Main area: Peace and security
Theme: Activities by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Assessment: ODA-eligible
Provider country: Various NATO members
Recipient country: Ukraine
Implementing agency: NATO Support and Procurement Agency
Budget (USD x 1000): 25 000
Year(s): 2012-2019
Purpose code: 15240 Reintegration and SALW control, 15250 Removal of land mines and explosive remnants of war
Case number: Peace and Security / 47
Ukraine II Trust Fund – Demilitarisation
The Ukraine II Trust Fund focuses on the destruction of small arms and light weapons (SALW), conventional ammunition and anti-personnel landmines.
The Fund supports Ukraine to fulfil its commitments under the Ottawa Convention and improves regional security for the population. This will be carried out through industrial destruction and consists of three initiatives:
Initiative A: improve human security by reducing all forms of violence, and work with governments and communities to find lasting solutions to conflict and insecurity through surplus stocks destruction. The destruction of SALW, carried out by a Ukrainian company, consists of dismantling, smelting and recycling.
Initiative B: the destruction of Conventional Ammunition, carried out by a Ukrainian company, consists mainly of dismantling, recycling, open burning, controlled incinerating and, on rare occasion, open detonating.
Initiative C: contribute to a fully budgeted plan for the destruction of Ukraine’s entire stockpile of anti-personnel landmines (APL) in accordance with Article 4 of the Ottawa Convention. The destruction work, carried out by a state enterprise, consists of dismantling, recycling and controlled incinerating.
This activity will contribute to the destruction of:
366 000 Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW);
76 000 tonnes of Conventional Ammunition (CA), including small arms ammunition; and,
approximately 3 million PFM1 Anti-Personnel Landmines (APL).
This activity is deemed ODA-eligible as the initiatives A-C relate to stockpile destruction for developmental purposes. When provided by military actors, only the additional costs are reportable as ODA (see DCD/DAC(2024)40/FINAL, paragraph 131).
This Trust Fund also contributes to supporting the Sustainable Development Goal 16 on Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, which aims to significantly reduce all forms of violence, and work with governments and communities to find lasting solutions to conflict and insecurity.
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