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

20/06/2022
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01/07/2022
Descripción de la actividad

As part of project “Supporting small arms and light weapons (SALW) control in Africa”, 20 students from all 15 ECOWAS Member States attended a training on Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) that BICC and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) organised in Liberia from 20 June to 1 July 2022. For the first time in the ECOWAS region, the Training-of-Trainers included three groups of PSSM practitioners: Senior Instructor Candidates, Instructor Candidates as well as Students – 38 persons in total.

Descripción del Proyecto

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.

Tipo de actividad
Institutional capacity-building
Technical material or financial assistance
Enfoque de la Actividad
International instruments
Inventory and stockpile management
Regional cooperation
Regional instruments
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls
Socios
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cape Verde
Côte d’ivoire
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Implementadores
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS)
Multinational Small-Arms _ Ammunition Group (MSAG)
Germany
Liberia
Donantes
Germany
Contacto
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