On April 13th SAFE SEAS held a day-long project meeting in Cardiff with all team members. The meeting marked the end of the preparatory phase of the project and the launch of the data-gathering phase. Over the next months, we will systematically collect data on the maritime security sector reform processes in the four SAFE SEAS countries and also kick-start the work on the cases of South Africa, Pakistan and Israel. First results will successively be published on this website.