• November 2007 Meeting of the LMAD Contact Group in Jordan
    Summary Report PDF 36KB

  • November 2007 Meeting of the LMAD Practitioners' Network in Yemen
    Summary Report PDF 130KB

  • 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 www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A%2F62%2F307&Submit=Search&Lang=E 

  • June 2007 Meeting of the LMAD Practitioners' Network in Cambodia
    Summary Report PDF 116KB

  • April 2007 Meeting of the LMAD Practioners Network in Geneva
    Summary Report PDF 43KB

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

  • December 2006 GICHD LMAD 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 LMAD

  • September 2006 OECD Development Assistance Committee’s (DAC) Concept Note on Conflict, Peace and Development Cooperation includes need for LMAD PDF 39KB

  • 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 LMAD Contact Group PDF 39KB

  • 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 LMAD 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 LMAD PDF 62KB

  • June 2005 1st Informal Dialogue on LMAD 
    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 www.un.org/largerfreedom/

  • 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 formulated by the NGO community on how to address the development dimension of mine action