THEMATIC FOCUS
AMMUNITION MANAGEMENT
The Ammunition Management Advisory Team (AMAT) was established in 2019 as a division of the GICHD, in partnership with the UN SaferGuard programme, to support States in ammunition management, thereby contributing to reducing the risk of unplanned explosions and the illicit diversion of ammunition worldwide and to making communities safer. Owing to an increase in requests throughout the GICHD’s 2019-2022 strategic period to assist States and partners, the GICHD created the Ammunition Management Activity Platform (A-MAP). This platform offers a comprehensive overview of past and current ammunition management projects that have been undertaken by diverse countries and organisations
across the globe. This platform aims to support stakeholders in becoming increasingly coordinated, enhancing risk mitigation and ensuring the achievement of maximal and sustainable results. The A-MAP has the potential to become a reference tool for all those active in the field of conventional ammunition management. Since its launch in 2022, the A-MAP website has been visited by more than 2,400 users from 134 countries. In 2022, the GICHD successfully completed implementation of European Union (EU) Council Decisions (CFSP) 2020/979 and 2021/2075, which sought, respectively, to explore the feasibility of creating Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. The GICHD also undertook efforts to codify and disseminate knowledge of the impact of GD-responsive mine action through the development of two studies and video testimonials. 2 The GICHD continued to bring gender, diversity, equality and inclusion, and EORE to the fore in multilateral fora, such as those relating to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Anti Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC)) and the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). The Centre’s support to the EORE Advisory
an Arms and Ammunition Management Validation System (AAMVS) and to develop a plan for its creation. Working closely with EU agencies, EU member states, think tanks and partner organisations, the GICHD produced a draft version of a self-assessment tool designed to enable states to exchange information about their ability to manage small arms and light weapons (SALW) and ammunition safely and securely. In the same year, a new EU Council Decision (CFSP) 2022/2275 was adopted, mandating the GICHD to develop the AAMVS over the next 3 years aiming to ultimately inform decision making processes around stockpile management within the EU, and globally. Group (both as its Secretariat and a core member) in the design and implementation of its 2021–2022 workplan contributed to maintaining the momentum gained and facilitating partners’ access to effective EORE methods, tools 3 and approaches. Work to promote good practice, generate knowledge and foster cooperation on EORE sector-wide priorities resulted in the organisation of the first ever global digital EORE workshop in cooperation with UNICEF and two regional workshops in the Middle East. The GICHD’s efforts during 2022 contributed to the increased professionalisation of the sector and the further integration of EORE into global agendas.
INCLUSIVE RISK REDUCTION
The GICHD leveraged the experience that it has accumulated since 2019 and applied good practice and lessons learnt to help ensure that risks from explosive ordnance (EO) are reduced in a gender and diversity sensitive and responsive manner. This included conducting assessments and providing technical advice to national authorities and partners, including those in Armenia, Cambodia and Yemen. This technical advice, in combination with GICHD training courses, including the Inclusive Leadership course, e-learning courses, 1 and the gender focal point (GFP) capacity development programme contributed to an increase in GD mainstreaming capacity among partners in
1 “Introduction to gender and diversity in mine action” (available in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Ukrainian); “Introduction to EORE essentials” (available in English, Arabic). 2 The GICHD studies are available as follows: “Gender and operational efficiency” ; “Monitoring and evaluation of gender equality and inclusion in explosive ordnance risk reduction in ASEAN EO-affected countries”; “More than 20 years of women in demining teams in Kosovo.”
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3 In 2022, the GICHD started developing a social and behavioural change communication toolkit and an advanced EORE e-learning course. Both are expected to be launched in 2023.
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