SALW Control Roadmap 2030

Projects

Goal 1 - By 2023, ensure that arms control legislation is in place, fully harmonized with the EU regulatory framework and other related international obligations and standardized across the region.
Goal 2 - By 2024, ensure that arms control policies and practices in the Western Balkans are evidence based and intelligence led.
Goal 3 - By 2024, significantly reduce illicit flows of firearms, ammunition and explosives (FAE) into, within and beyond the Western Balkans. 
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 6 - Systematically decrease the surplus and destroy seized small arms and light weapons and ammunition.
Goal 7 - Significantly decrease the risk of proliferation and diversion of firearms, ammunition and explosives.
UK Government
European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX)
European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT) Project
Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA)
GIZ, Italian Ministry of Interior
ITF Enhancing Human Security
National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS), United Kingdom
NATO
Norwegian People’s Aid Bosnia and Herzegovina
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
OSCE Presence in Albania
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
OSCE Mission in Kosovo
OSCE Mission to Montenegro
OSCE Mission to Serbia
OSCE Mission to Skopje
OSCE Secretariat
RACVIAC - Centre for Security Cooperation
Secretariat of the Police Cooperation Convention of Southeast Europe (PCC SEE)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP Serbia
UNDP Albania
SEESAC
UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina
UNDP Kosovo
UNDP Montenegro
UNDP North Macedonia
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Ongoing
Closed
All projects

Assisting the National Authorities of North Macedonia to Decrease the Risk of Weapon Proliferation and Misuse of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) (OSCE Mission to Skopje)

ExB Project: “Strengthening the capacities of the Serbian Ministry of Interior to more effectively reduce, prevent, and counter illicit trafficking and misuse of Small Arms and Light Weapons, ammunition and explosives” (OSCE Mission to Serbia)

Support to the strengthening of the Canine (K-9) capacity of the police services to detect and confiscate SALW, ammunition and explosives (OSCE Mission in Kosovo)

Addressing security and safety risks of illegal possession, misuse and trafficking of SALW and their ammunition in Bosnia and Herzegovina (OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Assisting the National Authorities of the Republic of Albania to Decrease the Risk of Weapon Proliferation and Misuse of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) (OSCE Presence in Albania)

Supporting Law Enforcement with Advanced 3D Ballistic Identification and Data Analysis Tools (France/Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs)

Project Hermes 2.1: Countering Trafficking in Firearms in Firearms, Their Parts and Ammunition in Express Courier and Postal Parcels (UNODC)

Project Justitia: Support to the Criminal Justice Response to Counter Arms Trafficking in the Western Balkans (UNODC)

Advancing the Capacities of the Ministry of Interior in the SALW Control-Related Field (Phase III) (UNDP Serbia)

Strengthening the Capacities of the Forensics and Crime Scene Investigation System to Improve Criminal Justice Response to SALW (UNDP North Macedonia)

Advancing the Forensic Capacities of the Police Directorate of Montenegro for processing Firearms and Explosives-related Crimes (UNDP Montenegro)

Integrated Institutional Approach and Strengthening Cross-Border Cooperation to SALW Control (Phase I) (UNDP Kosovo)