Training Course on Physical Security and Stockpile Management in Nigeria 2015

12/08/2015

13/08/2015

Activity description

As part of the AU-Germany project to combat SALW proliferation in the Greater Sahel, the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) held a two-day training course on physical security and stockpile management in Abuja, Nigeria. This training session was organised in conjunction with the Nigerian Presidential Committee for Small Arms and Light Weapons (PresCom) and was attended by PresCom staff and members of the various Nigerian security services. Topics covered included “An Introduction to the International Arms Control Standards” and “Physical Security Measures—Internal and External.” The armorers who were among the participants agreed to go back to their depots and submit an outline of their needs to PresCom, to be shared with BICC in due course.

Project description

In May 2015 the African Union, BICC, and the German Federal Foreign Office launched the joint AU–Germany project on 'Enhanced SALW Control and PSSM in the Greater Sahel.' The project has been undertaken as part of Germany’s current presidency of the Group of Seven (G7). The rationale behind the project is twofold. Firstly, the project aims to improve the co-ordination of the large array of counter-proliferation initiatives currently ongoing in the Sahel and its surrounds (including West Africa and the Maghreb). Secondly, by improving co-ordination and reducing programmatic duplication, the project aims to more effectively match the increasingly limited resources of donors with the needs of Greater Sahelian countries. The project also forms part of the African Union’s Nouakchott process on the enhancement of security co-operation and the operationalisation of the African Peace and Security Architecture in the Sahelo–Saharan region.

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