This comprehensive project provides technical assistance to States throughout the region in building their national capacities and mechanisms to effectively implement disarmament instruments with the aim of significantly contributing to sustainable disarmament.

These global and regional disarmament instruments include the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UN 2001 PoA), the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and Other Related Instruments (UN Firearms Protocol), the International Tracing Instrument (ITI), and the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (CIFTA Convention), as well as other sub-regional instruments.

The International Firearms Instruments and Policy-making Project is comprised of the following:

	Elaboration of recommendations on how to improve national legislation
	Development of legal dictums and elaboration of comparative analyses between national firearms legislation and international firearms instruments to ensure that national firearms laws incorporate all the main obligations from relevant global and regional instruments, and that provisions in national legislation are harmonized with international instruments
	Provision of technical assistance in the drafting of national reports on the implementation of the UN 2001 PoA and in the creation of national firearms commissions to serve as implementing mechanisms to better tackle illicit firearms trafficking, as well as in providing substantive advice and support in carrying out key sub-regional meetings to arrive at a consolidated sub-regional approach to combating the scourge posed by illicit firearms trafficking