Division 9 Implementing agency: rationale of the choice

UNODA plays a central role in the promotion of disarmament efforts in the area of conventional weapons, such as SALW. It plays a key role in promoting the effective implementation of multilaterally negotiated normative frameworks such as the UN Programme of Action on SALW and of the International Tracing Instrument, at the national, regional and global level. The Union seeks to continue fruitful cooperation with UNODA.

UNREC, which is part of UNODA, has a long experience of lending support to Sahel States and civil society in their implementation of international and regional instruments on SALW control, in line with its mandate received from the UN General Assembly to provide, upon request, substantive support for initiatives and other efforts of Member States of the African region towards the realisation of measures of peace, arms limitations and disarmament in the region (Resolution 40/151 G, 16 December 1985). UNREC has already been in talks with the potential beneficiary countries to seek their agreement and has ongoing projects on arms control in three of the targeted countries. It is therefore uniquely placed to implement this Decision.