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Process Support Provided By The Implementation Support Unit Of The Gichd To States Parties To The Ap Mine Ban Convention That Have Reported The Responsibility For Significant Numbers Of Landmine Survivors, Apmbc

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At the First Review Conference of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, it was noted that while not forgetting the responsibilities to landmine victims wherever they may be, a greater emphasis must be placed on improving the quality of life of landmine survivors in the 24 State Parties which have indicated that they hold the responsibility for significant numbers of survivors. Subsequently, the 2004-2005 Co-Chairs of the Standing Committee on Victim Assistance and Socio-Economic Reintegration sought to maximize the Nairobi Action Plan as a basis for action …

Evaluation Of The Sliri/Landmine Action Socio-Economic Impact And Dangerous Area Surveys And Of Sliri's Organizational Sustainability In The Nuba Mountains, Jim Freedman Consulting

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From its inspired beginnings in 2001, the Sudan Landmines Information and Response Initiative (SLIRI) has had the potential to become an influential mine action organization with the capacity to use the mine action platform for engaging Sudan's adversaries in a peacebuilding dialogue. It is the only non-partisan indigenous organization in thecountry. Its first location – or Sector Operations Centre (SOC) as the site offices have been called - and the most innovative has been in the Nuba Mountains, where shortly after the cease-fire in January 2002 SLIRI first introduced two offices working in tandem on either side of the conflict …

Multi-Year Plan (2006-2011) - Sudan, Sudan Mine Action Sector

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The purpose of the Multi-Year Plan is to demonstrate the commitments of each partner in the Mine Action Sector in Sudan to implement mine action activities in accordance with the National Strategic Framework and towards meeting national and international obligations, most importantly the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty (the Ottawa Convention). Under Article 5 of the Ottawa Convention, each country must clear all known or suspect minefields within ten years after the Convention came into force in that country: Sudan's deadline for clearance is 2014.

This document presents the sector plan for the Phase 1 starting in January 2009, ending in …

6th Meeting Of The States Parties To The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2005), Apmbc

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Sixth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction,

Zagreb, Croatia 28 November – 2 December 2005

Mine Action: Lessons And Challenges, Gichd

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Mine Action: Lessons and Challenges represents the views of selected experts as to what some of the key lessons have been, and what challenges remain for the future.

Following an Executive Summary of its main conclusions and findings, this work is laid out in two parts. Part I looks at the core activities — the “pillars” — of mine action: advocacy, victim assistance, mine risk education, demining (survey, marking and clearance of mines and unexploded ordnance) and stockpile destruction. Part II looks at key management issues, specifically, programme coordination and management, information management and capacity development. This work concludes with …

Optimizing Mine Action Policies And Practice, Alan Bryden

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Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) affect communities and individuals long after conflicts end and therefore have a profound effect on opportunities for post-conflict peacebuilding. In the immediate post-conflict phase the presence, or simply the threat, of landmines can hamper refugee return and the implementation of humanitarian assistance programmes. They pose a long-term social, economic and environmental threat that denies the use of fertile land and access to water and affects flows of people, goods and services. There is also an important security risk from abandoned explosive ordnance stockpiles or caches which, if not properly secured or destroyed following the end …

What Rights For Mine Victims? Reparation, Compensation: From Legal Analysis To Political Perspectives., Hi

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The work that we are presenting today is not only a legal exploration of current or future possibilities, of difficulties and pitfalls, outrageous oversights. It should also be seen as an indignant protest against the nonchalance of States and the producers of lethal devices, little inclined to acknowledge and assume their responsibilities. It should also be heard as an appeal to organisations and authorities specialised in the accompaniment of victims, particularly legal accompaniment, to take up this issue. Finally, it is a way of saying to victims that their determination is not in vain, that political intent constantly needs pointing …

Post War Legacy And Poverty: Case Study Of The Landmine/Uxo Problem In Rural Communities In Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, Duong Trong Hue

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Examines the links between postwar landmine/UXO contamination and poverty in two communes of Quang Tri Province.

Global Assessment Of Ec Mine Action Policy And Actions 2002-2004, Russell Gasser, Robert Keeley

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The Anti-Personnel Landmine Regulation mandates an overall assessment of all EC mine action every three years. This report contains the first such assessment for the period 2002-2004. The total funding by all EC budget lines for 2002-2004 for mine action was about 116M, of which the horizontal mine action budget line was nearly 40% at 45M. The total for the same period for all EU mine action, including contributions by Member States, was about 410M, of which the dedicated budget line is just 11%. The overall assessment reviewed four areas: 1) how the APL Regulation was used to generate mine …

Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Mine Clearance Operations In Cambodia, Bjorn Gildestad

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This cost-benefit analaysis of mine clearance operations in Cambodia was launched by the national regulatory and coordinating body, the Cambodian Mine Action and Victims Assistance Authority (CMAA) in cooperation with UNDP. The socio-economic benefits of mine action was assessed covering the period since the start of the programme in 1992, and a cost benefit analysis model developed for the use of the Royal Government of Cambodia and stakeholders involved in mine clearance.

Joint Evaluation Of Mine Action In Cambodia For The Donor Working Group On Mine Action, Robert Griffin, Robert Keeley

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This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Joint Evaluation of the Mine Action Sector in Cambodia to the Royal Cambodian Government and the donor Technical Working Group on Mine Action. The objectives of this evaluation are to provide an independent assessment of the achievements and challenges of the mine action sector in Cambodia; to present strategic recommendations for the orientation of future donor support to the sector, taking into account the need to strengthen the linkages between the mine action sector and national development plans and programmes; and to provide a common basis for a renewed donor-government partnership …

A Study Of The Development Of National Mine Action Legislation, Gichd

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This document is intended to assist governments, mine action professionals and others to develop national legislation to coordinate and regulate mine action in a country affected by landmines and/or unexploded ordnance (UXO). It identifies the principal elements to be included in such a law and the issues which should be considered in its preparation. The information in this document is based upon the conclusions and recommendations of A Study of National Mine Action Legislation, published by the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD).

Humanitarian Impact From Mines Other Than Anti-Personnel Mines, Gichd

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This report summarises the capacity of the landmine clearance sector to respond to mines other than anti-personnel mines (MOTAPM), specifically anti-vehicle mines. It then looks at the humanitarian impact of MOTAPM contamination in a specific environment. A case study illustrates the efforts of humanitarian organisations to address problems faced by rural communities in Angola . These problems persist and are made worse because MOTAPM on roads prevent humanitarian organisations from gaining access to the population. MOTAPM are also seen to increase the cost of humanitarian assistance. The conclusions of the report complement evidence presented by the International Committee of the …

To Walk The Earth In Safety 5th Edition (Fy2003), Us Dos Pm/Wra

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This fifth edition of To Walk the Earth in Safety contains information on specific programs and accomplishments of the U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Program through the end of 2003. Although the United States did begin providing substantial mine action assistance to Afghanistan as early as 1988 and then to Cambodia and some other countries starting in 1991, the formal program as we know it today really began in 1993. Thus, 2003 is a milestone, marking ten uninterrupted years of genuine and signifi cant U.S. action to eradicate persistent landmines—both anti-personnel and anti-vehicle—as well as unexploded ordnance wherever they threaten civilian …

Five Year National Strategic Mine Action Plan For Yemen, Gichd

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During this revised five-year period Strategic Plan the Yemen Mine Action Programme will meet the objective of the Ottawa Treaty and thus become one of the first mine affected countries in the world to make it happen. From April 1, 2009 the Government of Yemen commits itself to use its national human and financial resources in its effort to eradicate and negate the remaining mines and UXOs from the soil of Yemen.

United Nations Development Program: Small Arms Reduction Programme (Sarp) For The Great Lakes Region, Undp

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This assessment report shows that SARP has faced considerable political and logistical difficulties during its two years of operation. As a result, there is little doubt that the delivery rate has been low for a project of this size. There are a number of reasons for this that relate to the original programme design, the political situation, the role of UNDP COs, the involvement of other international actors, the management of the programme and the role of BCPR.

United Nations Development Programme: Small Arms Reduction Programme (Sarp) For The Great Lakes Region, Gichd

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This assessment report shows that SARP has faced considerable political and logistical difficulties during its two years of operation. As a result, there is little doubt that the delivery rate has been low for a project of this size. There are a number of reasons for this that relate to the original programme design, the political situation, the role of UNDP COs, the involvement of other international actors, the management of the programme and the role of BCPR.

Human Security In Cambodia: A Statistical Analysis Of Large-Sample Sub-National Vulnerability Data, Taylor Owen, Aldo Benini

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With the goal of measuring and analyzing Cambodia human insecurity, Dr. Aldo Benini and Taylor Owen have collected a large amount of data down to the local (1,600 communes) level. At their disposal is the largest existing geo-referenced database of Cambodian security and vulnerability data.They study four types of violence: landmine and UXO strikes (most of which are victim-actuated), as well as serious crime, land conflicts, and domestic violence (perpetrated by contemporary agents).

Serious crime lumps together murder, kidnapping, robberies, and theft, much of which obviously is violent. Using different types of regression models, socio-economic and war determinants are statistically …

The Rectangular Strategy For Growth, Employment, Equity And Efficiency In Cambodia, Kingdom Of Cambodia

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This strategy specifically links mine clearance to land reform.

Evaluation Of The Global Landmine Survey Process: Draft Final Report, Gichd

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Scanteam of Norway with Demex of Denmark were contracted by the Survey Action Center (SAC) to carry out an evaluation of the Global Landmine Survey (GLS) process with the objectives to examine the current GLS organisational structure and the Landmine Impact Survey (LIS) methodologies like procedures, tools and assumptions. The second objective was to evaluate the utility, efficacy and use of the survey results.

5th Meeting Of The States Parties To The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2003), Apmbc

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The Final Report of the Fifth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction,

Bangkok, 15-19 September 2003

A Risk Strategy For Mine Action, Julian Williams

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A generic risk management methodology has been derived, and aspects of it were used to develop risk management strategies for Cambodia and Bosnia. These countries presented different problems and so required very different approaches. In Cambodia, the available resources are wholly inadequate to remove the risk from landmines in the medium-term. Moreover, the mine treatment options that might be practicable, even if they were available, are limited, because of the poor infrastructure and type of terrain where they would be applied. Nevertheless, there is some scope for using risk assessment to identify where the practicable mine treatment options (mainly manual …

Laos National Growth And Poverty Eradication Strategy, Lao People's Democratic Republic

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The National Growth and Poverty Eradication Strategy (NGPES) is the strategic framework under which all of the Government's future growth and poverty eradication programs will be developed and implemented. The NGPES is the result of a process that started in 1996 when the 6th Party Congress defined the long-term development objective as freeing the country from the status of least-developed country (LDC) by 2020. The NGPES is a comprehensive framework for growth and development, and has a particular focus on the improvement of the poverty situation in the poorest districts. It has thus a dual objective: enhancing growth and development, …

Regional Seminar On Mine Action In The Americas, Cisr

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The third annual regional landmine action seminar entitled “En Camino Hacia un Hemisferio Libre de Minas Antipersonal,” hosted by the Government of Perú and sponsored by the Government of Canada and the Mine Action Program (AICMA, for its initials in Spanish) of the Organization of American States (OAS), was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Lima, Perú, on August 14–15 2003. The two-day gathering brought together over 100 mine action experts from 24 countries and more than a dozen regional and international organizations to discuss a wealth of mine action topics including, among others, the definition of national …

Cambodia Millenium Development Goals, Report 2003, Kingdom Of Cambodia

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The 2003 MDGs Progress Report is divided into three major sections. Section I introduces the development context in Cambodia. Section II presents (i) CMDG indicators and targets; (ii) the current situation, past and future trends as well as gaps between targets and trends; (iii) major current policies and programs contributing to CMDGs; (iv) key challenges for meeting CMDG targets; and (v) a framework for meeting the key challenges and reaching CMDG targets. Section III outlines the way forward for CMDGs progress monitoring and evaluation. The main report is complemented by a set of annexes including a glossary of technical terms …

Decision Support For Mine Action - Kosovo, Aldo Benini

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Shortly after deploying the first-ever landmine impact survey team to the field in Yemen during July 1999, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) was asked by the European Union and the U.S. State Department’s Office for Global Humanitarian Demining Programs to make a critical contribution to the international response in the province of Kosovo in the former Republic of Yugoslavia. The mission: to classify affected communities in Kosovo by the severity of socio-economic impacts caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) and develop a system for prioritizing the tasks that the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center (UNMACC) managed. The …

A Study Of The Benefits Of U.S. Military-To-Military Cooperation In Humanitarian Demining, Gichd

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The United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DoD) Humanitarian Demining Programme has four explicit goals:

1. TO ASSIST HOST NATIONS IN ESTABLISHING LONG-TERM, SUSTAINABLE, INDIGENOUS HUMANITARIAN DEMINING PROGRAMMES;

2. TO EXPLOIT THE SYNERGISM BETWEEN THE DOD HUMANITARIAN DEMINING PROGRAMME AND OTHER SIMILAR INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL AND U.S. EFFORTS;

3. TO ESTABLISH A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO PROVIDING THE APPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT, TECHNICAL DATA, AND OTHER SUPPORT TO CONDUCT MINE AWARENESS AND MINE CLEARANCE TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND, WHENEVER POSSIBLE, EQUIPMENT FOR NEWLY TRAINED PERSONNEL TO THE FIELD; AND

4. TO SUPPORT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY INTERESTS.

4th Meeting Of The States Parties To The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (2002), Apmbc

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The Fourth Meeting of the States Parties was held 16-10 September 2002 in Geneva under the presidency of Ambassador Jean Lint of Belgium

To Walk The Earth In Safety 4th Edition (Fy2002), Us Dos Pm/Wra

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By the end of 2002, the United States will have provided more than $600,000,000 to 43 countries, as well as to northwest Somalia, for various humanitarian demining efforts, such as deminer training, mine awareness and mine clearance, orthopedic assistance to, and socioeconomic reintegration programs for, landmine accident survivors and their families. More than $100,000,000 of this total was spent in Fiscal Year 2002, one of the largest commitments of any nation involved in financing humanitarian demining activities.

The goals of the U.S. Humanitarian Demining Program are simple and direct: to reduce the loss of life and limb of innocents; to …

The Role Of Mine Action In Victim Assistance, Gichd

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This study objectives were to further develop definitions and lend support to an operational policy regarding mine victim assistance and integrated mine action. It is also intended to contribute to the formulation of coherent and comprehensive mine action programmes involving integrated victim assistance and in such, strengthen the role of the United Nations as the leaders in both policy and co-ordination for all mine-related activities.