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Malian officials trained on new SOPs for physical security and stockpile management of weapons and ammunition
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), in collaboration with the Government of Mali, through Mali’s National Commission for the Fight against the Proliferation of Small Arms (CNLPAL), organized a training-of-trainers workshop on standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) of weapons and ammunition, in Bamako, from 22 to 26 January 2018. The workshop trained officials directly involved in the management of weapons and ammunition storage sites, as well as officials from security services…
Reorienting towards the future: Integrating state-of-the-art weapons and ammunition management into DDR programmes
The complexity of peace operations is rapidly increasing, thus requiring the United Nations to purposefully reorient its efforts to better address the needs on the ground. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) have launched of a new resource entitled “Weapons and Ammunition Management in a Changing Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Context”. This practical handbook is the first output of a two-phased joint project by DPKO and ODA intended to support the work of United Nations DDR practitioners…