From 8 to 12 April 2019 the GCSP hosted an executive course that it organised on the topic “Building Capacities for Effective Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)”. This course was made possible thanks to funding from the United Nations Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation, the governments of Australia and Sweden, and the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation (FES).

Some 36 participants from all continents took part in this course, representing governments, civil society and industry from Barbados, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Georgia, Germany, Honduras, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Nigeria, Palestine, Romania, Samoa, Slovakia, South Africa, Thailand, Tuvalu, Uganda, and the UAE. They heard experts address all aspects of the regulation of trade in conventional arms, including from the ATT Secretariat, the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs and UNIDIR.

This was the eleventh edition of this course, initiated in November 2014, which by now has trained some 350 practitioners.