4th AU-Regions Steering Committee on SALW and DDR

08/12/2014
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09/12/2014
Activity description

The AU-Regions Steering Committee on small arms and light weapons (SALW) and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) held its fourth meeting at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretariat in Lusaka, Zambia. The meeting reviewed the activities of the members carried out in 2014 in support of their member states, and elaborated areas for cooperation in 2015. The meeting developed a number of recommendations to strengthen and expand interventions in the area of SALW and DDR. The meeting also developed concrete strategies and actions on how best to support member states in order to fully participate at the first Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in Mexico.

Type of Activity
Institutional capacity-building
Sensitization and outreach
Focus of Activity
Regional cooperation
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls
Partners
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Côte d’ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
eSwatini
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Republic of the Congo
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
São Tomé and Príncipe
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Implementers
African Union (AU)
Contact Details

African Union Commission Headquarters
Roosvelt Street (Old Airport Area)
W. 21 K. 19
P.O. Box: 3243
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
T: (251-11) 5513 822
F: (251-11) 5519 321
E: situationroom@africa-union.org
Webmail: https://webmail.africa-union.org/owa/
W: http://www.peaceau.org/en/