Community Training Initiative

The primary purpose of the initiative is to create a network of focal points among the CII community for identifying, sharing, conducting, and developing general and specialist training courses and programs for investigators, analysts and managers. Fifty three organizations within the CII family nominated a Focal Point from their investigative or ethics offices to be their point of contact for this great and long-awaited CII initiative. We have finally established the network!

CII Knowledge Nuggets

CII Knowledge Nuggets are short, open online sessions where an experienced investigator shares practical insights on common challenges in our work. Held at least once a month, each session includes 15–20 minutes of expert guidance followed by 15–20 minutes of open discussion and Q&A.

If you are interested in presenting a future topic, please write to the Training Initiative at david.wolfe@theglobalfund.org

Workstream number 1:

Collaboration network

Connect and collaborate with all CII member organizations through the Training Focal Pont network and collaboration platform.

Objectives:

Research and select a collaborative IT platform (e.g., MS Teams, Google Workspace) most idea and universally available to all Focal Points to access. Platform will facilitate Focal Point communications, coordination, and information sharing. It should have features such as a Shared Calendar of events, posts and chat function, file sharing and collaboration, task assignment, video calls, etc.

Course Catalog

Have a comprehensive catalogue of investigator courses of all levels and skills offered by experts both internal and external to the CII family.

Objectives:

Develop a centralized library/catalog of in-person and virtual training and development courses on the platform that:

Have already been developed and are available within the CII for in-house training and sharing
Have already been scheduled on their calendars
Are in development
Are recommended courses by external providers
Are on-line self-study, etc.

Workstream number 2:

Skills and Competences

Access a CII-harmonized suggested skills and competencies framework for hiring and developing investigators, specialist and managers.

Objectives:

Drawing the best from others’ frameworks: Develop a CII-harmonized skills competencies framework–minimum skills by level, specialists skills, managerial/leadership skills–across the CII’s six core investigative activities
Reconcile the completed frameworks (base, specialists and managerial) with the course library (developed above) and identify the gaps where a training course(s) is/are needed

Uniform Curriculum

Refer to the CII-harmonised suggested course curricula to design yours and your units individual professional development plans.

Objectives:

Drawing from the Competency Skills Framework, develop a CII-harmonized training course curriculum of available, external, and courses to be developed that would allow investigators to achieve the minimum and/or specialists competencies
Identify global training partners (e.g., Association of Corporate Investigators; Institute for Int’l Criminal Investigations)

Workstream number 3:

Course Attendance and Instruction Catalogue

Develop, teach or attend on-line or in-person investigation courses suited for your interests & personal development.

Objectives:

Fill in Competency Skills Framework Gaps.
Research external course providers and add their suitable courses to the Course Curriculum.
Identify CII course developers and start planning internal development of courses for the Curriculum not available by external providers
Identify and create DB of CII course instructors and partners