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The leading solution for weapon and ammunition management (WAM) in low-capacity settings, ArmsTracker is installed or under evaluation with more than 30 military, law enforcement and other state agencies responsible for small arms, light weapons, ammunition and explosives. ArmsTracker can

Under the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms (UNPoA), every Member State is required to file a national, bi-annual report. In these, governments are encouraged to list their priorities for international assistance in areas of support offered by the UNPoA.

Only a tiny proportion of aid to Africa goes to one of the continent’s most pressing problems. In the past decade of international assistance reported by the OECD Creditor Reporting System, donor governments averaged $24m of aid per year for

As their flight made slow circles over foggy Canberra one winter morning in 2012, Alistair Gee and Philip Alpers came up with an idea. The 30-something lawyer and the 60-something academic were both deeply concerned about gun violence and were

Aim (Armed Incident Management) is a public, digitised mapping tool developed by the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction (CAVR). Its aim is to assist stakeholders in any country to better prevent and respond to violence, especially in fragile communities and

ArmsTracker is being used by the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation in its US-funded project to record the destruction of surplus weapons for the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). To date more than 10,000 weapons have been destroyed, with a target of

The most recent estimates of Global Firearms Holdings show that the whereabouts and security of 754 million of the world’s firearms are unknown. To reduce the availability of illicit weapons for crime and conflict, most governments attempt to identify and

The Centre for Armed Violence Reduction (CAVR) has begun a UN-funded partnership with ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States…

In terms of gun violence and trafficking, the Pacific is currently one of the safest regions in the world.     This was not always the case, but unlike any other region the Pacific responded to episodes of armed violence and trafficking

Armed violence often cannot be significantly reduced without understanding the part played by gender attitudes in the thinking of those at risk of committing it…

CAVR offers a version of its ArmsTracker national weapon control system tailor-made to the needs of each State Agency, its governing legislation and current practices…

One of the central components of the Arms Trade Treaty is the requirement for all States Parties to establish a National Control List of weapons and ammunition…

Following requests from governments at the 2019 Pacific Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, CAVR reviewed the relevant laws for twelve Pacific Island States…

Preventing armed violence in Africa and Oceania is the focus of this Centre. Our efforts to avoid more gun death and injury are now accelerated…

On 8 April 2019 Palau became the 101st State Party to the Arms Trade Treaty, the third Pacific Island country after Samoa and Tuvalu…