In October 2003, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) completed a set of seven MRE standards, which were formally adopted as International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) in June 2004. In 2005, UNICEF in partnership with the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), published a series of Best Practice Guidebooks on behalf of the United Nations to support the MRE IMAS.

The newly published International Mine Action Standards for Mine Risk Education - Training Manual has been produced by the GICHD and UNICEF to facilitate the implementation of the IMAS on MRE through the provision of training in. The seven training manuals are the following:

• Needs Assessment for Risk Education
• Planning Risk Education
• Communication in Risk Education
• Community Liaison in Mine Action
• Monitoring Risk Education
• Emergency Risk Education
• Coordinating Risk Education