The GICHD assists donors, Governments, mine action centres and demining organisations to establish and maintain mine dog detection operations and to organise test and licensing regimes/criteria. Such support includes evaluations or operational programmes, with the aim of recommending potential improvements.
The GICHD has been requested by several governments, mine action authorities, demining organisations and donors to assist mine dog detection programmes worldwide in a consultancy role. Operational assistance provided by GICHD has involved evaluations of, and support to, NPA in Bosnia, Angola and Mozambique; help to CMAC by evaluating the mine dog detection programme in Cambodia and giving advice on how to institutionalise this capacity within CMAC; help to APOPO by evaluating their rat detection programme and giving advice on how to improve their operational concept; and general advice to a number of demining organisations. Evaluations and operational support has also been given to governments of affected states, including Angola and Croatia.
To date, almost all requests for support have been accepted. The GICHD evaluated NPA programmes in Angola and Mozambique. It continues to assist the APOPO rat programme in Tanzania and CMAC in Cambodia. The GICHD has evaluated several programmes in different countries and continues to do so.
Programme evaluations and/or operational studies
- Mozambique (NPA)
- Angola (NPA)
- Cambodia (CMAC)
- Sudan (UN)
- Afghanistan (UN, MDC)
- Iraq (UN)
- Croatia (CROMAC)
- Bosnia (NPA, BiHMAC)
Contact
Guy Rhodes
