deepening, informing, and provoking "debate about organized crime and citizen security in the Americas by providing regular reporting, analysis, and investigation, as well as policy suggestions on how to tackle the multiple challenges they present".

According to InSight Crime´s strategic document for 2023-2025, the specific objectives for the period are the following:

1. Strengthen the regional outlook of the partners work in their efforts on understanding and explaining criminal dynamics throughout the Americas.

2. Support the social media and communications objective particularly including podcast as a new communication format.

3. Reinforce the retention and training of staff plan to support their internal capacity-building.

4. Support the investigative priorities planned for the period, in particular those related to environmental crime, threats to democracy and rule of law, and the understanding of organized crime and gender.