This national procedures Manual is intended for use by Cameroon’s national authorities responsible for preparing annual reports to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and similar instruments.
The Manual was drafted in 2025 as a result of a project carried out by the Republic of Cameroon in partnership with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) with funding from the ATT Voluntary Trust Fund (VTF). The VTF project sought to strengthen the capacity of Cameroonian government agencies to implement its annual reporting obligations under the ATT and other relevant instruments.
The national procedures Manual was informed by background research and a series of online consultations involving Cameroonian officials, SIPRI experts and other ATT states parties, as well as two research visits by SIPRI researchers to Cameroon. During the research visits, SIPRI met with representatives of the Technical Secretariat of the VTF project at the Ministry of External Relations (MINREX), and with representatives of the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), the General Delegation for National Security (DGSN), the Ministry for Territorial Administration (MINAT) and the General Directorate for Customs, which is part of the Ministry of Finance (DGD/MINFI).