Evaluation of the EU Small Arms and Light Weapons Assistance to the Kingdom of Cambodia (EU-ASAC) – SALW Perception Survey (SAPS) (Confirmatory)
Evaluation of the EU Small Arms and Light Weapons Assistance to the Kingdom of Cambodia (EU-ASAC) – SALW Perception Survey (SAPS) (Confirmatory)

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense
Published by: The South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC)
Keywords: EU; Small Arms and Light Weapons; Cambodia; SALW
Summary/Abstract: In 1999 the Royal Government of Cambodia (RCG) requested support from the European Union Council of Ministers to address the proliferation and impact of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in Cambodia. In April 2000 EU-ASAC began providing technical and financial assistance to the RCG, as a continuation of what the RCG had already started. Between 2002 and 2003 EU-ASAC supported Weapons for Development activities in nine provinces including Kampot, Kampong Spue, Kampong Som, Battambang, Pailin, Takeo, Kampong Cham, Preah Vihear and Pursat. Non-Governmental Organisations carried out the SALW Awareness whilst the police were also given training and provided with equipment, and weapons were exchanged for development assistance. The overarching aim of the EU-ASAC WfD projects was to improve the human security of community members at village level by reducing the number of weapons in circulation and by improving police capacity to provide security. Also envisaged as part of police assistance, a Police Family Support project was piloted in 2003 in the Province of Preah Vihear in partnership with international Non-Governmental Organisation Helen Keller International, to provide limited economic development assistance to the families of police officers and also to villagers in their communities. Its primary aim was to improve police-villager relations in the communities where the police wives were given assistance.

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