Milestones

Consensus is building on the need for greater coordination between mine action, security and development. The following is a list of some key milestones in recent years.

• June 2010
  Meeting of the MAD Contact Group at the Intersessionals in Geneva
  Summary Report available on Contact Group page

• December 2009
  2nd Review Conference of Ottawa Convention endorsed the Cartagena Action Plan PDF 54KB which specifies 8 actions dealing with MAD PDF 178KB

• May 2009
  Meeting of the MAD Contact Group at the Intersessionals in Geneva
  Summary Report availalbe on Contact Group page
  
  
• May 2009
  "Explosive Remnants of War, Human Security and Development" workshop in Geneva, ISF Forum
  Summary Report available on Workshops page
  
  
• March 2009
  "Ensuring Mine/UXO Action Promotes Development : Priority-Setting and Pre/Post Clearance Assessment" workshop in Lao PDR
  Summary Report available on Workshops page
  
  

• November 2008
  "Tackling Poverty in Conflict-Affected Contexts: Linking Development, Security and the Remnants of Conflict Incorporating Mine Action in National Development Planning Processes and Organisations" workshop in Vietnam
  Summary Report available on Workshops page
  
  

• November 2008
  Meeting of the MAD Contact Group at the 9MSP in Geneva
  Summary Report available on Contact Group page
  
  

• June 2008
  Meeting of the MAD Contact Group at the Intersessionals in Geneva
  Summary Report availalbe on Contact Group page
  
  

• May 2008
  Asia Pacific Declaration on Armed Violence and Development PDF 72KB
  
  

• December 2007
  International Symposium on Linking Mine Action to Development Programming in Canada
  Summary Report PDF 90KB
  
  

• November 2007
  Conference on Integrating Mine Action into Development Planning in Bosnia & Herzegovina
  Summary Report PDF 164KB
  
  

• November 2007
  Meeting of the MAD Contact Group in Jordan
  Summary Report available on Contact Group page
  
  

• November 2007 
  "Incorporating Mine Action in National Development Planning Processes and Organisations" workshop in Yemen
  Summary Report available on Workshops page
  
  

• October 2007
  Africa Declaration on Armed Violence and Development PDF 74KB
  
  

• August 2007
  Report of the UN Secretary General "Assistance in Mine Action", including reference to the need of integrated mine action
  available on the UN website
  
  

• June 2007 
  Practitioners’ Workshop on Mine Action and Development:Sharing Experiences, Lessons Learnt and Good Practice, in Cambodia
  Summary Report available on Workshops page
  
  

• April 2007 
  Mine Action and Development (MAD) Practitioners’ Network Meeting in Geneva
  Summary Report available on Workshops page
  
  

• April 2007
  Guatemala Declaration on Armed Violence and Development PDF 16.2KB

• December 2006
  GICHD MAD project team established (with financial support from CIDA, DfID, and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  
  
• November 2006
  GICHD study on Identifying Synergies between Mine Action and SALW
  
  
• October 2006
  DAC Conflict Prevention and Development Cooperation (CPDC) Network’s Programme of Work for 2007-08 includes MAD
  
  
• September 2006
  OECD Development Assistance Committee’s (DAC) Concept Note on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation includes need for LMAD PDF 144KB
  
  
• September 2006
  UNIDIR Scoping Study on Mine Action and Small Arms Control within the Framework of Armed Violence and Poverty Reduction PDF 292KB
  
  
• September 2006
  7MSP – Inaugural meeting of MAD Contact Group.
  Document on the purpose of the Contact Group available on Contact Group page
  
  
• June 2006
  Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development on armed violence includes reference to mine action PDF 31KB
  
  
• May 2006
  3rd Informal Dialogue and decision to establish an MAD Contact Group to meet on the margins of Meetings of States Parties (MSP) and their Intersessional meetings
  Breakfast Meeting Letter PDF 43KB
  
  
• April 2006
  Wilton Park Conference on Reducing Arms Availability & Armed Violence included discussions on integrating mine action in development cooperation
  
  
• December 2005
  2nd Informal Dialogue on MAD PDF 62KB
  
  
• June 2005
  1st Informal Dialogue on MAD 
  Report on Proceedings PDF 61KB 
  Executive Summary PDF 130KB
  
  
• March 2005
  UN Secretary General releases report In Larger Freedom which refers to debilitating impact of landmines and other weapons on development
  available on the UN website
  
  
• December 2004
  1st Review Conference of Ottawa Convention endorsed the Nairobi Action Plan PDF 103KB which specifies 10 actions (numbers 40-50, except 46) dealing with LMAD PDF 49KB
  
  
• March 2001
  The GICHD and UNDP publish the first extended Study on Socio-Economic Approaches to Mine Action
  
  
• June 1999
  The Bad Honnef Framework PDF 112KB formulated by the NGO community on how to address the development dimension of mine action