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Zimbabwe is on track to developing its first national mine action strategy. Following a very successful workshop facilitated by the GICHD and the Zimbabwe Mine Action Centre (ZIMAC) in Harare between 13-16 December, a combination...

A new publication to advise and assist national authorities in the development of their National Mine Action Standards (NMAS) has just been published by the GICHD.

National Mine Action Standards (NMAS) are issued by a national...

The new IMAS 07.12 on quality management in mine action has been adopted by the IMAS Review Board. It has now been published for public review as a “draft edition” pending the UN-IACG endorsement.

The draft standard adopts...

A workshop on the application of International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) is currently taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This five-day workshop has been organised at the request of the Centre de Entrenamiento en Desminado...

The IMAS review board has approved a new version of the International Mine Action Standards 09.30 on Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and a Test and Evaluation Protocol (T&EP) 09.30/01/2014 on EOD competency standards.

The...

Following the request of the mine action community, the GICHD conducted a three-day International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) Training in Geneva from 18 to 20 November 2014.  This training provided an overview of the...

The International Mine Action Standards website has been restructured. One significant improvement is that visitors can now access and download the standards and their translations in Word version. The standards in Word version...