Operationalisation of the Institutional Framework in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa

SaferAfrica engaged in eight training workshops in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa to improve SALW coordination processes and to operationalise the SALW institutional framework. Working in partnership with the Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons (RECSA), the Security Research and Information Centre (SRIC) and SaferWorld, a series of eight training workshops were conducted between September 2004 and October 2006.

The mandate for this activity is provided by the Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons (formerly the Nairobi Secretariat). According to the Activity Schedule of the Nairobi Secretariat, serial 1.3 states as one of their objectives “to establish and operationalise the institutional framework for the monitoring of the ratification, implementation and execution of the Nairobi Protocol by capacitating National Focal Points”.

To achieve the above objective, it was decided to have a series of workshops in the member states of the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa, entitled “Workshops on the structure, organisation and daily management of the National Focal Point”. These workshops were jointly facilitated by the RECSA, SaferAfrica, SaferWorld and the SRIC from Kenya. In most cases these workshops were preceded by an official launch of the National Focal Point.

The following workshops were conducted:

Country	Venue	Date	Facilitators	Photos
Burundi	Bujumbura	2-3 Sept 2004	I. Bagabo – Recsa S. Buijs – SaferAfrica J. Kitiku - SRIC
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	29 Sept 2004	H. Kinyanjui – Recsa S. Buijs – SaferAfrica J. Kitiku – SRIC P. Eavis - SaferWorld
DRC	Kinshasa	20-21 Oct 2004	I. Bagabo – Recsa S. Buijs – SaferAfrica J. Kitiku - SRIC
Rwanda	Kigali	25-26 Jan 2005	I. Bagabo – Recsa S. Buijs – SaferAfrica J. Kitiku – SRIC A. Urquart – SaferWorld
Sudan	Khartoum	8-9 Feb 2005	H. Kinyanjui – Recsa S. Buijs – SaferAfrica J. Kitiku - SRIC
Djibouti	Djibouti	23-24 March 2005	I. Bagabo – Recsa S. Buijs – SaferAfrica J. Kitiku - SRIC
Eritrea	Asmara	10-11 Aug 2005	I. Bagabo – Recsa S. Buijs – SaferAfrica J. Kamenju - SRIC
Seychelles	Victoria	17 – 19 Oct 2006	I. Bagabo – Recsa S. Buijs – SaferAfrica J. Kamenju - SRIC

The aim of these workshops was to train the members in the functions, tasks and daily management of the NFP. The workshops were divided into groups with two assignments. The first assignment was to decide on the specific functions and tasks for their NFP, and the second to formalise the composition of the NFP.

At the start of this project, the NFP’s from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda were already established, and for that reason these workshops were not conducted in those countries.

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Operationalisation of the Institutional Framework in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa

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