Objectives: i) establish & build high technology driven response law enforcement capacity to combat wildlife crime; ii) engage communities to reduce HWC and support conservation friendly livelihoods with deliberate focus on indigenous people, local communities, youth & women; iii) use innovation & cutting edge science to secure landscape connectivity & resilience where persistence of elephant & other wildlife populations is sustained; and iv) facilitate coordinated inter-agency collaboration to gain political buy-in & influence policy to mobilise sustainable conservation financing.