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Title:
Tools & Programming: Strengthen UN Security Council Resolution1540 & the Chemical Weapons Convention
Agreement Number:
7394685 P006555001
Agreement Value:
$1,959,500.00
Agreement Date:
Aug 24, 2018 - Mar 31, 2021
Description:
This Project is composed of three separate Project activities (ASI + CW + STEP): • to further develop the UNSCR 1540 Assistance Support Initiative (ASI) tool to establish an online catalogue of all UNSCR 1540 beneficiary-donor opportunities that will refine, populate and update the online 1540 Committee Catalogue Website with “match-making” beneficiary-donor opportunities, making it more robust, sustainable and useable with an extended language translation capability; ASI Phase 2 will explore synchronization with other databases, including those of the BTWC, the CWC and the IAEA to extend match-making opportunities and further enhance UNSCR 1540 implementation; • to develop a Chemical Weapons (CW) Legal Frameworks Compendium Tool that will deliver a set of potential international standards for securing CW-related materials and facilities and analyse the indices, measures and standards to identify vulnerabilities in states and sectors with accompanying recommendations to address these vulnerabilities; and • to implement a Security and Trade Efficiency Platform (STEP) program in the Southeast Asia region to enhance efforts to prevent illicit trafficking of strategic goods through Asian ports. A comprehensive evaluation of WMD proliferation vulnerabilities for countries in the ASEAN region will be undertaken and one country in the region will be selected and engaged with a view to identifying WMD-related supply chain security gaps found in regulatory and operational processes, as well as on-the-ground outreach to better understand and rectify operational weak points in the supply chain process that could be used to divert or traffic dual-use WMD materials in the selected country and eventually in the Southeast Asia region.
Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Expected Results:

• Deliver on Canadian proposals made during the 2016 Comprehensive Review of UNSCR 1540 through further development of the Assistance Support Initiative (ASI) tool Phase 2 to increase the number of identified providers in the ASI on-line tool to 275 and increase the number of recorded projects online to 1500;
• Address serious proliferation and illicit trafficking challenges in a selected country in the ASEAN region through Security and Trade Efficiency Platform (STEP) that will analyze and address WMD-related supply chain security gaps and proliferation vulnerabilities in the country’s regulatory and operational processes, which can then be extended to the region;
• Support countries seeking to strengthen national chemical weapons (CW) security measures through analysis of indices, measures and standards to identify vulnerabilities in States and sectors and to further the development of specific mitigation measures in the Southeast Asia; and
• Provide concrete deliverables for Global Affairs Canada’s 2018 Chairmanship of the G7-led Global Partnership.

Location:
Washington, US
Reference Number:
064-2018-2019-Q2-00301
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
Henry L. Stimson Center
Program:
Weapon Threat Reduction Program
Program Purpose:

The purpose of the Weapon Threat Reduction Program is to reduce the threat posed by the proliferation and use of weapons of mass
destruction and select conventional weapons