BICC-ECOWAS regional Training-of-Trainers (ToT) in Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) in Liberia

31/10/2022
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11/11/2022
Activity description

As part of the “Supporting small arms and light weapons (SALW) control in Africa”, BICC conducted a regional Training-of-Trainers on physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) for ECOWAS states. The training took place from 31 October to 11 November 2022 in Liberia.

Project description

The project “Supporting small arms and light weapons (SALW) control in Africa” started in April 2021 and is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO). It aims at continuing providing support to the African Union, its Regional Economic Communities, Regional Bodies and Member States to coordinate and implement arms control measures on a strategical, technical and policy level. Therefore, BICC is working with the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Regional Centre on Small Arms (RECSA) and the Khartoum-based Sub Regional Small Arms Control Mechanism (SARCOM) as well as some of their member states to support the implementation of international and regional small arms control instruments such as the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons (UN PoA),the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the African Union Silencing the Guns Plan of Action, the Nairobi Protocol and the ECOWAS Convention.

Its efforts range from harmonizing national small arms control legislation and guidelines with international and regional instruments, through capacity building along the entire spectrum of weapons and ammunition management, including marking, record keeping, tracing, and destruction of weapons and ammunition, as well as physical security and stockpile management (PSSM), to cross-border cooperation on small arms control.

Type of Activity
Institutional capacity-building
Technical material or financial assistance
Focus of Activity
International instruments
Inventory and stockpile management
Regional cooperation
Regional instruments
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls
Partners
Benin
Burkina Faso
Côte d’ivoire
Gambia
Guinea
Liberia
Mali
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Implementers
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS)
Multinational Small-Arms _ Ammunition Group (MSAG)
Liberia
Donors
Germany
Contact Details
Contact Person
David Häfner
Organization
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
Address
Pfarrer-Byns-Straße 1, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Phone
+49-228-911 96-0