Organized by UNREC, the objective of the workshop was to better equip States with strategies to implement the International Tracing Instrument (ITI). The workshop provided a platform for States to share best practice standards in implementing national programmes for marking, record-keeping and tracing SALW. The activity proved to be an open forum in which the participants shared their challenges in implementing these programmes but also recommendations on how to overcome them. The training course utilized the Marking, Record-keeping and Tracing Guidelines (MRTG) which were developed specifically for sub-Saharan African States and which were very well-received by the participants.