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South Sudan National Mine Action Strategy 2024-2028
South Sudan’s national mine action strategy presents the strategic direction for its mine action programme for the period 2024 – 2028. Its purpose is to provide accountability, clarity, and a shared sense of strategic orientation...
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Inclusive Data Management in the Mine Action Sector
At the GICHD, we are challenging how data practices in the mine action sector address gender, diversity, and equality, through a comprehensive exploration of interpretations of gender, diversity, and the do no harm principle...
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Review of New Technologies and Methodologies for EORE in Challenging Contexts | Russian Version
21/01/2022
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Review of New Technologies and Methodologies for (EORE) in Challenging Contexts | Arabic Version
13/01/2022
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Linking Mine Action and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lao PDR
Through case studies in two countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lao PDR, this study examines the extent to which mine action efforts have been incorporated into national development planning. Likewise, it analyses the experience...
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Chapter 5 of the IED Clearance Good Practice Guide, “Basic Chemistry of Explosives and Hazards of Home-Made Explosives and Chemical Precursors"
The GICHD has developed this Chapter with the aim of improving the safety of mine action personnel as a first priority, but also ensuring that mine action programmes are dealing with this particular threat effectively to keep...
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GUIDE TO EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE POLLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Mine action survey and clearance operations have always focused on the contamination that can be seen. Whether it is anti-personnel (AP) mines, anti-vehicles (AV) mines, or explosive remnants of war (ERW), our efforts focus on...
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AMAT Insights Issue 2 Version 3 of the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines (IATG)
In 2011, the United Nations released the first version of the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines (IATG) providing states with voluntary guidance on best practices and international standards in ammunition management to...
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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Land Release and Stockpile Destruction Operations – Notes on a New Technical Note for Mine Action | The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction. Issue 25.1
The purpose of this article is to set out why the Technical Note for Mine Action (TNMA) was developed and explain certain aspects of its content, particularly those where prolonged debate was necessary in order to achieve...
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Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence in the Mine Action Sector | The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction. Issue 25.1
Remote sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are included in discussions of how technology and innovation can improve humanitarian action and international peacekeeping. These technologies have the potential to...
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