UNRCPD Southeast Asia Training Workshop to Develop National Action Plans to Reduce Illegal Arms Flows

01/10/2019
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04/10/2019
Activity description

As part of its project 'Building Capacity of States in Southeast Asia to Prevent Diversion and Reduce Illicit Small Arms and Conventional Ammunition', on 1-4 October 2019, the UNRCPD organized a training to develop National Action Plans to Improve Implementation of the International Small Arms Control Standards  based on the United Nations Modular Small Arms control Implementation Compendium (MOSAIC), in Bangkok. 

Project description

The UNRCPD-led project on 'Building Capacity of States in Southeast Asia to Prevent Diversion and Reduce Illicit Small Arms and Conventional Ammunition' consisted of two activities: a) Outreach Seminar on Matters of Conventional Ammunition Management Including the UN SaferGuard Programme and the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines (IATG) held in March 2019, and b) Training on Develop National Action Plans to Improve Implementation of the International Small Arms Control Standards  based on the United Nations Modular Small Arms control Implementation Compendium (MOSAIC). The project aimed to support Southeast Asian States with the safe and secure management of conventional ammunition, to prevent diversion and reduce illegal small arms flows through development of national action plans based on MOSAIC recommended practice, and to implement wider risk-mitigation actions to achieve the target 16.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals on the reduction of illicit arms flows.  

Type of Activity
Institutional capacity-building
Technical material or financial assistance
Focus of Activity
Border controls
Brokering controls
Control list
Destruction
Diversion
Enforcement
Gender based violence (GBV)
Import controls
International instruments
Inventory and stockpile management
Marking
National action plan (NAP)
Regional cooperation
Risk assessments
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls
Tracing
Transfer controls
Transit and trans-shipment controls
Partners
Cambodia
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Myanmar
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Viet Nam
Implementers
The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD)
Donors
Germany
Budget
USD
Contact Details

UNRCPD

KSK Building, 4th Floor, Ward No. 5, Lagankhel, Lalitpur

Tel.: +97715548581
E-mail: info@unrcpd.org
Point of Contact: Steven Humphries, project coordinator
Phone: +97715548581
E-mail: steven.humphries@un.org