Publications

In 2001 the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament adopted two Regulations on the reinforcement of the EU response against Antipersonnel Landmines (APL). These (referred to collectively as “the Regulation”) laid the...

The main purposes of this report are to (i) advise CIDA/ATF on what it should expect from the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in terms of reporting on development results, and (ii) assess feasible timelines and approaches for the...

This study by the Gender and Mine Action Programme of the Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines is the first comprehensive study presenting arguments on the importance of gender considerations in mine action and looking at how gender...

 Annual narrative report on the work of the GICHD during 2007.Available in French and German  

 Over the past 20 years, mine action has developed rapidly as a specific sector of expertise within broader relief and development efforts. This third edition of A Guide to Mine Action and Explosive Remnants of War has been...

Annual narrative report on the work of the GICHD during 2006.Available in French and German 

Certainly, the international mine action community has learned a great deal over the past 15 years. However, has mine action really made a significant, long‐term difference to the lives of the people it is trying to help? For few...

The GICHD has been working to turn the concept of regional information management upside-down and give field programmes the tools and assistance they need to manage information locally. Focused on consolidating and sharing...

This study seeks to determine the comparative advantages of the use of serving military in mine action programmes. The study considers a range of operational mine action tasks (survey, marking, mapping, clearance, stockpile...