NAIROBI WORKSHOP

THE COMPENDIUM OF BEST PRACTICES IN INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF

INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AND ITS LOCAL APPLICATION
MONDAY, 27 APRIL 2015, 10:00 14:00
Strathmore Law School, Madaraka, Nairobi West
TOPICS AND OBJECTIVES
To discuss how to use the Compendium of Best Practices in Investigations and Prosecution of
International Crimes in national prosecution units
To identify the chapters of the Compendium which might be of interest to national prosecutors engaged in using their domesticated Rome Statute, such as the International Crimes Act, to
investigate and prosecute international crimes
To discuss the challenges of witness protection (that is, base-line assessments and the
necessity of witness protection from the outset of an investigation up to prosecution and trial)
To endeavour to nationalise the Compendium; for instance, by drawing up an expansion
of the Compendium based on lessons learnt and experiences of national prosecutors (adding
experience gained at the national level to international experience)
To draw up training modules for relevant, previously identied chapters (for example, joint
investigation teams, witness protection, analysis-driven investigations, linkage evidence, evidence
analysis and management, and trial preparations)

CONTACT
BETTINA AMBACH, Director, Wayamo Foundation
Prinzregentenstr.82, 10717 Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 30 81032821
www.wayamo.com | bettina@bettinaambach.de
JUDIE KABERIA, local coordinator, Wayamo Foundation
Tel. 0722235739 | judy.kaberia@gmail.com

With the nancial support of the German Federal Foreign Ofce

SCHEDULE

12:10 12:20

10:00 10:20

Welcoming remarks
Luis Franceschi Dean, Strathmore Law School
Bettina Ambach Director, Wayamo Foundation

Hassan Bubacar Jallow Prosecutor, International

Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and International
Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

12:20 12:30

Stella Ndirangu Kenya Section of the

International Commission of Jurists

Short inputs by the following speakers:

10:20 10:30

Serge Brammertz Prosecutor, International

Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

10:30 10:40

Robert Petit Counsel and Team Leader,

War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Section
of the Canadian Department of Justice

10:40 10:50

12:30 12:40

Cristina Ribeiro Investigation Co-ordinator,

Ofce of the Prosecutor, International Criminal
Court

12:40 12:50

Simo Vtinen former Chief of the Victim

and Witness Protection Unit, ICC

Jean Bosco Mutangana Head, International

Crimes Unit, National Public Prosecution Authority,
Rwanda

12:50 13:10

10:50 11:00

13:10 13:30

Lilian Obuo Head of the International Crimes

Division, Ofce of the Director of Public
Prosecutions, Kenya

11:00 11:10

Jemima Njeri Senior Researcher, Transnational

Threats and International Crime Division, Institute
for Security Studies, Pretoria

11:10 11:45

Discussion time

Group work
Preparation of workshop recommendations
for next steps (for example, updating and
expanding the Compendium, concrete
propositions for specialised training modules based
on the Compendium, international co-operation
issues, creating checklists for the Compendium
chapters, networking)

13:30 14:00

Discussion time

Presentation of recommendations
at plenary session

11:45 12:10

14:00

Coffee break

End of workshop and light lunch

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