CMLP 2.2_English: Anti-Terrorist Financing and Support

The nature of organization’s work, who they are funded by and how this funding is provided, creates the potential for direct or indirect contact with entities – including individuals, organizations or groupings – who are specially designated or otherwise proscribed – collectively known as ‘Prohibited Parties’. Principally, this refers to entities engaged in terrorism or explicitly supportive of terrorist aims. However, the scope of this area of business continuity risk also includes entities such as Politically Exposed Persons, those directly or indirectly implicated in human rights abuses and those principally trans-national criminal organizations involved in human trafficking, or the trafficking of arms or illegal narcotics, or enablers of criminal activity such as money laundering. As such, organization must handle those potential and actual interactions in a planned and coherent manner that minimizes risk to the safety of people, reliably and verifiably ensures compliance with legislation designed to deny material support to Prohibited Parties and, yet, enables organization, as far as practicably possible, to conduct its work effectively.