Policy Development & Implementation

The Institute is dedicated to building on solid research and analysis in a manner that supports the development and implementation of laws, policies, strategies and programs to enhance global governance and security.

Examples include:
2.1. UNTOC and UNCAC: Develop and implement an efficient and reliable reporting mechanism for the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), while providing self-assessment capabilities and means to (assist in the) reform national criminal justice systems.
2.2. Assessing national policies and systems and international partnerships to control firearms trafficking and crime
2.3. Terrorism Finance Database: the project will conduct needs assessment of terrorist financial data, develop the terrorism finance database matrix, collect financial data, produce financial data analysis develop a tool for report generation, conduct evaluation of database and integrate changes.
2.4. Corruption Knowledge Creation and Management Project: the project collects, organizes and analyzes up to date and validated information on corruption issues from all UN member states.
2.5 Project on Performance Indicators in Anti-Corruption and Good Governance. This project will begin with a focus on Brazil and emphasis on all initiatives, plans and measures implemented in all sectors and geographic areas. The aim is to test a new and forward looking approach to measuring governance and providing country outlooks for the benefit of public servants, the private sector and the international community. Once the model is validated, it will be the basis of South-South collaborations and will be applied in other countries as well.
2.6. Security and Sustainable Growth: A Collaborative Policy Management Network for the 21st Century.
2.7. Program to study and control WMD-related financial flows and their actors. This is a comparative project sponsored by the Commission of the European Union that seeks to understand the problem and responses to it in the USA and European Union.
2.8. The World Trade Center (WTC) Dublin will be an ally and supporter of Ireland’s knowledge economy and export development initiatives. The WTC will launch its program in the spring of 2008 with a series of conferences built around topics of corporate security and risk management.