How and why did CiFAR start and what are some of the challenges and opportunities CiFAR faces going into the next decade?

In early 2026, CiFAR launched a new project – Empowering Civil Society for Transparent and Inclusive Asset Recovery in West Africa. During two planning workshops in the Gambia and in Benin, we went th...

At the opening ceremony, Agatino Camarda, director and co-founder of CiFAR, explained that GiFAR principles were adopted in 2017 by several countries during a global asset recovery confab that CiFAR a...

Efforts to recover and return stolen assets are gaining momentum worldwide—but ensuring that returned assets are used transparently and for the public benefit remains a critical challenge. Civil socie...

Citizen involvement through non-governmental and community-based organizations is a key feature in the recovery and reuse of recovered assets. The non-governmental organizations Associação Mãos Livres...

The Civil Society Principles for Accountable Asset Return have been developed through a consultative, year-long process involving civil society organizations from across the globe. They are minimum, f...