Assessments
Implementation and verification phase
It is important to sustain the momentum that the creation of a national action plan on (NAP) on the management of small arms and light weapons will have generated. Shortly after the NAP has been approved, an Implementation and Verification Plan is developed with the government and civil society, to ensure continuity in implementation and timely verification and adjustment of the plan. The Implementation and Verification Plan allocates clear responsibilities and roles to different government and civil society agencies. This Implementation and Verification Plan ensures that implementation activities are monitored and their impact verified on a constant basis. This ongoing process of monitoring means that adjustment to projects and, where necessary, corrective action can be taken to ensure that the agreed objectives of the NAP are successfully fulfilled. The institutional structure (either the National Focal Point or the Arms Management and Disarmament Committee) that is given overall responsibility for implementing the NAP, plays a key monitoring role. During the creation of the NAP itself, the inclusion of a re-mapping exercise after four years of implementation is proposed. This re-mapping would include the conduct of a second population survey to establish whether local people feel more secure and have noticed a reduction in small arms proliferation, or a reduction in the impact of small arms, as a result of the NAP.
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