RECSA Sensitization Mission Of Senior Government Officials On The Establishment Of The National Commission For Small Arms Control In Central African Republic
Under the 'African Development Bank Technical Assistance and Capacity Building to RECSA' (AfDB TCB-RECSA) project, the High Commission on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform (SSR) and RECSA held a workshop on the establishment of a National Commission on SALW for senior Government officials. RECSA Executive Secretary and his team conducted meetings with the Defense and Security Committee of the National Assembly of Transition (CNT), Parliamentarians, and UNDP headquarters in CAR.
The goal of the 'African Development Bank Technical Assistance and Capacity Building to RECSA' (AfDB TCB-RECSA) project is to strengthen the institutional capacity of RECSA and Member States to prevent and combat the proliferation of small arms and light weapons. The project has three main components: 1.Institutional strengthening and human capacity building for RECSA; 2.Operationalization of the Nairobi Protocol in selected fragile and non-fragile situations; and, 3.Project management. The aim of the project collaboration between AfDB and RECSA is to create a better understanding of the security-development nexus in Africa. The TCB-RECSA project is funded from the Transition Support Facility (TSF) managed by Bank’s Transition Support Department (ORTS).
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