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Support to Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) States Parties and Regional Authorities for the Implementation of Assistance & Protection Against Chemical Weapon Attack Under Article X of the CWC

The United Kingdom has worked closely with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Technical Secretariat to build capacity in Chemical Weapons Convention State Parties to respond in the event of use or threat of use of chemical weapons or the misuse of toxic industrial chemicals. This support has included training on assistance and co-ordination of emergency multi-lateral response, risk and response planning and the development of formal and informal regional response networks and plans. This support also includes running table top exercises to train effective response. In some instances, this training is accompanied with equipment and specialist evaluation of activities. In the East Africa Community (EAC) region, the Czech Republic is providing chemical protection training and the United Kingdom is supporting the training with equipment and specialist evaluation of activites. Similar training is being provided by Switzerland in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region. Since 2007 the project has supported the Caribbean region and is currently focusing on risk/response planning with the states Parties there. In 2020, the project also supported chemical risk and response assessment work in the South African Development Community (SADC) region.

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Budget

500000 GBP

Status

Ongoing
Start Date: January 1, 2011
End Date: 

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Contacts

Name Position Agency/Department/Org Note
Ms Veronika Stromšíková Director
Office of Strategy and Policy
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Mr Jonathan Dowdall 1540 Committee Representative
Political Counter Terrorism and Counter-Proliferation
United Kingdom
Mr Luke Bailey CBRN Security Desk
Counter Proliferation Department
United Kingdom

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