The Action aims at contributing to peace and justice through the promotion of stronger institutions and the rule of law via a multi-sector and multi-stakeholder’s approach. Emphasis will be placed on the reduction of corruption, money laundering, and organised crime (with a focus of drug trafficking) through prevention, investigation, and criminalisation to improve accountability and compliance with good governance principles.
The Action builds upon and complements the results achieved through the implementation of the programme ‘Supporting the Consolidation of the Rule of Law in PALOP countries and Timor-Leste’ (PACED) financed under the European Development Fund (EDF), which ended in June 2022. It assumes that through these achievements the target countries can now advance a step forward and start putting into practice (operationalisation) the support provided by the EU in these thematic sectors in the past decade.