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Effective and secure information management tools play a crucial role in improving operations and enabling national responses in mine action. At the forefront of this effort, the GICHD serves as a key provider of information management advisory services and support for explosive ordnance risk reduction. With its mission to equip partner organizations with modern tools and know-how, the GICHD aims to support national authorities in making evidence-based operational and strategic decisions. This is achieved by providing up-to-date, secure and reliable information management systems which compile, store, analyse and share information that is timely and accurate. To ensure these systems are used effectively, the GICHD offers capacity building to align processes, technology and data with skilled personnel.

The GICHD developed the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA), with the latest version named IMSMA CORE. We constantly adapt IMSMA to the latest technological standards to better gather, analyse, and visualize data. To support national authorities and partners at all levels of critical decisions, IMSMA CORE is built by configuring geographic information systems (GIS) tools, primarily from Esri.


Information Management eLearning Modules

Learn  more  about  GIS  and  IMSMA  CORE  through these self-paced online modules and discover that this technology plays an important role in many aspects of our lives. Disaster recovery, environmental management, and peacekeeping operations are just a few uses for geographic information systems. The GICHD and its partners also use GIS to reduce the impact of mines and other explosive ordnances (EOs) throughout the world.

The modules are intended for participants from National Mine Action Programmes and their Operating Partners who are or will be posted to Information Management positions within their respective organisations.

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Guide To Systems Engineering For Humanitarian Information Management

This Guide introduces theoretical and practical methods for using systems engineering to deploy information management systems that support mine action, peace monitoring, disaster risk reduction and other humanitarian initiatives. Systems engineering enables the successful design, deployment, operation and decommissioning of systems.

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History of Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA)

IMSMA was first developed in 1999 and has represented a cornerstone of GICHD’s support to the mine action community ever since. IMSMA was designed specifically to fill a gap in available technical solutions for capturing mine action information and its requirements, at a time when Information Management was heavily underutilized in the sector. 

History of IMSMA

Information Management Team

Steve Hellen

Steve Hellen

Head of Information Management
Anna Paiuc

Anna Paiuc

Programme Officer
Olena Davydenko

Olena Davydenko

Programme Officer
Wendi Pedersen

Wendi Pedersen

GIS Solutions Advisor
Sulaiman Mukahhal

Sulaiman Mukahhal

Advisor, Information Management
Andrew Kesterton

Andrew Kesterton

Technical Development Coordinator
Henrik Rydberg

Henrik Rydberg

Advisor
Harry Kendall

Harry Kendall

Geoservices Technical Advisor
Noor Zangana

Noor Zangana

Advisor
Information Management Advisor

Erkin Huseinov

Information Management Advisor