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Innovative Finance for Mine Action: Needs and Potential Solutions

The mine action sector faces not only chronic underfunding but also short-lived funding spikes for emerging or new crises, or significant developments in ongoing conflicts. These trends surrounding funding lead to a lack of both...

29/04/2024
Innovative Finance for Mine Action: Needs and Potential Solutions
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  • GICHD and Symbio Impact Ltd.
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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...

02/04/2024
South Sudan National Mine Action Strategy 2024-2028
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  • GICHD
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The Sustainable Development Outcomes of Mine Action in Cambodia

The study comprehensively maps the sustainable development outcomes of mine action activities in Cambodia, using the SDGs as an analytical framework. It analyses and illustrates with concrete examples the impact of mine action...

02/03/2022
The Sustainable Development Outcomes of Mine Action in Cambodia
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  • GICHD
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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...

13/01/2022
Linking Mine Action and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lao PDR
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  • GICHD
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Field Trials of the SMART System and Technical Survey Dogs in Cambodia
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  • GICHD
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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...

16/12/2021
Chapter 5 of the IED Clearance Good Practice Guide, “Basic Chemistry of Explosives and Hazards of Home-Made Explosives and Chemical Precursors"
  • Available in English
  • GICHD
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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...

15/12/2021
GUIDE TO EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE POLLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
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  • GICHD
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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...

20/10/2021
AMAT Insights Issue 2 Version 3 of the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines (IATG)
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  • AMAT, UN SaferGuard
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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...

23/09/2021
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
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  • Roly Evans [GICHD] and David Hewitson [Fenix Insight Ltd.]