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The 2016-2020 Strategic Plan is designed to build on the successes achieved and learn from the challenges encountered in the implementation of the earlier plans. Successful implementation of the first two strategic plans has resulted in GIABA member States enacting laws dedicated to countering ML and TF. With GIABA’s active support, FIUs have been established and operationalised in all member States. Through direct involvement and facilitation, the GIABA Secretariat has undertaken advocacy and awareness raising activities for political authorities and senior public officials in order to mobilise them to accord priority to AML/CFT issues and this has produced positive results. The Secretariat has also engaged relevant civil society groups as partners in AML/CFT efforts in the region. GIABA has enhanced the capacity of hundreds of investigators, prosecutors and judicial officers, and assisted some reporting entities, mainly banks and other financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions; and this has in turn improved the AML/CFT regimes of member States. GIABA h a s produced several high quality outputs in the form of reports and insightful research papers covering broad areas pertinent to AML/CFT. In September 2015, GIABA opened an Information Centre in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, to enhance its access to stakeholders in the Francophone and Lusophone member States. A similar Centre located in Lagos, Nigeria, has been operational since April 2011.