As part of the project 'Enhancing the Capacity of Local Actors in Efforts to Improve Peace and Stability in North Africa, the Sahel and Great Lakes Partners' this was the last of two courses held by the CCCPA in the month of January of 2015. 23 representatives from the Ministries of Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs of countries from the North Africa and Sahel Regions participated in this course. The course addressed the illicit flow of SALW in the region and the participants examined national efforts in this issue having Libya as a case study. The course also covered international and regional frameworks to regulate illicit SALW, the importance of stockpile management of weapons to combat proliferation, the impact of illicit SALW on gender and age, collection and destruction of illicit SALW and ammunition and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR). Experts from the Egyptian Ministries of Defense and Interior supported the event.