Evaluation and Operational Support

The GICHD assists donors, governments, mine action centres and demining organisations to establish and maintain mine detection dog (MDD) 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 MDD programmes worldwide in a consultancy role. Operational assistance provided by GICHD has involved:

• evaluations of, and support to, Norwegian People's Aid in Bosnia, Angola and Mozambique
• help to CMAC by evaluating the MDD programme in Cambodia, and giving advice on how to institutionalise this capacity within CMAC
• continues to help APOPO by evaluating their rat detection programme and giving advice on how to improve their operational concept
• general advice to a number of demining organisations

Evaluations and operational support haves also been given to the governments of affected states, such as Angola and Croatia.

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)