RECSA-BICC-IPSTC Regional Training-of-Trainers on Physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) in Kenya

10/03/2022
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18/03/2022
Descripción de la actividad

A Regional Training-of-Trainers (ToT) on Weapons and ammunition management (WAM) and Physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) took place from 10-18 March 2022 at the International Peace Support Training Centre (IPSTC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The training addressed RECSA member states and was organised and implemented with support from BICC and MSAG Austria. The course involved 20 students which were trained by regional PSSM Instructors. Additional Instructors and Senior Instructors were trained.

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 to provide 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
Ammunition
Destruction
Diversion
International instruments
Inventory and stockpile management
Marking
Record-keeping
Regional cooperation
Regional instruments
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls
Tracing
Socios
Burundi
Ethiopia
Kenya
Rwanda
Seychelles
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Implementadores
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
Multinational Small-Arms _ Ammunition Group (MSAG)
Regional Center on Small Arms (RECSA)
Donantes
Austria
Germany
Contacto
Contact Person
Nikhil Acharya
Organization
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC)
Address
Pfarrer-Byns-Straße 1, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Phone
+49-228-911 96-0