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Division 3.3 Project Objectives and Activities

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Objective 1: Strengthen physical security and management (PSSM) systems for national military and other institutional stockpiles through improved site security measures and inventory control.

Supporting activities:

  • Activity 1.1: Assess PSSM situation of national institutions in at least nine OAS Member States.

  • Activity 1.2: Develop SALW and ammunition inventory control software and make software and training available to key all OAS Member States through CIFTA.

  • Activity 1.3: Provide training to key national authorities on PSSM best practices, including inventory control and SALW identification and classification during workshops in conjunction with CIFTA events.

Expected results:

  • Nine national-level assessments of physical security and stockpile management capabilities and needs completed.

  • Inventory control software developed and distributed to a minimum of nine OAS Member States.

  • Two workshops on PSSM best practices conducted with a total of 60 national personnel from 15 OAS Member States trained.

Objective 2: Reinforce national capabilities for destruction of seized, excess or unsafe SALW and ammunition.

Supporting activities:

  • Activity 2.1: Provide training and technical assistance for, as well as monitoring of, the destruction of confiscated, excess and unwanted SALW and ammunition to at least eight OAS Member States.

  • Activity 2.2: Coordinate with the Government of Spain to provide advanced explosive ordnance disposal training to 60 technicians from OAS Member States at the Spanish Army Engineer Academy in Madrid.

Expected results:

  • At least 200 national staff from eight OAS Member States trained on safe destruction of SALW, ammunition and explosives

  • Destruction of 300 tons of munitions and 30 000 SALW.

  • At least 60 national technicians trained in explosive ordnance disposal to level 3 of CEN Workshop standards.

Objective 3: Enhance national SALW marking and tracing capacity and foment regional cooperation on tracing confiscated weapons and ammunition.

Supporting activities:

  • Activity 3.1: Conduct at least one maintenance and training assistance visit to 18 OAS Member States that previously received SALW marking equipment and training through the OAS.

  • Activity 3.2: Provide a limited number of additional SALW marking equipment to OAS Member States requesting machines and computer equipment to enhance their marking and recordkeeping capabilities.

  • Activity 3.3: Introduce SALW marking equipment and provide training to three OAS Member States that did not previously receive assistance.

  • Activity 3.4: Consolidate data from SALW seized by national authorities and destroyed during Activity 2.1 in order to trace source and transit countries and analyse illicit trafficking patterns.

Expected results:

  • Two hundred national technicians from 18 OAS Member States trained in the use of SALW marking and recordkeeping equipment.

  • Damaged marking machines repaired or new machines provided to OAS Member States to ensure that each of the 25 states that participated in the original OAS SALW marking project have at least one operational machine.

  • At least one SALW marking machine and recordkeeping software and equipment are provided to three OAS Member States that did not participate in the original OAS SALW marking project.

  • SALW identification data for approximately 30 000 seized SALW from OAS Member State inventories is provided to Conflict Armament Research for use and analysis by the I-trace initiative, as well as to international law enforcement agencies for individual firearms tracing through INTERPOL's iARMS and the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms e-Trace systems.

Objective 4: Improve SALW transfer mechanisms through national legislation, border controls, and regional coordination.

Supporting activities:

  • Activity 4.1: Conduct a regional workshop in the context of CIFTA to develop a mechanism for cross-border and regional communications and communication to notify neighbouring countries about and facilitate tracking of legal arms transfers.

  • Activity 4.2: Establish a virtual coordination network for information-sharing about illicit arms trafficking and manufacturing activities.

  • Activity 4.3: Provide legal assistance on national SALW control legislation to OAS Member States requesting support.

Expected results:

  • A standardized format for reporting tracking of legal arms transfers within the Americas is coordinated and approved by the CIFTA States Parties.

  • A virtual platform for pre-transfer notification of arms transfers (modelled on PEN-online system for precursor chemicals) is developed and operational.

  • Five OAS Member States provided with legal assistance for development of national SALW, ammunition, and/or explosives control.

Objective 5: Promote socially responsible behaviours in selected communities, targeting groups that are severely affected by armed violence, and using cross-sector collaborative interventions designed to reduce the risk and recidivism of violent crimes in one selected community of each of the three participating countries.

Supporting activities:

  • Activity 5.1: Coordinate and conduct diagnostic assessments of armed violence patterns and issues in selected communities of three OAS Member States (one per country) to identify populations suffering a high index of crime using SALW where prevention efforts are likely to reduce the levels of violence, and the existing State and civil society services available to assist crime and violence victims.

  • Activity 5.2: Provide training courses to health care providers, social workers, justice and public security officials to better their capacities to assist victims of inter-partner violence and other forms of armed violence and provide training courses on non-violent conflict resolution techniques to community leaders, in particular, and male leaders to prevent recidivism among offenders.

  • Activity 5.3: Conduct community capacity building workshops on violence prevention, directed at augmenting protective factors among populations identified as most vulnerable to violence and gun related violence in the three selected communities.

  • Activity 5.4: Evaluate the effectiveness of prevention interventions of the project.

Expected results:

  • Three local assessments conducted [Assessment including the local patterns of gun violence, existing vulnerable populations, number of inter partner violence that use firearms as mechanism of violence and crime, local assistance and protection services provided to victims of violence and armed violence and a list of recommendations for decision makers within the three selected communities conducted].

  • Three community networks strengthened to provide factors to confront risk of gun violence.

  • Three hundred state and civil society care providers and officials trained to improve capabilities for prevention and mitigation of armed violence.

  • Selected interventions targeting groups most vulnerable to gun violence within one community of each three selected beneficiary country implemented and evaluated.