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Online Research and Evaluations DatabaseA wide range of mine action publications and evaluations are publicly available through the GICHD Research and Evaluation database, which is updated regularly.
If you have relevant resources to add to the database, please send them to Nara Weigel, n.weigel(at)gichd.orgLMAD Resources Listed by Subject
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Aid Effectiveness
- Bayne, Sarah. Aid and conflict in Uganda, Saferworld, March 2007.
available on the Safeworld website PDF 590KB - Burall, Simon and Simon Maxwell with Alina Rocha Menocal. Reforming the international aid architecture: Options and ways forward. Overseas Development Institute, Working Paper 278, October 2006
available on the ODI website PDF 336KB - Canadian Council for International Cooperation. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. Donor Commitments and Civil Society Critiques: A CCIC Backgrounder, May 2006.
available on the CCIC website PDF 77KB - Department for International Development (UK), Government of Netherlands and ODI. Key Sheets. 7: Sector Wide Approaches. October 2001.
available on the ODI website PDF 49KB - Global Donor Platform for Rural Development. Formulating and Implementing Sector-Wide Approaches in Agriculture and Rural Development: A Synthesis Report. November 2007.
available on the Global Donor Platform on Rural Development website PDF 472KB - IBON International. Primer on Development and Aid Effectiveness, Phillipines, 2007.
available on the IBON International website PDF 652KB - International Civil Society Steering Group for the Accra High Level Forum. From Paris 2005 To Accra 2008: Will Aid Be More Accountable and Effective?, 16 January 2008
available on the Better Aid website PDF 35KB - Leader, Nicholas and Peter Colenso, Aid Instruments in Fragile States, UK Department For International Development, Working Paper 5 - January 2005
available on the Global Policy Forum website PDF 383KB - Longley, Catherine; Ian Christoplos, Tom Slaymaker and Silvestro Meseka. Rural Recovery in Fragile States: Agricultural support in countries emerging from conflict. ODI, Natural Resource Perspectives 105, February 2007
available on the ODI website PDF 151KB - Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. March 2005.
available on the OECD DAC website PDF 170KB - Aid Effectiveness: Three Good Reasons Why the Paris Declaration Will Make a Difference. 2005 Development Cooperation Report, Volume 7, Nov. 1.
available on the OECD DAC website PDF 234KB - Fragile States: Policy Commitment and Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States and Institutions. March 2007.
available on the OECD DAC website PDF 165KB - Welle, Katharina; Alan Nicol and Frank van Steenbergen. Why is Harmonisation and Alignment difficult for donors? Lessons from the water sector. ODI Project Briefing, No 6. January 2008
available on the ODI website PDF 275KB
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Armed Violence Reduction and Development
- Centre for International Cooperation and Security, The impact of armed violence on poverty and development, Bradford University, March 2005.
available on the Bradford University website PDF 901KB - de Coning, Cedric. Coherence and Coordination in United Nations Peacebuilding and Integrated Missions – A Norwegian Perspective. NUPI, 2007.
available on the NUPI website PDF 425KB - Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development, June 2006.
available on the Geneva Declaration website PDF 21KB - Muggah, Robert and Peter Batchelor, “Development Held Hostage”: Assessing the Effects of Small Arms on Human Development, UNDP, April 2002.
available on the UNDP website PDF 482KB - UNIDIR. Scoping Study on Mine Action and Small Arms Control Within the Framework of Armed Violence and Poverty Reduction. September 2006.
available on the UNIDIR website PDF 293KB - US Agency for International Development (USAID). Community-Based Development in Conflict Affected Areas. An Introductory Guide for Programming. 2007.
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Capacity Development
- Blagescu, Monica and John Young, Capacity Development for Policy Advocacy: Current thinking and approaches among agencies supporting Civil Society Organisations. Overseas Development Institute, UK, Working Paper 260. January 2006.
available on the ODI website PDF 306KB - Brinkerhoff, Derick W. Capacity Development in Fragile States, Discussion Paper 58, RTI International, Washington DC, in cooperation with the European Centre for Development Policy Management. Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 2007
available on the ECDMP website PDF 943KB - Eaton, Robert; C. Horwood, and N. Niland. The Development of Indigenous Mine Action Capacities – Study Report, New York, UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs, 1988.
full report available on the ReliefWeb website - Kjellman, Kjell Erling and Kristian Berg Harpviken. Meeting the Challenge, National Ownership in Mine Action. PRIO Policy Brief 1/2006.
available on the PRIO website PDF 79KB - Taylor, Peter and Peter Clarke, Capacity for a change. Document based on outcomes of the ‘Capacity Collective’ workshop, Dunford House, 25-27 September, 2007, IDS, Sussex, January 2008.
available on the dgroups website PDF 852KB - additional material available on Capacity for a change on the IDS website PDF 3209KB
- UNDG, A Template of UN System Capacity Development Tools
available on the UNDG website PDF 166KB
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Community Participation in Mine Action
- Bottomley, Ruth. Spontaneous Demining Initiatives Mine Clearance by Villagers in Rural Cambodia. Final Study Report. Handicap International – Belgium, January 2001
available on the HI website PDF 1607KB - Bottomley, Ruth. Community Participation in Mine Action: A Review and Conceptual Framework, Norwegian Peoples Aid, 2006.
available on the NPAID website PDF 1455KB - Bottomley, Ruth. Community participation in Mine Action: Study in Kwanza Sul Province, Angola, NPA, April 2006.
available on the NPAID website PDF 677KB - Bottomley, Ruth. Crossing the Divide. Landmines, Villagers and Organisations, PRIO Report 1/2003,
PRIO (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo), Oslo 2003. available on the PRIO website PDF 18712KB - Leighton, Rupert. (Mines Advisory Group), “Developing Alternatives: The Locality Demining Model in Cambodia”, The Journal of Mine Action, Issue 9.2, February 2006.
article available on the JMU website - Moyes, Richard. Deliberate handling & use of live ordnance in Cambodia. For HI-Belgium, MAG and NPA, 2004.
available on the NPAID website PDF 2043Kb - Skara, Bernt A. Risky business or constructive assistance? Community engagement in humanitarian mine action. Third World Quarterly, Vol 24, No 5, pp 839–853, 2003.
article available on the Informaworld website - UNICEF. Community Mine Action Liaison, IMAS Mine Risk Education Best Practice Guidebook 6, November 2005, p.21.
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Development Planning
- Department for International Development (UK). Understanding the politics of the budget: What drives change in the budget process? A DfID practice paper. August 2007.
available on the DFID website PDF 300KB - de Renzio, Paolo; Vitus Azeem and Vivek Ramkumar. Budget Monitoring as an Advocacy Tool: Lessons from Civil Society Budget Analysis and Advocacy Initiatives. Uganda Debt Network, April 2006.
available on the International Budet Project website PDF 382KB - Handicap International and Christoffel- Blindenmission. Making PRSP Inclusive. January 2006.
available on the HI website PDF 1543KB - Hodges, Tony and Roberto Tibana. Political Economy of the Budget in Mozambique. 12 December 2004.
available on the DFID website PDF 904KB - International Monetary Fund. Factsheet - Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). September 2005. IMF PRSP pages (Including all PRSP country documents)
available on the IMF website - Isaksen, Jan; Inge Amundsen, Arne Wiig with Cesaltina Abreu. Budget, State and People Budget Process, Civil Society and Transparency in Angola. Chr. Michelsen Institute. Norway, 2007.
available on the CMI website PDF 825KB - Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Good Practice Guidance Note. Implementing a Medium-Term Perspective to Budgeting in the Context of National Poverty Reduction Strategies
available on the ODI website PDF 223KB - Oxfam. Influencing Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Guide
available on the Oxfam website PDF 992KB - Planning and Budgeting: Linking Policy, Planning, and Budgeting. A Background Paper. Third International Roundtable on Managing for Development Results. Hanoi, Vietnam. 5-8 February 2007
available on the MFDR website PDF 73KB
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Gender and Mine Action
- AusAID, Guide to Gender and Development
available on the AusAid website PDF 324KB - Hilde Wallacher (PRIO). Gender Mainstreaming in Mine Action – a Critical Background Analysis. November 2007
available on the PRIO website PDF 159KB - Moser, Caroline, An Introduction to Gender Audit Methodology, : Its design and Implementation in DFID Malawi, Overseas Development Institute, 2005.
available on the ODI website PDF 427KB - UNMAS. Gender Guidelines for Mine Action Programmes. 2005.
available on the UNMAS website PDF 285KB - Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines (SCBL). Gender and Landmines – from Concept to Practice. May 2008.
available on the SCBL website PDF 4838KB - Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action. Women, Girls, Boys and Men - Different Needs, Equal Opportunities. 2006.
available on the OCHA website PDF 3418KB - Gender Perspectives of Landmines: How and why are gender perspectives relevant to reducing the scourge of landmines? Briefing Note 5. Prepared for the United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs. In collaboration with the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women, March 2001.
available on the UNODA website PDF 26KB
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Livelihoods and Development
- Department for International Development (UK).Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets
Guidance sheets available on the ODI website - Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Access to rural land and land administration after violent conflicts. FAO Land Tenure Series, 2005.
available on the FAO website PDF 321KB - International Rescue Committee. Lessons Learned on Community Driven Reconstruction. Post-Conflict Development Initiative, Revised Draft, February 2007,
available on the IRC website PDF 122KB - International Rescue Committee. IRC’s Approach to Community-Driven Reconstruction. A basic primer for first generation programming. Designed for contextual adaptation, Version 2, April 2007.
available on the IRC website PDF 211KB - Jaspars, Susanne; Sorcha O’Callaghan and Elizabeth Stites. Linking livelihoods and protection: A preliminary analysis based on a review of the literature and agency practice. ODI and Humanitarian Practice Group. HPG Working Paper, December 2007
available on the ODI website PDF 578KB
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Mine Action
Mine Action and Peace-building, Reconstruction and Development
- Brinkert, Kerry. Paving the bridge between disarmament and development: resources generated by the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention. Disarmament Forum. UNIDIR, 2003.
available on the UNIDIR website PDF 87KB - Bryden, Alan. Chapter 8 , “Optimising Mine Action Policies and Practice” in DCAF, Security Governance in Post-Conflict and Peace Building, Yearbook 3, 2005.
available on the DCAF website PDF 812KB - Campbell, Sally. Integrated Mine Action in Cambodia, Journal of Mine Action, 2006.
article available on the JMU website - Campbell Thorpe, Sally. Integrated Mine Action: Lessons and Recommendations from Austcare’s Program in Cambodia, Austcare, January 2007.
article available on the Austcare website PDF 1559KB - DFID, Understanding and Developing Security Sector Reform.
article available on the DFID website PDF237KB - Fafo AIS, Landmine Action and PRIO. Policy Brief. Mine Action and Peacebuilding : Exploring the Agenda, 2003.
article available on the PRIO website PDF 152KB - Fruchet, Patrick. Mine Action in Support of Peace: An Emerging Issue. GICHD, 2006.
- Fusato Massimo, Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants – Knowledge Base Essay, July 2003.
article available on the Beyond Intractability website - GICHD, A Guide to Mine Action and Explosive Remnants of War, Chapters 3, 4 and 5, GICHD, Geneva
index and full publication available on the GICHD website - GICHD, Identifying Synergies between Mine Action and Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW). Geneva, 2006 PDF 2216KB
- A Guide to Socio-Economic Approaches to Mine Action Planning and Management. 2004 PDF 649KB
- Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform, A Beginner’s Guide to Security Sector Reform, Birmingham, 2007.
available on the GFN-SSR website PDF 287KB - Grayson, Judy. Mine Action and Development: Merging Strategies, UNIDIR, 2003.
available on the UNIDIR website PDF84 KB - Harpviken, Kristian Berg and Jan Isaksen. Reclaiming the Fields of War: Mainstreaming Mine Action in Development. PRIO and UNDP, 2004.
- Heiner Hänggi and Theodor H. Winkler, Challenges of Security Sector Governance, DCAF & LIT Verlag, 2003.
report available on the DCAF website - International Peace Research Institute (PRIO). Maximizing the Impact – Tailoring Mine Action to Development Needs, Oslo, 2005.
available on the PRIO website PDF 2328KB - Mine Action Programmes from a development-oriented point of view: Bad Honnef Framework
available on the ICBL website - Morel, Marc-Antoine. Integrating Small Arms Measures into National Development Strategies. Lessons Learned from UNDP Small Arms Programming. Integrating Small Arms Measures into Development Programmes - International Workshop, Oslo, 30 November – 1 December 2006.
available on the PRIO website PDF 3471KB - OECD, Security Sector Reform and Governance – DAC Guidelines, 2005.
available on the OECD DAC website PDF 1056KB - Paterson, Ted. “Time to go MAD” in Stuart Maslen, Mine Action After Diana: Progress in the Struggle Against Landmines. University of Michigan Press, 2004.
version available on the GICHD website - Paterson, Ted (GICHD).
- Powerpoint Presentation, 2007, Mapping Development Actors PDF 305KB
- Powerpoint Presentation, Architecture of Mine Action –Visualizing the Links with Development, 2007 PDF 199KB
- Powerpoint Presentation, 2006, Action & Development – The Theory PDF 220KB
- Paterson, Ted and Eric Filippino. The Road to Mine Action and Development : The Life-Cycle Perspective of Mine Action, Journal of Mine Action, 2006 PDF 56KB
- Roughley, Anna. “Bridging Mine Action with Development”, SOLIDAR news, September 2006.
available on the SAH website PDF 5834KB - Sekkenes, Sara M. Determining disarmament and development priorities - the case of mine action. Disarmament Forum. UNIDIR, 2003.
available on the UNIDIR website PDF 76KB - Small Arms Survey, Small Arms Survey 2007 : Guns and the City, Geneva, 2007.
available on the Small Arms Survey website - Stott, Noel; Kathryn Sturman and Jakkie Cilliers. The Landmine Factor in the Peacekeeping Debate in Africa. ISS Paper 80, November 2003.
available on the ISS website - Strand, Arne; “Transforming Local Relationships: Reintegration of Combatants through Mine Action in Afghanistan in Preparing the Ground for Peace” in Kristian Berg Harpviken and Rebecca Roberts, Preparing the Ground for Peace: Mine Action in Support of Peace building, Chapter 4, PRIO, 2004.
available on the PRIO website PDF 414KB - Thomas, Philippa. Poverty reduction and development in Cambodia: Enabling disabled people to play a role. Executive Summary. Disability Knowledge and Research, April 2005 PDF 1097KB
- Turcotte, Earl. Mine Action and Development, Journal of Mine Action, Issue 9.2, February 2006.
available on the Austcare website PDF 1559KB - UNDP. Mainstreaming Mine Action into Development: Rationale and Recommendations, 2004.
available on the UNDP website PDF 323KB - United Nations Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration Resource Centre, IDDRS Framework.
available on the UNDDR website - World Bank, Landmine Contamination: A Development Imperative, Social Development Notes, 2004.
available on the World Bank website PDF 239KB - World Bank, Landmine Clearance Projects: Task Manager’s Guide, 2003
available on the World Bank website PDF 109KB
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Mine Action Evaluations
- Byrd, William A. and Bjorn Gildestad, Study of the Socio-economic Impact of Mine Action in Afghanistan (SIMAA), December 2001,
available on the GICHD website PDF 523KB - GICHD. Evaluation of the Albanian Mine Action Programme. August 2007 PDF 721KB
- GICHD/NRI on behalf of YEMAC (2006), Departure of the Devil: Landmines and Livelihoods in Yemen, Geneva PDF 5567KB
- GICHD. Evaluation of NPA’s Humanitarian Mine Action Project and Review of Ethiopia’s Mine Action Programme, December 2006 PDF 1843KB
- GICHD. Mid-term outcome evaluation for strengthening national capacity for mine action in Yemen – Phase II UNDP Project YEM/03/010/01/99, 2005 PDF 503KB
- GICHD. A Review of Ten Years Assistance to the Mine Action Programme in Mozambique, October 2005.
available on the UNDP website - Isaksen, Jan; Ingrid Samset and Fernando Pacheco. Mid-Term Review of the Angola Programme of Norwegian People’s Aid, CMI, 2006.
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Mine Action Assessment, Planning and Priority Setting Processes
- Downs, Charles. Increasing the Impact of Mine Action Surveys, Journal of Mine Action, Winter 2006, available on the JMU website
- GICHD, A Guide to Mine Action and Explosive Remnants of War, Chapter 6, Geneva, 2007 PDF 691KB
- GICHD, A Study of the Role of Survey in Mine Action, GICHD, Geneva, 2006 PDF 2667KB
- GICHD, Mine Action: Lessons and Challenges, GICHD, Geneva, 2005 PDF 4040KB
- GICHD, Socio-economic Approaches to Mine Action, Chapter 5, 2002. Geneva PDF 649KB
- Lisica D. (2003) Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Problem: Priority Setting, Article published in the Journal of Mine Action,
available on the JMU website
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Mine Action Strategies
- Australia, Mine Action Strategy 2005-10
available on the AusAid website PDF 466KB - Australia, Australian Aid: Mine Action, 2006
available on the AusAid website PDF 100KB - Denmark, Denmark's Support to Mine Action - Strategy, 2006
available on the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs website PDF 5515KB - European Commission, The European Roadmap towards a Zero Victim Target: The EC Mine Action Strategy and Multi-annual indicative Programme 2005-7
available on the EC website PDF 569KB - Regulation of the European Communities concerning action against anti-personnel landmines in developing countries, 23 July 2001
available on the EC website PDF 113KB - European Parliament Joint Motion for a Resolution, 12 December 2007
available on the EC website PDF 101KB - Germany, Humanitarian Mine Clearance Aid Projects promoted by the Federal Foreign Office - The Committment of the German Government, 2007
available on the website of the German Foreign Office - International Trust Fund for Mine Action and Victim Assistance - 1998 to 2008
available on the ITF website PDF 2347KB - Japan, Statement by Minister Yasushi Takase, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, October 2005
available on the website of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Norway, Strategic Framework, Peacebuilding - A Development Perspective, August 2004
available on the website of the Norwegian Government PDF 1002KB - Norway, Norwegian Statements, UN has a Role in Mine Action, October 2004
available on the website of the Norwegian Mission to the UN - Norway, Norwegian Opening Statement to the Dublin Conference on Cluster Munitions, May 2008
available on the website of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence - Sweden, Policy for Sida's Support for Mine Operations, updated in November 2005
available on the SIDA website - Switzerland, The Mine Action Strategy of the Swiss Confederation for the Period 2008 - 2011
available on the website of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs PDF 889KB - UNICEF, UNICEF Mine Action Strategy 2006 - 2009
available on the UNICEF website PDF 1440KB - United Kingdom, Background Briefing: Humanitarian Mine Action, Second Progress Report, 2000
available on the DFID website PDF 170KB - United Nations, UN Inter-Agency Mine Action Strategy: 2006 - 2010, December 2004
available on the UN website PDF 478KB - United Nations Development Programme, Mainstreaming Mine Action into Development - Rationale and Recommendations, December 2004
available on the UNDP website PDF 323KB - United States, Harmonizing Mine Action into Development Programs, December 2005
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Post Conflict Land Tenure
- Daeudelin Jean, Land and Violence in Post Conflict Situation, Report Prepared for the North South Institute and the World Bank, Ottawa 2003.
available on the Landnet Americas website PDF 222KB - Mao Vanna et al., AIMAD Land Titling Pilot Project, Research on Post Clearance Land Titling, Austcare, Phnom Penh, February 2007 PDF 218KB
- Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Humanitarian Policy Group Portal,
available on the ODI website - UNDP, Land Tenure Intervention for Peace Consolidation and Rural Development, 2005.
available on the UNDP website - Unruh, Jon, D., Post Conflict Land Tenure, Using a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach, FAO Livelihood Support Programme Working Paper 18, 2004.
available on the FAO website PDF 253KB - Useful website
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Survivor Assistance
- Bailey, Sheree. Landmine Victim Assistance in Integrated Mine Action in Cambodia, Standing Tall Australia, 2005.
available on the Standing Tall Australia website PDF 227KB - Campbell Thorpe, Sally. Landmine Victim Assistance in Integrated Mine Action: Recommendations, Austcare and Standing Tall Australia, 2006.
available on the Austcare website PDF 268KB - Handicap International. Good Practices for the Economic Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Developing Countries Funding Mechanisms for Self-Employment. August 2006.
available on the Handicap International website PDF 5003KB - Standing Tall Australia. 101 Great Ideas for the Socio-Economic Reintegration of Mine Survivors, 2005.
available on the Standing Tall Australia website PDF 4930KB - Victor, Jack; Steven Estey and Heather Burns Knierim. Guidelines for the Socio-economic Reintegration of Landmine Survivors. UNDP and World Rehabilitation Fund, 2003.
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