CiFAR at 10 - A conversation with our founders
How and why did CiFAR start and what are some of the challenges and opportunities CiFAR faces going into the next decade?
"I think the three of us connected in a very powerful way...we had a common passion for social justice and for making sure that asset recovery was not just something that people would talk about and theorise around, but actually something that crystallised in changes" - Laila Martin Garcia, Co-Founder & Chair of the Board.
Ten years ago, CiFAR was founded and since that time we have worked non-stop to advance transparency, accountability and participation in asset recovery.
As Agatino Camarda, Co-Founder and Co-Director says in the video, asset recovery is "...a tool for justice, a tool to compensate victims, but also as a tool to give basic services to citizens, citizens that had seen those basic services taken away from them."
Our work has spanned support to civil society to follow cases, training investigative journalists and developing the ideas needed to make asset recovery work for the people affected by corruption.
"We've gone into topics which have been only talked about and really produced detailed research about what does this mean...Research that from a civil society perspective had never been done before" - Jackson Oldfield, Co-Founder and Co-Director.
In this conversation with our founders, we explore why they felt there was a need to start a civil society organisation focused on asset recovery, what they hoped to achieve, challenges that we are facing and what opportunities exist as we go into the next decade.
You can support us into the next decade by giving €10 for 10 years of work.