OCCRP 2023-2028

Examples of results during the first seven months: -During the reporting period, OCCRPs South Caucasus team continued flagship training-by-doing with a selected group of fellows(four females and one male). - AI, digital tools, tech training: Tool for continued security monitoring and performing forensics of mobile phones was purchased with Sidas funds This will allow detection of spyware of various kinds on mobile phones in real time. OCCRP continued to update and provide journalists and other organizations with access to an open-source data platform that searches global databases and documents. At the end of the reporting period, it maintained about 850 active users per month, and analyzable data on over 4.3 billion entities. - Urgent security needs: To further enhance the safety and operational security of OCCRP member centers, especially in light of contextual events, OCCRP has invested in the installation of advanced security cameras and provided secure web hosting services. In addition to physical security, the provision of secure web hosting is critical for protecting the digital assets and sensitive information handled by the center. - In-house training: The Sida funding contributed to OCCRPs on the job training of Member Centers editing, video, research and data teams, OCCRP achieved good results, such as with 14 project country stories published in the reporting period, and a total of 3 real-life impact events in, or relating to, the target countries.

The Journalism Development Network (JDN), a global non-profit organization registered in the USA since 2006 with registered entities in Europe, and is implementing the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). This intervention aims at enabling at minimum ten Member centres in the Eastern Partnership region to get on-the-job capacity-building and access to OCCRPs innovations. The intervention is in line with Sweden's regional reform strategy for Eastern Europe for the period 2021-2027. The strategy includes support to regional initiatives where all or a selection of the following countries are included: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Moldova and Ukraine. The intervention concerns Strategy area 1: Human rights, democracy, the rule of law and gender equality. The sub-goals for this intervention are: Better conditions for accountability, increased transparency and reduced corruption; Better democratic governance and respect for human rights and the rule of law. OCCRP will provide hands-on training, editorial and security support, access to data, collaboration platform and other IT-tools, help in fundraising and organizational development for independent investigative media outlets, members of OCCRPs network, in those countries. This multi-faceted support is expected to enable these outlets to keep or increase the number, quality, and impact of the reporting revealing instances and schemes of grand corruption and organized crime networks operating on national, cross-border, and regional levels. It can also be assumed that staff's position on the labor market is strengthened and that the outlets can keep staff. Because high level corruption, organized crime networks, and schemes of laundering illicit financial gains operate across countries and regions, and tremendous amounts of illicit money are injected into global economy, OCCRP also want to use Sida funding to increase the capacity of its network to pursue wherever the leads go geographically and expose inter-regional and global connections.