Draft:Compliance and Capacity Skills International



Compliance and Capacity Skills International (CCSI) is a US registered nonprofit organization based in New York City, with affiliates in Mombasa, Ottawa, and Tokyo. CCSI also as an affiliation with the group CCSI-Women. CCSI was founded in 2011 by Enrico Carisch and Loraine Rickard-Martin.

Training Programs
CCSI experts train government officials and corporate compliance and security professionals worldwide on topics that include:
 * Implementation of sanctions and export control mechanisms
 * Compliance with international sanctions
 * Supporting non-proliferation efforts to reduce the unauthorized spread of conventional arms and weapons of mass destruction
 * Implementing effective legal and regulatory structures to stop the transfer of chemical and biological materials
 * Strengthening border and seaport/airport security
 * Supporting financial and cyber space integrity
 * Preventing human and gender rights abuses

CCSI‘s trainings include handbooks, expert guidance, and tools on compliance and due diligence skills. CCSI’s publications are available in Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili.

CCSI also trains officials of international organizations and Member states of the United Nations bodies. In 2011 CCSI, with the Fourth Freedom Forum, developed and presented a pilot of the first UN system-wide sanctions training, funded by the Government of Canada. In 2012 CCSI presented five training programs to delegations of Member states of the United Nations, the United Nations Secretariat and its agencies, the African Union, corporations, civil society, and academia.

CCSI partners have collaborated on sanctions training and education with the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; the Geneva Center for Security Policy; the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR); as well as on training events held by governments for government and non-government audiences.

High-Level Review of UN sanctions
From May 2014 until October 2015, CCSI and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University initiated and organized a multi-stakeholder review of UN sanctions implementation practices. The effort was funded by the governments of Australia, Finland, Germany, Greece, and Sweden. CCSI managed a consultation process that involved over 30 workshops and 70 state delegations, UN agencies, other international organizations, companies, non-governmental organizations, and academic institutions. Three working groups developed 150 recommendations that were published as official UN documents in six UN languages, and in the form of a booklet, the HLR Compendium.

In 2017 CCSI, funded by the government of Australia, organized a series of consultations, workshops, and unilateral meetings with interested governments in New York and Geneva to refine the HLR’s 150 recommendations. The resulting Assessment Report of the Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities resulting from the Recommendations of the Compendium of the High Level Review of UN Sanctions was published during UN Law Week in October 2017.

Best Practices Guide
In 2018, in a project funded by the governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, CCSI organized consultations with representatives of UN Member states, the African Union, the European Union, the United Nations Human Rights Council, officials of the UN secretariat, non-governmental organizations and humanitarian aid providers. From this effort resulted the Best Practices Guide for Chairs and Members of UN Security Council Sanctions Committees, published in 2018. The Guide, which was developed for use primarily by newly elected UN Security Council sanctions committee chairs and members, as well as sanctions monitoring experts and stakeholders in the UN sanctions system, was updated in 2020.

Selected Publications

 * Global Threats and the Role of UN Sanctions: CCSI and FES New York (2011)


 * Sanctions and the Effort to Globalize Natural Resource Sanctions: CCSI and FES New York (2013)


 * United Nations Sanctions on Iran and North Korea: An Implementation Manual, by CCSI, the International Peace Institute, and the UN Security Council (published in February 2014 and presented to an audience of government and UN system officials).


 * United Nations Non-Proliferations Sanctions on Iran and North Korea, CCSI (2015). Revised title: United Nations Non-Proliferations Regimes on Iran and North Korea, CCSI and FES New York (2016).


 * The Evolution of UN Sanctions: From a Tool of Warfare to a Tool of Peace, Security and Human Rights, Enrico Carisch, Loraine Rickard-Martin, andShawna Meister. Springer, 500 pages (2017).