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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...

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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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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...

- Available in English
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...

- Available in English
Mine Action and the Resilience of Communities to Climate Change
Climate resilience – the ability or capacities of populations to cope with and respond to climate change-related hazards – has gained increased attention in recent years, including in the mine action sector. Why? 60 per cent of...

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Gender Equality & Inclusion Annual Report 2021
Over the last several years, the GICHD has taken continual steps to promote gender equality and inclusion, both internally and in its external work.In 2021, the GICHD adopted the Gender Equality and Inclusion Action Plan (GDAP)...

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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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Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining | Twenty Years of Supporting Mine Action
This book was published on the anniversary of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining's 20th anniversary. In 1997, at the adoption of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC), Switzerland announced its...

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The Challenge of Long term Risk Management in Mine Action
This article briefly explores how states affected by landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) are faced with a number of difficult decisions when they establish their mine action program.

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The Collaborative ORDnance Data Repository (CORD)
This article briefly explores The Collaborative ORDnance Data Repository (CORD) that has been in existence since 2015. A database of over 5,000 entries detailing a wide range of explosive ordnance.

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Improvised Explosive Devices and the International Mine Action Standards
This article briefly explores how improvised explosive devices (IED) are not new in mine action; they have contributed to explosive ordnance contamination in post-conflict settings since the advent of humanitarian demining almost...

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