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About the Safety and Security Programme
The Safety and Security Programme is the oldest of all SaferAfrica programmes and projects. The programme strives to provide capacity to government officials and civil society on responsible and sustained implementation of agreed policies, agreements and actions in the field of safety and security. The programme operates at national, subregional, continental and international level. The basic tenet of this programme is that states acting alone or as a group spend a large part of their time negotiating terms for agreements and policies in the safety and security arena but do not give equal importance to ensuring delivery of the commitments once processes are decided upon and signed off.
The programme’s principal goal is to provide expert technical assistance as well as research and implementation support to local, national, sub-regional, continental and international bodies with a mandate to carry out the construct of agreed policy and legally binding agreements in the field of safety and security. The main objective of the programme is to produce sustainable capacity for independent action on these issues. The programme is divided into three units: • Arms Management including the creation of national and regional action plans for small arms controls that include essential issues of development and governance and are inclusive of civil society partnerships with governmental actors. • Policing including the creation of national crime prevention programmes and the enhancement of operational capacity of law enforcement agencies in the field of safety and security in all its aspects through specialized facilitation and training including practical field operations in post conflict environments. • Security including combating all aspects of transnational organized crime and international terrorism, enhancing safety and security in peace processes, promoting peace building and security issues in post conflict situations that include disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and rehabilitation and capacity of security sector governance structures as required.
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