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Evaluation Of The Technical Assistance Essay

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i. Stages of the project The project was scheduled to have two-stage. The technical assistance was to be conducted in two stages. For the first stage, two awareness-raising regional workshops were to be organized in Tunis, Tunisia, featuring representatives from the four relevant government departments (financial intelligence, customs, finance, and mining) of each country. The first workshop was on March 8–12 for eight French-speaking countries. The second was on June 14–18, with participants from eight English-speaking countries. For the second stage, the project was to focus on helping interested countries further develop their national strategies for improving AML/CFT controls related to precious minerals. “By the third quarter of 2010, it was expected that countries should have prepared national strategies,” Mathias added that they expected a number of countries to engage in longer term technical assistance relationships with the IMF or with other relevant organizations after this project was completed. ii. Aims of the project The projects had certain aims and these are listed below a. This project was meant to develop international standards Dealers in precious metals and stones are a relatively recent addition to the list of designated professions to be incorporated into a country’s AML/CFT regime, as designated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). FATF is an intergovernmental body created by the G-7 in 1989 and housed at the Organization for Economic

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