Henry L. Stimson Center

Published purpose

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.