International Cooperation and Assistance

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International Cooperation and Assistance Small
Arms and Light Weapons

• Mat Kimberley
• Crisis Prevention, Stabilisation and Recovery
  Group Manager

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Australian Aid Program - What we do

• Poverty reduction and sustainable development
• International Aid Policy major milestones
• Millennium Declaration 2000
• Doha Round 2001
• Monterrey Consensus 2002
• Rome Declaration on Harmonisation 2003
• Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness 2005
• Accra Agenda for Action 2008

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Australian Aid Program - Who we work with

• Australian Government partners
• Non-government organisations
• Multilateral organisations
• Other donors

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Australian Aid Program - How we work

• Partner countries lead development process
• Priorities jointly agreed
• Country Strategies
• Pacific Partnerships for Development
• Program-based approaches

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Australian Aid Program - How we work

• Using and strengthening local systems
• build on what works
• formal and traditional systems
• Different ways to build capacity
• technical advice
• institutional linkages and partnerships
• operational funding and budget support
• training and scholarships
• regional networks and forums

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Justice community safety - a ninth MDG?
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Why justice and security matter to development

• Justice-security-development nexus
• Key elements of state-building and stability
• Critical challenges
• Justice systems are integrated
• State systems have limitations
• Non-state justice systems matter

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Australias law and justice assistance

• A number of Australian Government Departments and
  Agencies provide assistance
• AusAID justice sector programs
• variation in scale and scope
• formal and informal (non-state) systems
• AusAID policing and security programs
• policing, transnational crime, counter-terrorism

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Australias small arms and light weapons
assistance

• Centred on practical implementation of the UN POA
• Support for applied research
• UNIDIR Pacific needs matching analysis
• Armed Violence Reduction baseline survey in
  Timor-Leste.
• Support for catalytic programming
• training for marines in Mindanao, Philippines
• Support for former children associated with armed
  forces and armed groups to reintegrate into
  society in Nepal
• Support for international SALW mechanisms
• development of International Small Arms Control
  Standards

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Case Study Timor-Leste

• Austcare and Small Arms Survey Armed Violence
  Baseline Assessment
• comprehensive surveys on security sector issues.
• policy focused research connecting civil society
  and communities with government bodies.

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Case Study Solomon Islands

• Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon
  Islands
• Broad support aimed to ensure law and order,
  strengthen government institutions, and promote
  economic reform.
• Programs included
• Firearms Amnesty
• Support for the RSIPF
• Capacity building within Government
• Support to community reconciliation processes.

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Case Study UNIDIR Pacific research

• Aim of the Project
• to identify with states what their needs are in
  terms of international SALW assistance and inform
  donors.
• Who and where?
• The project focused on Government officials,
  donors, and civil society representatives from
  Fiji, PNG, Vanuatu, Tonga and the Solomon
  Islands.

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UNIDIR Key needs identified by States

• National Coordinating Agency or Body to address
  SALW
• Laws, regulations and administrative procedures
• Stockpile management and security, including
  inventory management
• Law enforcement
• Customs and borders
• National registries and licensing
• Security and development

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UNIDIR Future engagement

• strengthening and building partnerships
• awareness-raising
• action-oriented research for greater awareness
  and understanding of the nature and scope of the
  problem
• sustainable development
• cultural issues and
• conflict prevention.

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UNIDIR Next Steps

• UNIDIR would appreciate your feedback on the
  Report.
• Please contact
• Kerry Maze (kmaze_at_unog.ch) or
• Sophia Close (sophia.close_at_ausaid.gov.au)

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Conclusion
What we have learned

• Development is complex
• Understand and respect local context
• Focus on affordable home-grown solutions
• Be realistic and strategic about donor role

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