Division 3 Long-term project sustainability and outcomes

The Action will establish a durable framework for the sustained monitoring of the illicit spread of SALW and of other conventional weapons and ammunition. It is expected to enhance fundamentally existing arms-related information and to support significantly the targeted development of effective conventional arms control and arms export control policies. Specifically, the project will:

1. (a)

   develop an information management system that will ensure long-term (minimum 10 years) collection and analysis of illicit conventional weapons data;

2. (b)

   provide conventional arms control policy makers and experts with a tool to define more effective strategies and priority areas for assistance and cooperation (for example, by identifying sub-regional or regional cooperation, coordination and information-sharing mechanisms that need to be established or strengthened, by identifying insecure national stockpiles, illegal transfer routes, weak border controls, and insufficient law enforcement capacities);

3. (c)

   have the in-built flexibility to generate policy relevant information, regardless of rapidly changing policy requirements;

4. (d)

   substantially increase the efficacy of international arms monitoring organisations and individuals by providing an information sharing mechanism of continually expanding scope.