Work with National Legislatures
- From April 2006 to March 2010, ASDR (the Ghana affiliate of the ASSN) conducted capacity-building training for the Select Committee on Defence and Interior of the Parliament of Ghana, with funding from the UK Government.
- The ASSN commenced similar capacity-building programmes from 2009 with Parliamentary Defence and Security Commissions in several West African Francophone Parliaments (Mali, Benin and Togo in 2009). These were followed by regional parliamentary workshops in Ouagadougou (June 16-18, 2010: hosted by the National Assembly of Burkina Faso and funded by the OIF), as well as workshops in Mali in November 2011, Niger in February 2012, and Burkina Faso in 2012, 2013 and 2014 in collaboration with DCAF. The ASSN subsequently worked with DCAF and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) to strengthen the capacity of the Malian Parliament.
- In collaboration with King’s College London and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the ASSN provided capacity-building for the Defence and Security Committees in the Liberian Legislature (House and Senate) from March 2006 to July 2009.
- Southern Africa: The Southern African Defence and Security Management Network (SADSEM) - which is the ASSN’s Southern Africa affiliate - has mounted a series of Executive Courses in ‘Parliamentary Oversight of Defence and Security’ in cooperation with national parliaments in several Southern African countries, including the DRC, Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
- In 2007-2008, ASDR and SADSEM respectively conducted a ‘Feasibility and Needs Assessment Study’ of nine ECOWAS and ten SADSEM Parliamentary Defence and Security Committees under contract to DCAF.
- The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and DCAF, with the assistance of ASSN scholars and experts, developed and published the ECOWAS-DCAF ‘Guide to Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector’, launched at a regional ECOWAS Parliamentary Workshop in Bamako, Mali, on 28-29 November 2011.