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1 Nigeria: Weapons and Ammunition Management 1 (2020)

handle is hein.unl/unnigra0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COUNTRY INSIGHTS SERIES In November 2016, the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in cooperation with UNIDIR and the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), implemented a national Weapons and Ammunition Management (WAM) baseline assessment in the Fed- eral Republic of Nigeria. Led by national authorities, the objectives of this round of consultations were to estab- lish a baseline of the existing WAM activities and pro- cedures in place, to identify areas to be strengthened, and to present recommendations for programmatic and policy responses to build a national framework governing the management of arms and ammunition. The national consultation offered the opportunity for representatives, experts, and practitioners from various Nigerian institutions and security agencies to engage in dialogue, build trust, and improve needed coopera- tion between them to design and implement a strong national WAM framework. The exchanges and informa- tion provided in the course of the national consulta- tion and bilateral meetings with senior representatives of relevant national institutions with WAM oversight, were consolidated into a report and shared with the 113B1 Government of Nigeria to support its efforts in improving its national weapons and ammuni- tion framework. This publication is an extract of the baseline assessment report de- livered to the Nigerian national authorities. It is a snapshot of the summary of the main findings and options identified for the en- hancement of weapons and ammunition man- NIGERIA ABUJA POPULATION: 200.9 MILLION REGION: WESTERN AFRICA CAPITAL: ABUJA ANNUAL GDP: 375.7 BILLION agement in Nigeria. It presents the status of strategic and operational WAM efforts in Nigeria as identi- fied during the baseline assessment and highlights the practical recommendations provided to the Ni- gerian authorities as of November 2016.