National consultation workshop on “physical security and stockpile management procedures (pssm)

The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), in collaboration with the Mauritanian national authorities, have organized a workshop on “Physical Security and Stockpile Management procedures” to be held from on 25th -26th April 2017. The event will take place in Nouakchott, Islamic Republic of Mauritania at the Monotel hotel Dar El Bakar.

This workshop is part of the activities of the Physical Security and Stockpile Management in Sahel project, co-funded by the European Union and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), to the benefit of six Sahel States namely: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Nigeria.
The technical implementation of the activities has been entrusted to UNODA, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC).

The PSSM in Sahel project is part of the support by the United Nations and the European Union to the security and stability of the Sahel with the aim of assisting States of this region to prevent the diversion and the illicit trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), as well as their ammunition, by improving the physical security and management of national stockpiles.

The Nouakchott workshop is the sixth to take place in the project’s beneficiary countries (following the ones already held in Burkina Faso, Lagos, Niamey, Niger, N’djamena and Ouagadougou as well as the Wilton Park Conference held in Lomé, Togo in March 2016.

For the two days, national and international experts working in the security field will examine the question in order to review the legislation and relevant national procedures on the matter; share their experiences on ways to improve or adopt the national legislation and procedures in order to bring them in line with sub regional and international instruments and standards.