SALW Control Roadmap 2024
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Strengthening control, administration and social attitudes towards SALW (UNDP Albania)

Duration

January 2021 – June 2024

Beneficiary/ies

Albanian State Police

Donor/s

Multi-Partner Trust Fund

Funding Amount

USD 1,661,314

Funding gaps (if any)

N/A

Contributing to the Roadmap goal/s

Goal 2 - By 2024, ensure that arms control policies and practices in the Western Balkans are evidence based and intelligence led.
Goal 4 - By 2024, significantly reduce the supply, demand and misuse of firearms through increased awareness, education, outreach and advocacy.
Goal 5 - By 2024, substantially decrease the estimated number of firearms in illicit possession in the Western Balkans.
Goal 7 - Significantly decrease the risk of proliferation and diversion of firearms, ammunition and explosives.

Contributing to the Roadmap overall targets

Goal 2:

  • Standardize and institutionalize data collection on firearms, by gender and age, regarding legal and illegal SALW/firearms interdictions, armed violence incidents, ballistic evidence, and other firearms related data resulting in periodic regional FAE risk analysis and threat assessment.

Goal 4:

  • Increase awareness among licensed private and legal entities about the danger of misuse and illicit proliferation of FAE.
  • Increase awareness among general population, both women and men, on the danger of misuse, illicit possession and trafficking of FAE.
  • Increase awareness and reduce the misuses of firearms in violence against women, domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence.

Goal 5:

  • Ensure that legal measures are in place allowing legalization and voluntary surrender of firearms.

Goal 7:

  • Strengthen the capacities of relevant state institutions (armed forces, law enforcement, forest guards, customs, correctional services) to establish inspection systems and implement Life Cycle Management of SALW and ammunition (where relevant).
  • Ensure safe and secure SALW/firearms and ammunition storage facilities designated based on identified needs and in accordance with international standards.

Key activities implemented up to date

Activity 1.1 - Support the advancement and eventual completion of firearms re-registration process

  • Procurement of additional IT equipment supporting the expanded police workforce involved in the firearms registration process.

 

Activity 1.2 - Support the development of digitalized system and the production of firearms owners’ digital cards

  • Procurement of equipment for the production of digital cards for weapons owners.

 

Activity 2.1 - Conduct the reconstruction technical design, assess equipment needs and finalize BoQ for each reconstruction cite.

  • Concluded reconstruction for priority storages, ensuring all elements and standards in terms of construction, storage and security are met in a coherent manner.
  • Activity 3.1 - Awareness campaign about the dangers of illegal possession, misuse and trafficking of SALW
  • Desk review of SALW Control situation.
  • Undertaking of a national survey on SALW misuse.

Main challenges encountered

The Albanian State Police systems have been hacked in September 2022, which has delayed the support for optimizing SIMA, the ASP firearm database.