RECSA- BICC- IPSTC Regional Training-of-Trainers on Physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) in Kenya

05/10/2022
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21/10/2022
Activity description

A Regional Training-of-Trainers (ToT) on Weapons and ammunition management (WAM) and Physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) took place from 5-21 October 2022 at the International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The training was organised and implemented with support from BICC and MSAG Austria and focused on RECSA member states. The course included 20 students which were trained by regional PSSM Instructors. Participants were drawn from the police, military and wildlife personnel. Additional Instructors and Senior Instructors were trained. 

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
Ammunition
Destruction
Diversion
International instruments
Inventory and stockpile management
Marking
Record-keeping
Regional cooperation
Regional instruments
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls
Tracing
Partners
Burundi
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Implementers
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
Multinational Small-Arms _ Ammunition Group (MSAG)
Regional Center on Small Arms (RECSA)
Donors
Austria
Germany
Contact Details
Contact Person
Nikhil Acharya
Organization
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
Address
Pfarrer-Byns-Straße 1, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Phone
+49-228-911 96-0