Making a Mark: Reporting on Firearms Marking in the RECSA Region

This assessment examines the progress made by eight RECSA states during the 2007–2012 marking initiative. It summarizes the findings from an extensive Small Arms Survey field evaluation, conducted from October 2011 to March 2012. During the evaluation, the Survey’s staff assessed all aspects of national marking programmes, including the suitability and functioning of marking equipment, necessary logistical arrangements (such as vehicles to transport marking machines) and, critically, the success of these states in establishing effective national record-keeping systems.

Small Arms Survey and The Regional Centre on Small Arms in the Great Lakes Region, the Horn of Africa and Bordering States (RECSA) 2013

The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It serves as the principal international source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence and as a resource for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and activists.

The Regional Centre on Small Arms in the Great Lakes Region, the Horn of Africa and Bordering States (RECSA) is an intergovernmental organization that was established in June 2005.