Explosive ordnance risk reduction (EORR) plays an important enabling and transformative role to create the conditions for sustainable development and peace in today’s rapidly changing world. The landscape of EORR activities has altered with emerging and interconnected challenges, including increasingly protracted conflicts and environmental crises, which call for integrated responses to planning, delivery, and monitoring.
The GICHD has a central role in identifying and strengthening the connections between EORR and broader agendas, particularly those relating to humanitarian action, development, and peace efforts. Alongside its partners, the Centre has conducted studies demonstrating the need to look beyond the re-establishment of safe physical living environments and towards longer-term objectives in the design and delivery of programmes.
By further exploring and reinforcing these interconnections, the Centre aims to leverage the transformative role of EORR, increasing coherence between international and national frameworks, and supporting the realisation of collective outcomes for post-conflict stabilisation, reconstruction, and longer-term development.
Continuous efforts are needed to ensure EORR is more coherently mainstreamed into national sustainable development activities. Therefore, the GICHD continues to support the sector to enhance understanding of the significant linkages between EORR and sustainable development outcomes, with the aim of strengthening effectiveness and efficiency as well as increasing collaborative efforts across the nexus.
The Centre’s innovative and evidence-based research, alongside training and expert advice, supports the sector to align its strategies and action with that of global agendas such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development or the sustaining peace agenda. Mainstreaming EORR activities in broader sustainable development and peace planning can support EORR stakeholders to leverage strategic partnerships and join broader collaborative efforts.
To this effect, the Centre has produced a series of case studies demonstrating the contributions of mine action to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in eight countries including Angola, Jordan, Cambodia, Colombia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Somalia, South Sudan, and Iraq. These studies explore the broader impacts of mine action in the medium and long term by assessing the different contributions of land release, victim assistance, and explosive ordnance risk education to the SDGs. The analysis also examines the importance of gender and diversity mainstreaming efforts as well as collaborative partnerships, both within and beyond the sector, for the overarching principle of ‘leaving no one behind’.
CONTRIBUTION OF MINE ACTION TO THE SDGs BY ACTIVITY IN EIGHT CASE STUDIES
The Goals
SDG by GICHD Activity
Land release
Direct links
- End Extreme Poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic services (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- Reduction of maternal mortality (3.1)
- End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years of age (3.2)
- Access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- Access to housing, transport systems, public spaces (11.1; 11.2; 11.7)
- Safeguard of world heritage (11.4)
- Access to food (2.1)
- End malnutrition (2.2)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
Indirect links
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Full and productive employment and decent work (8.5)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Sustainable management and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems (14.2)
- Access to modern energy (7.1)
- Inclusive, sustainable industrialisation (9.2)
- Integration into value chains and markets (9.3)
- Sustainable resilient infrastructure development (9.a)
- Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources (12.2)
- Restoration of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems, degraded forests, land and soil (15.1; 15.2; 15.3)
Victim assistance
Direct links
- Social protection systems and measures (1.3)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic service (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- Access to education, vocational training for the vulnerable (4.5)
- Disability-sensitive education facilities (4.a)
- Equitable access to infrastructure (9.1)
- Inclusive, participatory, representative decision-making (16.7)
- Non-discriminatory laws and policies (16.b)
- Universal health coverage, access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- Full and productive employment, decent work for persons with disabilities (8.5)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- No targets for this goal
Indirect links
- Access by all to safe, nutritious and sufficient food (2.1)
- Universal, equitable access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- End discrimination against women and girls (5.1)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- Affordable transport systems with special attention to persons with disabilities (11.2)
- Universal access to public spaces (11.7)
Gender mainstreaming in mine action
Direct links
- End discrimination against women (5.1)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- Reforms for women’s equal rights to economic resources, access to ownership (5.a)
- Policies and legislation to promote gender equality and empowerment of women (5.c)
- Non-discriminatory laws and policies (16.b)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
Indirect links
- End extreme poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- End hunger (2.1)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
Risk Education
Direct links
- End extreme poverty (1.1)
- Reduction of poverty (1.2)
- Equal rights, access to economic resources and basic services (1.4)
- Improved resilience, reduced vulnerability (1.5)
- Reduction of maternal mortality (3.1)
- End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years of age (3.2)
- Access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- Access to safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (6.1; 6.2)
- Reduction of all forms of violence (16.1)
- Access to food (2.1)
- End malnutrition (2.2)
- Double agricultural productivity (2.3)
- Reduction of maternal mortality (3.1)
- End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years of age (3.2)
- Access to essential, sexual, reproductive healthcare services (3.7; 3.8)
- Access to housing, transport systems, public spaces (11.1; 11.2; 11.7)
Indirect links
- End discrimination against women and girls (5.1)
- Elimination of violence against women and girls (5.2)
- Women’s full and effective participation (5.5)
- Income growth of bottom 40 per cent of population (10.1)
- Social, economic, political inclusion (10.2)
- Equal opportunities, reduction of inequalities (10.3)
- Economic growth (8.1)
- Full and productive employment and decent work (8.5)
- Sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources (12.2)
Stockpile destruction and PSSM
Direct links
No goals
Indirect links
- Elimination of violence against women and girls (5.2)
- Women's full and effective participation (5.5)
- Reduction of violence and illicit arms flows (16.1; 16.4)
Capacity development and partnership
Direct links
- Financial flows to States where need is greatest (10.b)
- Access to science, innovation, technology, financial resources and knowledge through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation (17.6; 17.16)
- Effective public, public-private, civil society partnerships (17.17)
- Capacity-building support to increase availability of high-quality, timely, reliable, disaggregated data (17.18)
- Effective, accountable, transparent institutions (16.6)
- Inclusive, participatory, representative decision-making (16.7)
- Participation of developing countries in institutions of global governance (16.8)
Indirect links
No goals