On 14 February 2023, women experts in ammunition management, representatives from Member States, international, regional, and non-governmental organizations attended a virtual event on ‘Women’s Meaningful Participation in Ammunition Management: insights from women ammunition management experts’, organized by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and Small Arms Survey. The event was co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Costa Rica and Austria to the United Nations in New York as well as the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and the Ammunition Management Advisory Team (AMAT).
On the margins of the third substantive session of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on Conventional Ammunition which convened from 13 to 17 February 2023 in New York, this side event provided an opportunity to discuss the barriers to meaningful participation that women ammunition technical experts face, how these can be overcome in practice, and different activities that could be undertaken, including when it comes to international cooperation and assistance within the scope of a future Global Framework on through-life conventional ammunition management.
