UNDP Liberia Small Arms Control and Micro Disarmament Programme Executive Summary · Overall Assessment The Evaluation Mission finds the Preparatory Phase of the Small Arms Control and Micro Disarmament Program in Liberia to be successful. The exercise has succeeded in sensitizing the population of the dangers of firearms and has initiated various ways of ensuring long-term efforts to develop national capacity to monitor illegal firearms in the country. It has also launched the communities selected for pilot study on a course of endeavours, as they are now trying to ensure that arms in their localities are returned in exchange for the promised community development. Overall, the Mission believes that the methodology adopted for most of the time was appropriate, especially when measured against the prevailing political and socio-economic situations in the country and the sub-region. However, the Mission believes that the country's Small Arms and Disarmament Project has significantly overstretched itself. To undertake four activities in the course of a year was an unnecessary overburden, especially when considered against unstable national politics and the weak socio-economic realities of Liberia. It would have been better if the number of activities had been reduced to two or at most three. Again, to concentrate attention of Arms for Development (AfD) on four chiefdoms, some of which are situated in the most inaccessible and arms infested regions of the country may be considered, with the advantage of hindsight, as a bit over-ambitious. · Comments on Specific Program Areas The first program area, the facilitation of the formation of National Commission on Small Arms, has taken off very well with the new National Commission having its own office and is about to obtain official national endorsement from the government. The second programme area, the Revision of 1956 Firearm Act has also been undertaken and is before the Parliament for ratification. T