From 31 st January to 2 February 2023, UNREC participated remotely in the regional workshop for Sahel/Maghreb on Technical Guidelines for Member States to facilitate the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2370 (2017) on preventing terrorists from acquiring weapons, held in Madrid, Spain. UNREC intervened in the session highlighting the regional dimension of the implementation of the Security Council resolution, including outlining the general situation about the illicit proliferation of small arms and improvised explosive devices from a regional perspective, main challenges/gaps in arms control and disarmament in the Lake Chad basin region and other insecurity hotspots as well as good practice from past projects.