Capacity-building delivered by UNICRI provides sustainable and tailored support to Member States, partners, and communities to strengthen institutions and civil society. Drawing from an interdisciplinary network of experts and partners, the Institute delivers a range of capacity-building activities, including both rapid training to address urgent needs and longer-term support to build resilience and sustainable competence. 

Over the years UNICRI has reinforced its training capabilities by developing and testing a number of regional and national curricula, modules, and training manuals targeted both at trainers and trainees. Pilot training courses designed for law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, other justice personnel, and social workers covered a basic induction and advanced training in human rights as well as specialized issues such as corruption investigation cases, drug abuse control, trafficking in persons, domestic violence prevention and control, probation, management of crisis situations in penitentiary institutions, counterfeiting and, computerization of justice administration.